YouTube Channel Uploads & RSS Exporter

Export the latest public uploads from YouTube channels as clean dataset rows. Supply channel IDs, @handles, channel URLs, or YouTube feed URLs and receive recent videos and Shorts with titles, dates, descriptions, thumbnails, URLs, view counts, and channel metadata.

No YouTube account, login, cookie, API key, proxy, or browser automation is required.

Start in 30 seconds

1. Add one or more public YouTube channels.
2. Choose whether to include videos, Shorts, or both.
3. Optionally set a publishedAfter date.
4. Click Start and export the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, HTML, or RSS.

{
  "channels": [
    "UCsXVk37bltHxD1rDPwtNM8Q",
    "@kurzgesagt"
  ],
  "maxVideosPerChannel": 15,
  "maxItems": 100,
  "shortsMode": "all",
  "publishedAfter": "2026-09-01"
}

What each result contains

• Video and channel IDs
• Channel and video titles
• Published and updated timestamps
• Direct video or Short URL
• Thumbnail URL and feed description
• Public view and rating data when the feed provides it
• Original input and canonical feed URL for traceability

{
  "videoId": "NIifnIP_NnQ",
  "channelId": "UCsXVk37bltHxD1rDPwtNM8Q",
  "channelTitle": "Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell",
  "title": "How ADHD Medication Works",
  "publishedAt": "2026-09-05T14:00:06+00:00",
  "videoUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NIifnIP_NnQ",
  "isShort": true,
  "thumbnailUrl": "https://i3.ytimg.com/vi/NIifnIP_NnQ/hqdefault.jpg",
  "views": 123456
}

Accepted channel inputs

• Channel ID: UCsXVk37bltHxD1rDPwtNM8Q
• Handle: @kurzgesagt
• Channel URL: https://www.youtube.com/@kurzgesagt
• ID URL: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsXVk37bltHxD1rDPwtNM8Q
• Feed URL: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCsXVk37bltHxD1rDPwtNM8Q

Only public youtube.com inputs are accepted. Other hosts are rejected before any request, which prevents the Actor from being used as a general URL fetcher.

Useful workflows

• Monitor creator uploads without maintaining a YouTube API project
• Feed new videos into n8n, Make, Zapier, Sheets, databases, or AI pipelines
• Track competitors or a portfolio of channels on an Apify schedule
• Separate Shorts from long-form uploads
• Build a lightweight video-news or creator-research feed

Reliability and limits

The Actor reads YouTube's public Atom feeds over HTTP, retries temporary failures, respects 429 Too Many Requests responses, and uses limited Apify permissions. One invalid channel does not stop the rest of a batch; optional error rows identify failures without charging a result event.

YouTube public feeds normally expose only the 15 most recent uploads for each channel. This Actor does not search historical videos, download media, retrieve comments, or access private channel data. Handle and vanity-URL inputs require one extra public page request to resolve the channel ID.

Pricing

The planned launch price is $0.001 per successful video result ($1 per 1,000 results) with platform usage included. Error rows are not charged. The final Store price will be confirmed after a capped cloud cost test.

Data source and affiliation

This independent community Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by YouTube or Google. It reads public YouTube channel feeds and returns the metadata those feeds expose. Users remain responsible for their downstream use of the data.