YouTube Channels Scraper — compare view velocity

Put several YouTube channels side by side and get one row per channel, ranked by how fast they are actually growing right now.

Total view counts tell you who has been around longest. They do not tell you who is winning this month. This Actor ranks on view velocity instead, so a channel that started last year can outrank one with a decade of back catalogue.

What you get per channel

Field	Example
velocityRank	1
channelName, channelId, input	as given and as resolved
medianViews, maxViews	6867, 41000
medianViewsPerDay	1140
medianLikeRate	0.0286
topShare	0.37
uploadIntervalDays	3.5
latestVideoAt, daysSinceLastVideo	ISO 8601, 2.1
videos, videosWithStats	15, 15

velocityRank is ordered by medianViewsPerDay, not by total views. Channels with no readable statistics get null rather than a rank, so they sink to the bottom instead of pretending to be last place.

uploadIntervalDays is the median gap between uploads. Median, not mean: a single long hiatus wrecks a mean and makes a weekly channel look bimonthly.

topShare is the share of views held by the top 10% of that channel's recent videos. High means the channel is riding one hit; low means it performs consistently. Two channels with the same median can be very different businesses.

daysSinceLastVideo exists so you can drop dormant channels from a comparison rather than reading them as "slow".

Summary (key-value store, BENCHMARK_SUMMARY)

channels, channelsWithData, medianOfMedianViewsPerDay, fastest, and stale — the channels with no upload in over 30 days.

Input

{
  "channels": ["@mkbhd", "@LinusTechTips", "@MrBeast"]
}

Channel IDs (UC...), @handles, channel URLs, and playlist IDs (PL...) are all accepted.

Two or more channels are required. One channel is not a comparison, and the run is rejected rather than returning a single row that answers nothing. If you want the video list for one channel, use YouTube Channel Scraper instead.

Scope and limits — please read

Each channel's numbers are computed from the 15 most recent videos that the public feed exposes. That is deliberately a recent-form measure, not a lifetime average — it is what makes the comparison about now rather than about history. It is not a full-catalogue analysis and should not be used as one.

Channels with no videos are still returned as a row, with counts at zero. They are not silently dropped, so you can tell "dormant" apart from "you typed the handle wrong".

Statistics the feed does not carry are returned as null, never 0.

This Actor reads YouTube's own public feed endpoint. It does not log in, does not use your account, and does not touch pages that require a session.

Pricing

Charged per channel, not per video — one request covers a whole channel, and the price reflects that.

Disclaimer

This is an unofficial tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by YouTube or Google. "YouTube" is a trademark of Google LLC and is used here only to describe what this Actor reads. You are responsible for ensuring your use of the collected data complies with applicable law and with YouTube's terms.