YouTube Channel Scraper

What is YouTube Channel Scraper?

YouTube Channel Scraper extracts complete video data from any public YouTube channel with exact numbers, ISO 8601 timestamps, and 37 fields per video — ready for spreadsheets, dashboards, and analysis pipelines.

Every number is an exact integer. Every date is ISO 8601. No "1.2M" guesses, no "10 months ago" approximations.

Data points extracted per video

Field	Description	Example
videoId	YouTube video ID	pAnGwRiQ4-4
title	Video title	$1 vs $1,000,000,000 Futuristic Tech!
publishedAt	ISO 8601 upload timestamp	2026-01-24T17:00:01Z
viewCount	Exact view count	66009191
likeCount	Exact like count	2009889
commentCount	Exact comment count	62785
duration	ISO 8601 duration	PT23M4S
durationSeconds	Duration in seconds	1384
tags	Video tags	tech,futuristic,expensive
categoryId	YouTube category ID	24
categoryName	Human-readable category	Entertainment
definition	Video quality	hd
type	Video type	video / shorts
channelName	Channel display name	MrBeast
channelSubscriberCount	Exact subscriber count	464000000
channelIsVerified	Verification badge	true

37 fields per video. Every number exact. Every date ISO 8601.

Why use this scraper?

Our Actor vs Top YouTube Channel Actors

Field	Us	Streamers	Grow Media
publishedAt ISO 8601 exact	✅	❌ relative	✅
likeCount exact integer	✅	❌	✅
commentCount exact integer	✅	❌	✅
subscriberCount exact integer	✅	❌ abbreviated	❌ abbreviated
tags	✅	❌	✅
categoryId	✅	❌	❌
topicDetails	✅	❌	❌
definition (HD/SD)	✅	❌	❌
hasCaptions	✅	❌	❌
isAgeRestricted	✅	❌	❌
durationSeconds integer	✅	❌	✅
Bulk channels	✅	✅	❌ 1 only
Shorts support	✅	✅	✅
Date filter	✅	✅	❌

• One row, full picture — 37 fields per video, flat CSV. No second API call, no post-processing to parse "1.2K" into a number. Download, open in Excel, done.
• Incremental delivery — Results appear in your dataset within seconds. Export anytime, don't wait for the run to finish.
• From $0.50 per 1,000 items — Volume discounts down to $0.25 on Business plan.

Use cases

• Influencer marketing — Find and evaluate creators with exact subscriber counts, posting frequency, and content categories. Filter by verified status, monetization, and topic.
• Competitive intelligence — Track competitor channels: what they post, when they post, what tags they use, which videos get the most engagement. Run weekly on a schedule.
• Content strategy — Analyze top-performing videos by views, likes, and engagement ratios. Find the optimal video length, best posting times, and winning tags.
• Market research — Benchmark channels by size, growth, and content mix. Build datasets for reports and presentations with exact numbers.
• Ad targeting — Filter channels by monetization status, content category, and audience size for ad placement decisions.
• ML training data — Structured JSON with 37 fields per video, ready for recommendation systems, trend analysis, or content classification.

How much does it cost?

Each video or short counts as one item.

Plan	Price per 1,000 items
Free	$0.50
Starter	$0.45
Scale	$0.40
Business	$0.25

Scenario	Items	Cost
1 channel, 100 videos	100	$0.05
10 channels, 100 videos each	1,000	$0.50
50 channels, 200 videos each	10,000	$5.00
1 channel, full history (2,000 videos)	2,000	$1.00

Shorts are opt-in. With maxShorts at 0 (default), you only pay for regular videos. Set it higher to include Shorts as separate items.

Apify also charges a small compute cost (CU) for the actor's runtime — typically under $0.01 for most runs.

Input

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
channelUrls	string[]	required	YouTube channel URLs, handles (@MrBeast), or channel IDs (UC...). Supports /channel/, /@, /c/, /user/ formats.
maxVideos	integer	100	Maximum regular videos to fetch per channel.
maxShorts	integer	0	Maximum Shorts to fetch per channel. Set to 0 to skip.
sortBy	string	latest	latest, popular, or oldest.
oldestVideoDate	string	—	Only include videos published after this date (ISO 8601, e.g. 2025-01-01).
includeChannelInfo	boolean	true	Attach channel metadata (subscribers, description, country) to each video row. Disable to reduce output size.

Output example

Each item in the dataset is a single video:

{
  "videoId": "pAnGwRiQ4-4",
  "title": "$1 vs $1,000,000,000 Futuristic Tech!",
  "description": "This video made me truly realize how awesome the future is...",
  "descriptionLinks": "https://shopify.com/mrbeast",
  "thumbnailUrl": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pAnGwRiQ4-4/maxresdefault.jpg",
  "publishedAt": "2026-01-24T17:00:01Z",
  "duration": "PT23M4S",
  "durationSeconds": 1384,
  "viewCount": 66009191,
  "likeCount": 2009889,
  "commentCount": 62785,
  "tags": "tech,futuristic,expensive",
  "categoryId": 24,
  "categoryName": "Entertainment",
  "topicDetails": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifestyle_(sociology)",
  "definition": "hd",
  "hasCaptions": true,
  "isAgeRestricted": false,
  "privacyStatus": "public",
  "commentsTurnedOff": false,
  "hashtags": "#tech #futuristic",
  "type": "video",
  "order": 0,
  "channelId": "UCX6OQ3DkcsbYNE6H8uQQuVA",
  "channelName": "MrBeast",
  "channelUsername": "@MrBeast",
  "channelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX6OQ3DkcsbYNE6H8uQQuVA",
  "channelDescription": "SUBSCRIBE FOR A COOKIE!...",
  "channelCountry": "US",
  "channelJoinedAt": "2012-02-20T00:43:50Z",
  "channelSubscriberCount": 464000000,
  "channelTotalViews": 109144471886,
  "channelTotalVideos": 942,
  "channelAvatarUrl": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/...",
  "channelBannerUrl": "https://yt3.googleusercontent.com/...",
  "channelIsVerified": true,
  "scrapeTimestamp": "2026-04-02T12:00:00Z"
}

Download your results as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or HTML from the dataset tab, or access them via the Apify API.

Good to know

Subscriber counts are exact integers. Other scrapers return abbreviated text like "1.2M" that you have to parse. We return 1200000 — ready for calculations, sorting, and filtering.

Channel info is repeated on every row. This makes every CSV row self-contained. If you're scraping 50 channels and need to group by subscriber count, it's already there. Disable includeChannelInfo to reduce output size if you don't need it.

Shorts are separate items. A Short is a video under 60 seconds. They appear in the dataset with type: "shorts". Use maxShorts: 0 (default) to skip them entirely.

Integrations

Connect this actor to your workflow with Apify integrations:

• Make (Integromat) — trigger workflows when new data is available
• Zapier — push videos to Google Sheets, Slack, or databases
• GitHub — store results in repositories
• Google Drive — export directly to spreadsheets
• Webhooks — notify your API when the run completes
• Apify API — programmatic access for custom pipelines

Legal and personal data

This actor extracts publicly available data from YouTube. You should ensure your use of the extracted data complies with YouTube's Terms of Service, applicable data protection laws (GDPR, CCPA), and your jurisdiction's regulations regarding web scraping and data processing.

Channel and video information is public content visible to anyone on YouTube.

Support

Found a bug or have a feature request? Open an issue on the Issues tab or contact us through Apify messaging.