YouTube Channel Scraper | Videos, Shorts, Lives

Scrape YouTube channels: every video, Short and live stream with title, URL, views, duration and upload date, plus channel info: subscribers, total views, video count, joined date, country, external links, description and keywords. Sort by latest, popular or oldest, filter by date, and optionally load exact likes, comment counts, publish dates, descriptions and hashtags for each video.

• $0.70 per 1,000 videos (exact details +$0.50 per 1,000). Channel info rows are free.
• Input: @handle, https://www.youtube.com/@name, /channel/UC..., /c/name, /user/name or a channel ID.
• Whole channels: all pages of the Videos, Shorts and Live tabs.
• No API key or quota, no browser, 256 MB, fast (about 30 videos per request).
• Unknown or terminated channels produce free status rows; the run never fails because of one bad input.

Use cases

• Influencer discovery and vetting: subscribers, upload frequency, views per video, top videos.
• Competitor tracking: schedule with onlyVideosNewerThan to get every new upload.
• Content strategy / SEO: which titles, lengths and topics get the most views (sort by popular).
• Analytics dashboards and AI: complete video lists with stats for Sheets, BI tools or LLMs.

Input

Field	Description
channels	Handles, channel URLs or IDs
contentTypes	videos, shorts, streams
maxVideosPerChannel	Per tab, default 50, 0 = all
sortBy	latest, popular, oldest
onlyVideosNewerThan	Date filter
videoDetails	Exact publish date, views, likes, comments, description, hashtags
includeChannelInfo	Free channel row

Keywords, category and exact duration come from YouTube's player data, which YouTube sometimes withholds. When that happens those fields are null; publish date, views, likes, comment count, description, hashtags and channel subscribers still come from the watch page (detailsSource: "watch-page").

{
  "channels": ["@MrBeast", "https://www.youtube.com/@Apify"],
  "contentTypes": ["videos", "shorts"],
  "maxVideosPerChannel": 100,
  "sortBy": "latest",
  "videoDetails": true
}

Output

Video row (with videoDetails on):

{
  "type": "video",
  "videoId": "0e3GPea1Tyg",
  "title": "$456,000 Squid Game In Real Life!",
  "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e3GPea1Tyg",
  "contentType": "videos",
  "channelName": "MrBeast",
  "channelId": "UCX6OQ3DkcsbYNE6H8uQQuVA",
  "viewCount": 976262034,
  "likeCount": 20000000,
  "commentCount": 660000,
  "publishedAt": "2021-11-24T13:00:01-08:00",
  "durationSec": 1541,
  "category": "Entertainment",
  "keywords": [],
  "thumbnailUrl": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/0e3GPea1Tyg/maxresdefault.jpg"
}

Channel row:

{
  "type": "channel",
  "channelId": "UCX6OQ3DkcsbYNE6H8uQQuVA",
  "title": "MrBeast",
  "handle": "@MrBeast",
  "subscriberCount": 522000000,
  "videoCount": 1000,
  "viewCount": 143605351979,
  "joinedDate": "2012-02-19",
  "country": "United States",
  "links": [{ "title": "Instagram", "url": "https://instagram.com/mrbeast" }]
}

Without videoDetails, views and dates come from the channel grid: views are rounded ("110M") and dates relative ("3 days ago", also converted to publishedAtApprox).

Not affiliated with YouTube or Google.

Pricing

Pay per event: $0.0007 per video ($0.70 per 1,000). Exact likes, comments and publish dates (videoDetails) add $0.0005 per video. Channel info rows are free. Set a maximum cost per run and the Actor stops there.

FAQ

Do I need a YouTube API key? No. Input can be @handle, a channel URL or a channel ID. The Actor is not affiliated with YouTube or Google.

Can I get only new uploads? Set onlyVideosNewerThan and schedule the run. Older videos are skipped.

What does the first run return? The saved example reads @MrBeast videos and returns real public video rows plus a channel info row.