YouTube Channel Videos & Shorts Stats

Paste a list of YouTube channels. Get back their latest videos, Shorts and live streams with exact views and likes, post date, length and description — plus a report that compares the channels on median views, like rate and upload pace.

No YouTube API key, no Google account, no quota.

Exact numbers, not "1.1M views"

A channel page only shows rounded counts. This actor reads each video's exact figures: 1,206,162 views and 29,431 likes, not "1.2M views". That is the difference between a guess and a number you can put in a report or an invoice.

What it's for

• Influencer vetting — before you book a creator, see what their last 30 videos and Shorts really did. Median views tells you what a typical post gets; one viral hit can't inflate it.
• Competitor tracking — run weekly on rival channels and see which formats and topics are working for them.
• Content strategy — compare long videos vs Shorts on the same channel, and how often top channels post.
• Agency reporting — one table for a whole roster of creators.

What you get for each video

Performance	Exact views, exact likes, like rate (likes ÷ views); concurrent viewers for live streams
Video	Type (video, Short, stream), title, description, length, thumbnail, link
Timing	Post date, position on the channel tab
Channel	Name, @handle, channel ID, subscribers

Real rows from a test run of 7 channels:

Channel	Type	Title	Views	Likes
MrBeast	video	$1 vs $1,000,000,000 Nuclear Bunker!	196,896,298	3,092,581
Veritasium	video	Why does every mammal get 1 billion heartbeats?	6,645,239	153,565
Marques Brownlee	video	Apple Homeview Impressions: Not Convinced!	1,206,162	29,431
NASA	short	Moon Rocket on the Move	484,279	14,938

The channel report

Every run writes a CHANNEL_REPORT to the key-value store, one entry per channel: subscribers, videos checked, total, median and average views, average likes, like rate, uploads per week, newest and oldest post, the top 5 videos, and the same numbers split by videos vs Shorts. From the test run:

Channel	Subscribers	Median views	Like rate	Uploads / week
Marques Brownlee	21.4M	5,840,816	2.5%	1.0
Veritasium	21.4M	5,414,429	2.2%	1.2
NASA	15.1M	294,405	2.8%	0.4
TED	27.9M	41,919	1.0%	10.9

Input

{
  "channelUrls": ["https://www.youtube.com/@MKBHD", "@NASA", "UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ"],
  "contentTypes": ["videos", "shorts"],
  "maxVideosPerChannel": 30,
  "newerThanDays": 90
}

Field	Default	Notes
channelUrls	—	Required. @handle links, /channel/, /c/ and /user/ links, bare @handles or UC... IDs.
contentTypes	videos, Shorts	Any of videos, shorts, streams (past live streams).
maxVideosPerChannel	30	Per channel and per type: 30 means up to 30 videos and 30 Shorts.
newerThanDays	—	Only items posted in the last N days. Older ones are skipped and never charged.
includeDescription	true	Full video descriptions.
includeLiveAndUpcoming	false	Also save streams that are live now or scheduled.
maxConcurrency	10	Videos read in parallel (up to 10).

Speed and cost

Measured: 420 videos and Shorts from 7 channels, every one with exact views and likes. A batch of 3 channels (180 videos) finished in 90 seconds. The actor talks to YouTube directly and only falls back to a proxy when YouTube refuses a request, which keeps runs fast and cheap.

You only pay for videos you get

Channels that don't exist, wrong links and videos outside your date filter are never written to the dataset, so they are never charged. Failed channels are listed with the reason in CHANNEL_REPORT.failed.

Limitations

• Subscriber counts are rounded ("21.4M") — YouTube does not publish exact ones.
• Comment counts are not included; use the companion YouTube Comments Scraper for comments.
• Shorts have no length in the channel listing, so durationSeconds is empty for them.
• Members-only and private videos are not visible to logged-out visitors and are skipped.

Legal

Reads only what YouTube shows any visitor without logging in. You are responsible for how you use the data.