YouTube Music Profile Scraper 🎵

Extract detailed information about YouTube Music channel profiles based on your search keywords. This actor helps you discover and collect data about music-related channels, artists, and profiles on YouTube Music.

🎯 Use Cases

• Music industry research and analysis
• Artist discovery and profiling
• Competitive analysis for music channels
• Building music channel databases
• Marketing research for music industry

✨ Features

• 🔍 Search-based profile extraction
• 📊 Detailed channel information
• 🖼️ Multiple thumbnail resolutions
• ⚡ Fast and efficient scraping
• 🔄 Automatic pagination handling
• 🎨 Clean, structured output

🔢 Output Dataset

Each record in the output dataset includes:

• Channel name
• Channel ID
• Channel handle (@username)
• Channel URL
• Profile type
• Thumbnail images in multiple sizes
• Scraping timestamp
• Search keyword used

💡 Input Parameters

• keywords: Array of search terms to find music profiles
• maxItems: Maximum number of profiles to scrape (default: 50)

📝 Note

This actor is designed for research and analysis purposes. Please ensure you comply with YouTube Music's terms of service when using this actor.

Input Example

A full explanation of an input example in JSON.

1{
2    "keywords": [
3        "love"
4    ],
5    "maxItems": 70
6}

Output sample

The results will be wrapped into a dataset which you can always find in the Storage tab. Here's an excerpt from the data you'd get if you apply the input parameters above:

And here is the same data but in JSON. You can choose in which format to download your data: JSON, JSONL, Excel spreadsheet, HTML table, CSV, or XML.

1[
2    {
3        "keyword": "love",
4        "data": {
5            "channelName": "Oasis Of Love Community Church",
6            "channelId": "UCblGrN2PL5JvN05EGSjbULw",
7            "channelHandle": "@LoveOasis",
8            "thumbnails": [
9                {
10                    "url": "https://yt3.googleusercontent.com/ytc/AIdro_lGToocwOmLeza7sHIWsacmQb7xQGVj6Zf0OHaS--FDl3Y=w60-c-h60-k-c0x00ffffff-no-l90-rj",
11                    "width": 60,
12                    "height": 60
13                },
14                {
15                    "url": "https://yt3.googleusercontent.com/ytc/AIdro_lGToocwOmLeza7sHIWsacmQb7xQGVj6Zf0OHaS--FDl3Y=w120-c-h120-k-c0x00ffffff-no-l90-rj",
16                    "width": 120,
17                    "height": 120
18                }
19            ],
20            "type": "Profile",
21            "channelUrl": "https://music.youtube.com/channel/UCblGrN2PL5JvN05EGSjbULw"
22        },
23        "scrapedAt": "2025-02-10T00:56:17.248Z"
24    },
25    ...
26]