
Youtube User / Channel Scraper
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Youtube User / Channel Scraper
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You can use this collector to automatically collect information about YouTube bloggers, such as nickname, avatar, country, introduction, joining time, number of videos, number of views, number of fans, etc. You only need to determine the urls and ids or channel ids
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Created in Feb 2024
Modified a month ago
You can access the Youtube User / Channel Scraper programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.
1# Start Server-Sent Events (SSE) session and keep it running
2curl "https://actors-mcp-server.apify.actor/sse?token=<YOUR_API_TOKEN>&actors=gentle_cloud/youtube-user-channel-scraper"
3
4# Session id example output:
5# event: endpoint
6# data: /message?sessionId=9d820491-38d4-4c7d-bb6a-3b7dc542f1fa
Using Youtube User / Channel Scraper via Model Context Protocol (MCP) server
MCP server lets you use Youtube User / Channel Scraper within your AI workflows. Send API requests to trigger actions and receive real-time results. Take the received sessionId
and use it to communicate with the MCP server. The message starts the Youtube User / Channel Scraper Actor with the provided input.
1curl -X POST "https://actors-mcp-server.apify.actor/message?token=<YOUR_API_TOKEN>&session_id=<SESSION_ID>" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{
2 "jsonrpc": "2.0",
3 "id": 1,
4 "method": "tools/call",
5 "params": {
6 "arguments": {
7 "start_urls": [
8 {
9 "url": "https://www.youtube.com/@BBCNews"
10 }
11 ],
12 "ids": "UCyBD3P9YOFWNIMTuDzqeObg"
13},
14 "name": "gentle_cloud/youtube-user-channel-scraper"
15 }
16}'
The response should be: Accepted
. You should received response via SSE (JSON) as:
1event: message
2data: {
3 "result": {
4 "content": [
5 {
6 "type": "text",
7 "text": "ACTOR_RESPONSE"
8 }
9 ]
10 }
11}
Configure local MCP Server via standard input/output for Youtube User / Channel Scraper
You can connect to the MCP Server using clients like ClaudeDesktop and LibreChat or build your own. The server can run both locally and remotely, giving you full flexibility. Set up the server in the client configuration as follows:
1{
2 "mcpServers": {
3 "actors-mcp-server": {
4 "command": "npx",
5 "args": [
6 "-y",
7 "@apify/actors-mcp-server",
8 "--actors",
9 "gentle_cloud/youtube-user-channel-scraper"
10 ],
11 "env": {
12 "APIFY_TOKEN": "<YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
13 }
14 }
15 }
16}
You can further access the MCP client through the Tester MCP Client, a chat user interface to interact with the server.
To get started, check out the documentation and example clients. If you are interested in learning more about our MCP server, check out our blog post.