# Social Blade Creator Analytics Scraper (`fanndev/socialblade-creator-analytics-scraper`) Actor

Extract creator statistics from Social Blade for YouTube, TikTok, Twitch and Instagram -- subscribers/followers, views, video counts, country and category, Social Blade ranks, and 15 days of daily history. Plus the YouTube top-creator leaderboard. No account or API key needed.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/fanndev/socialblade-creator-analytics-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Faisal Ahdan naufal](https://apify.com/fanndev) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $5.00 / 1,000 results

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Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

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# README

## Social Blade Creator Analytics Scraper

Extract creator statistics from **Social Blade** for YouTube, TikTok, Twitch and Instagram — audience size, ranks, and 15 days of daily history. No account, login, or API key needed.

### Why use this actor

- **Four platforms, one output shape** — YouTube, TikTok, Twitch and Instagram creators through the same input
- **Daily history, not just a snapshot** — up to 15 days of subscriber/follower, view, like and video counts per creator, so you can chart growth without waiting to accumulate it yourself
- **Every Social Blade rank** — overall rank plus per-metric ranks (subscribers, views, country, category on YouTube; followers, likes, videos on TikTok; engagement rate on Instagram)
- **Creator context** — account creation date, country, content category, channel description, and the creator's links to their other platforms
- **YouTube leaderboard** in one call — the top creators with subscribers, views and country
- **Exact-address handling** — a Social Blade address is fetched exactly as given, because `/user/x`, `/c/x` and `/@x` are *different* YouTube channels; guessing between them silently returns the wrong creator
- Stable JSON output with automatic retries — no scrapers or browsers to babysit

### How it works

Pick a `mode`:

1. **`profile`** — statistics, ranks and daily history for one or more handles on the platform you choose (or full Social Blade addresses, which carry their own platform).
2. **`top`** — the YouTube top-creator leaderboard.

### Input

**One creator:**

```json
{
  "mode": "profile",
  "platform": "youtube",
  "handle": "pewdiepie",
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"] }
}
```

**A batch across platforms** (addresses override the default platform):

```json
{
  "mode": "profile",
  "platform": "tiktok",
  "handles": [
    "charlidamelio",
    "https://socialblade.com/youtube/@MrBeast",
    "https://socialblade.com/twitch/user/ninja"
  ],
  "maxConcurrency": 4
}
```

**Leaderboard:**

```json
{ "mode": "top", "topSize": 100, "maxItems": 100 }
```

| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `mode` | string | `profile` or `top`. |
| `platform` | string | `youtube`, `tiktok`, `twitch`, or `instagram`. |
| `handle` / `handles` | string / array | Creator handle(s) or full Social Blade addresses. |
| `topSize` | integer | `top` mode: `100` or `500` (both return 100 rows). |
| `maxItems` | integer | `top` mode: rows to keep (max 100). |
| `maxConcurrency` | integer | Creators fetched in parallel (default 4). |
| `proxyConfiguration` | object | Apify Proxy settings; Residential on by default. |

### Output

**`profile` mode, YouTube** — real output, arrays truncated:

```json
{
  "_input": "pewdiepie",
  "_source": "S1-ssr",
  "_scrapedAt": "2026-09-08T07:10:00Z",
  "recordType": "CREATOR_PROFILE",
  "platform": "youtube",
  "id": "UC-lHJZR3Gqxm24_Vd_AJ5Yw",
  "displayName": "PewDiePie",
  "createdAt": "2010-04-29T00:00:00.000Z",
  "country": "JP",
  "channelType": "entertainment",
  "subscribers": 109000000,
  "views": "29519305767",
  "videos": 4665,
  "ranks": { "sb": 124024, "subscribers": 16, "views": 179, "country": 1, "category": 7 },
  "socials": [{ "url": "https://instagram.com/pewdiepie", "title": "IG" }, "… 2 more"],
  "history": [
    { "date": "2026-08-25T00:00:00.000Z", "subscribers": 110000000, "views": 29514832850, "videos": 4665 },
    "… 14 more"
  ],
  "historyDays": 15
}
```

