YouTube Channel Info and Stats Scraper

Extracts detailed channel information and statistics from YouTube channel About pages — subscriber count, total views, video count, joined date, country, avatar, and external links. Give it channel URLs directly, or search queries to discover channels from matching videos, and get clean structured data in return. Set a project name to return only unique channels across runs, skipping ones already scraped before using our own cache.

Target website: YouTube

💰 Pricing

Pricing	Free	Business
Results	0.80/1,000	0.60/1,000

⚖️ Legality of this actor

This actor only collects data that is already publicly visible on YouTube channel About pages — no login, paywall, or private content is accessed. Scraping publicly available data is generally considered legal, as established in hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn. You are responsible for complying with YouTube's Terms of Service and any applicable data protection laws (e.g. GDPR/CCPA) when using the extracted data, particularly if it includes personal information.

💡 Use Case

Marketers, researchers, and creators who need reliable channel-level metrics — subscriber counts, view totals, and growth signals — without manually opening dozens of YouTube pages or hitting API quota limits.

📤 Output

Structured JSON dataset (exportable to CSV/Excel) containing one record per channel with fields such as channel name, handle, URL, description, subscriber/view/video counts, joined date, country, avatar, and external links.

✨ Features

• Channel info & stats extraction — subscriber count, view count, video count, joined date, country, avatar, description, and external links
• Search-based channel discovery — find and scrape channels whose videos match a search query
• Pagination support — automatically loads further search results to reach the requested number of channels per query
• Proxy support — optional proxy configuration for large-scale or high-volume runs
• Cross-run caching — set a project name to skip channels already scraped in a previous run, so repeated runs only return new channels

🔧 Input Configuration

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
startUrls	Array	—	—	YouTube channel URLs to scrape (any form: @handle, /channel/UCxxx, /c/name)
searchQueries	Array	—	—	Search terms; channels whose videos appear in results are discovered and scraped
maxChannelsPerQuery	Integer	—	10	Maximum number of unique channels to discover and scrape per search query
projectName	String	—	—	Channels already scraped under this project name in a previous run are skipped on later runs, so repeated runs only collect new channels. Leave empty to disable caching.
proxyConfiguration	Object	—	No proxy	Proxy settings for the run

Supported URL types:

• https://www.youtube.com/@handle
• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxxxxxxxx
• https://www.youtube.com/c/ChannelName

📦 Output

The dataset has 1 view — Channel info and stats — showing channel name, handle, URL, subscriber/view/video counts, joined date, country, avatar, and the search query that found the channel (if applicable).

Sample output:

[
    {
        "channelId": "UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ",
        "channelName": "Marques Brownlee",
        "handle": "@mkbhd",
        "channelUrl": "http://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd",
        "description": "MKBHD: Quality Tech Videos | YouTuber | Geek | Consumer Electronics | Tech Head | Internet Personality!\n\nbusiness@MKBHD.com\n\nNYC",
        "subscriberCount": 21200000,
        "viewCount": 5550015388,
        "videoCount": 1844,
        "joinedDate": "2008-03-21",
        "country": "United States",
        "avatarUrl": "https://yt3.googleusercontent.com/qu4TmIaYUlS41-dJ9gZ7DUR3nilvmB5_11i6OKSdvNnBNiyOusZP1bMN6ICnuxtjFBb6ioKgRQ=s900-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj",
        "externalLinks": [
            "twitter.com/MKBHD",
            "instagram.com/MKBHD",
            "youtube.com/c/TheStudio",
            "reddit.com/r/MKBHD",
            "discord.gg/MKBHD"
        ],
        "isFamilySafe": true,
        "keywords": "MKBHD MarquesBrownlee Marques Brownlee",
        "foundViaQuery": null
    }
]

💡 Uses of This Data

• Benchmarking subscriber and view growth across competitor or industry channels
• Building influencer/creator shortlists filtered by subscriber count or country
• Tracking channel metrics over time for market research or reporting
• Enriching CRM or marketing datasets with up-to-date channel statistics
• Discovering active channels in a niche via search-based scraping

🚀 How to Use

1. Sign up for a free Apify account — includes $5 monthly credit.
2. Open the actor page and click Try for free.
3. Fill in the Input fields — provide channel URLs, search queries, or both.
4. Click Start and wait for the run to complete.
5. Download results from the Output tab in JSON, CSV, or Excel format.

You can also run this actor via the Apify API or integrate it directly into your workflows using Zapier, Make, or n8n.

📝 Notes

• Proxy recommended for large-scale scraping — For high-volume runs, enable the Apify Residential or Datacenter proxy to avoid blocks.
• API integration — This actor can be called as an API from any automation platform (Zapier, Make, n8n, custom scripts).

🏭 Industry

Media & Entertainment, Marketing & Advertising, Market Research, Influencer Marketing

🌐 Domain

Social media / video platform data extraction (YouTube)

🏷️ Label

youtube, channel-scraper, youtube-stats, subscriber-count, social-media-data, video-platform

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