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YouTube Channel API — Videos, Shorts & Search

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Scrape any YouTube channel's uploads as data: one row per video with title, view count, duration, publish date and thumbnail, plus a profile row with subscriber count, exact total views and join date. Also searches YouTube for videos, channels or playlists. Residential proxy included.

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from $0.30 / 1,000 result returneds

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Insight Solutions

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Videos

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You can access the YouTube Channel API — Videos, Shorts & Search 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 API & Integrations in Apify Console.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = {
9    "channels": ["@TED"],
10    "tab": "videos",
11    "maxVideosPerChannel": 30,
12    "includeChannelProfile": True,
13    "searchQueries": [],
14    "searchType": "videos",
15    "uploadDate": "any",
16    "maxResultsPerQuery": 50,
17    "proxyConfiguration": {
18        "useApifyProxy": True,
19        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
20    },
21}
22
23# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
24run = client.actor("insight.solutions/youtube-channel-api").call(run_input=run_input)
25
26# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
27print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
28for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
29    print(item)
30
31# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

YouTube Channel Scraper: Videos, Shorts & Search API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use YouTube Channel API — Videos, Shorts & Search API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

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$pip install apify-client

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