**`profile` mode, TikTok** — the metric set follows the platform:

```json
{
  "platform": "tiktok",
  "displayName": "charli d’amelio",
  "videos": 3242,
  "ranks": { "sb": 9965, "followers": 2, "likes": 2, "videos": 7206 },
  "history": [{ "date": "2026-08-25T00:00:00.000Z", "followers": 159200000, "following": 1439, "likes": 12300000000, "videos": 3229 }],
  "historyDays": 15
}
```

**`top` mode:**

```json
{ "recordType": "TOP_CREATOR", "listRank": 1, "displayName": "MrBeast", "subscribers": 516000000, "country": "US" }
```

| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `recordType` | string | `CREATOR_PROFILE` or `TOP_CREATOR`. |
| `platform` | string | Which platform the record is from. |
| `id` / `displayName` | string | Native platform ID and creator name. |
| `createdAt` / `country` / `channelType` | string | Account age, country, content category. |
| `subscribers` / `views` / `videos` | integer / string | Audience and output counts (present per platform). |
| `ranks` | object | Overall Social Blade rank plus per-metric ranks. |
| `socials` | array | The creator's links to other platforms. |
| `history` / `historyDays` | array / integer | Up to 15 daily rows. |
| `listRank` | integer | `top` mode position. |
| `_error` / `_errorDetail` | string | Present only when a creator could not be fetched. |

### Notes & limits

- **Metrics differ by platform, deliberately.** YouTube gives subscribers/views/videos, TikTok gives followers/likes/videos, Twitch gives followers, Instagram gives followers and engagement rate. Fields are passed through as published rather than forced into one shape.
- **Instagram profiles carry no daily history** in the public page — the account record comes through, `history` is empty.
- **Facebook is not supported**: those profile addresses return 404 upstream, so it is left out rather than shipped as a mode that always fails.
- **Audience counts are rounded** by the source (109,000,000 rather than an exact figure); the daily history rows are the finer-grained series.
- **The leaderboard returns 100 rows per run.** `topSize: 500` is accepted upstream but still serves 100 creators per request.
- Counts are point-in-time; schedule the actor if you want a longer series than the 15 days each run carries.

# Actor input Schema

## `mode` (type: `string`):

"profile" fetches creator statistics, ranks and daily history for one or more handles. "top" fetches the YouTube top-creator leaderboard.

## `platform` (type: `string`):

"profile" mode: which platform the handles belong to. A full Social Blade address overrides this per item. Facebook is not offered because its profile pages return 404 upstream.

## `handle` (type: `string`):

"profile" mode: a creator handle (e.g. "pewdiepie", or "@MrBeast") or a full Social Blade address. Addresses are fetched exactly as given -- on YouTube, /user/x, /c/x and /@x are different channels.

## `handles` (type: `array`):

"profile" mode: several creators to fetch in one run.

## `topSize` (type: `integer`):

"top" mode: which YouTube leaderboard page to read. Only 100 and 500 are accepted upstream (50 and 250 return an error); both return 100 creators per request. Any other value is rejected by the actor before a request is made.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

"top" mode: how many leaderboard rows to keep (upstream serves at most 100 per request).

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

"profile" mode: how many creators to fetch in parallel.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Apify Proxy configuration. Residential is on by default and recommended for larger batches.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "profile",
  "platform": "youtube",
  "handle": "pewdiepie",
  "topSize": 100,
  "maxItems": 100,
  "maxConcurrency": 4,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

All creator / leaderboard records produced by this run.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "mode": "profile",
    "platform": "youtube",
    "handle": "pewdiepie",
    "topSize": 100,
    "maxItems": 100,
    "maxConcurrency": 4,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ]
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("fanndev/socialblade-creator-analytics-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "mode": "profile",
    "platform": "youtube",
    "handle": "pewdiepie",
    "topSize": 100,
    "maxItems": 100,
    "maxConcurrency": 4,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("fanndev/socialblade-creator-analytics-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "mode": "profile",
  "platform": "youtube",
  "handle": "pewdiepie",
  "topSize": 100,
  "maxItems": 100,
  "maxConcurrency": 4,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}' |
apify call fanndev/socialblade-creator-analytics-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,fanndev/socialblade-creator-analytics-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/ni9dY4IrT9Qkbu9Tf/builds/RpWPUs4P2qLWvHD0e/openapi.json