YouTube Channel Scraper: Stats, Videos & Shorts

Scrape YouTube channel data: subscribers, total views, number of videos, country, joined date, description, external links, plus the channel's latest videos, Shorts and live streams with views and dates.

No browser and no YouTube API key. Fast, cheap, and proxies are included in the price.

What can you use it for?

• Influencer marketing: vet creators by subscribers, total views, country and posting frequency.
• Competitor analysis: track how fast competitor channels grow and what they publish.
• Lead generation: collect channel links (websites, socials, stores) from the About section.
• Market research: compare many channels in a niche at once.
• Monitoring: schedule daily runs to log subscriber and view growth over time.

Features

Inputs	Channel URLs, @handles or channel IDs
Channel profile	Name, handle, ID, URL, description, subscribers (number + text), total views, video count, country, joined date, links, keywords, avatar, RSS feed
Videos	Latest videos: title, URL, views, duration, published time, thumbnail
Shorts	Latest Shorts: title, URL, views, thumbnail
Live streams	Past and current streams with views and dates
Limits	Max items per tab, max total cost per run

How to use

1. Add channels: @mkbhd, https://www.youtube.com/@3blue1brown or UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw.
2. Choose whether to include videos, Shorts and live streams, and how many per channel.
3. Click Start. Each channel gives one type: "channel" row, followed by its video rows.

Input example

{
    "channels": ["@mkbhd", "@3blue1brown"],
    "includeVideos": true,
    "includeShorts": true,
    "maxVideosPerChannel": 30
}

Output example

{
    "type": "channel",
    "channelId": "UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw",
    "channelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw",
    "handle": "@3blue1brown",
    "name": "3Blue1Brown",
    "subscribers": 8730000,
    "subscribersText": "8.73M subscribers",
    "videoCount": 247,
    "totalViews": 790047618,
    "country": "United States",
    "joinedDate": "2015-03-03",
    "links": [{ "title": "Patreon", "url": "patreon.com/3blue1brown" }],
    "status": "ok"
}

{
    "type": "video",
    "videoId": "LKrwhjOI8Nc",
    "title": "There's never been a better time to go into math",
    "channelName": "3Blue1Brown",
    "viewCount": 2600000,
    "durationText": "40:44",
    "publishedTimeText": "13 days ago",
    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKrwhjOI8Nc"
}

Pricing

You pay per channel profile and per video, Short or stream saved. Proxies and compute are included. Set a maximum cost per run and the Actor stops cleanly when it is reached.

FAQ

Are subscriber counts exact? YouTube only shows rounded subscriber counts (e.g. 8.73M), so that is what you get. Total views are exact.

Can I get all videos of a channel? Yes, set Max items per tab to 0.

Need exact likes or publish dates for each video? Use the YouTube Scraper by the same author with Full details on, or the YouTube Shorts Scraper for Shorts.