YouTube Channels Scraper

A powerful tool for extracting detailed channel information from YouTube.

Checkout our other YouTube Scrapers: YouTube Comments | YouTube Videos

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Supply channel handles, URLs or IDs and receive structured JSON data.

🎯 Features

Multiple Input Formats Supported:

• Channel handle: "@SailingLaVagabonde"
• Channel URL: "youtube.com/channel/@SailingLaVagabonde"
• Channel ID URL: "youtube.com/channel/UCZdQjaSoLjIzFnWsDQOv4ww"
• Channel ID: "UCZdQjaSoLjIzFnWsDQOv4ww"

Comprehensive Channel Data:

• Basic Information

  • Title and description
  • Custom URL
  • Publication date
  • Country and language

• Channel Statistics

  • View count
  • Subscriber count
  • Video count
  • Hidden subscriber status

• Branding Details

  • Keywords
  • Default language
  • Country settings
  • Thumbnail URLs

• Channel Status

  • Privacy settings
  • Link status
  • Upload capabilities
  • Made for kids status

Use cases

• Channel research — compare channel descriptions, topics and statistics.
• Creator discovery — collect information about a supplied list of creators.
• Channel monitoring — compare subscriber, view and video counts across runs.
• Content research — examine channel topics, keywords and branding.

🚀 Getting started

1. Create or sign in to your Apify account.
2. Enter channel handles, channel URLs or channel IDs.
3. Run the Actor and collect your data.

📥 Input format

{
  "channels": [
    "@SailingLaVagabonde",
    "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZdQjaSoLjIzFnWsDQOv4ww"
  ]
}

📤 Output format

Channel data is returned as structured JSON. Example:

{
  "channelId": "UCZdQjaSoLjIzFnWsDQOv4ww",
  "title": "Sailing La Vagabonde",
  "description": "We're a sailing channel documenting our journey...",
  "customUrl": "@SailingLaVagabonde",
  "publishedAt": "2014-08-19T02:27:29Z",
  "viewCount": 298051885,
  "subscriberCount": 1520000,
  "videoCount": 358,
  "hiddenSubscriberCount": false,
  "keywords": "sailing,travel,adventure,family,ocean",
  "country": "AU",
  "privacyStatus": "public",
  "isLinked": true,
  "longUploadsStatus": "eligible",
  "madeForKids": false,
  "topicCategories": [
    "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travel",
    "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailing"
  ],
  "thumbnails": {
    "default": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/...",
    "medium": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/...",
    "high": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/..."
  }
}

Statistics are sample values, and description and thumbnail URLs are abbreviated. Actual results contain the values available when the Actor runs.

AI agents and integrations

Connect chat clients such as Claude and ChatGPT to Apify through the Apify MCP server to discover and run eligible Actors.

Structured records let agents work directly with channel IDs, descriptions and statistics.

Example requests for an agent configured to use this Actor:

Collect channel information and subscriber counts for these YouTube handles.

Return descriptions, video counts and topic categories for these channel IDs.

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✏️ API access

Access through Apify's API and automation features:

• REST API
• SDK integration
• Webhooks
• Automated workflows

For setup and reference documentation, see the Apify API documentation. For workflow automation, see the n8n integration guide.

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