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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. No API key.

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from $0.60 / 1,000 result returneds

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Insight Solutions

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Videos

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YouTube channels

channels

Optional

One entry per channel. A handle (@TED), a channel URL (https://www.youtube.com/@TED, with or without /videos on the end), a /channel/UC… URL, a legacy /c/ or /user/ URL, or a bare UC… channel ID. A bare word is read as a handle. UC… IDs skip the lookup request; everything else costs one extra request to resolve. Duplicates are read, and billed, once.

Type:array

Example:

[
  "@TED",
  "https://www.youtube.com/@NASA/videos",
  "UCAuUUnT6oDeKwE6v1NGQxug"
]

Which uploads

tab

Optional

Which of the channel's three video tabs to read, newest first. videos is the ordinary upload grid. shorts is the Shorts grid — those rows carry a view count and a title but no duration and no date, because YouTube publishes none for a Short. live is the past-and-current streams tab, where the dates read "Streamed 4 months ago".

Type:string

Default:videos

Options:

videosshortslive

Videos per channel

maxVideosPerChannel

Optional

How many uploads to return for each channel. YouTube serves the grid thirty at a time (about fifty for Shorts), so the walk stops on the page that reaches your number — you may get a few fewer than a round figure if the channel runs out of uploads first. Set 0 for the whole tab, which on a channel with thousands of uploads means a run bounded only by your time and charge budgets.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Maximum:100000

Default:100

Include the channel profile row

includeChannelProfile

Optional

Write one channel row per channel before its videos: subscriber count, video count, exact lifetime view count, join date, country, description, keywords, avatar, banner and the uploader's own links. It costs one extra request — the About panel is a separate continuation — and it bills as one result row.

Type:boolean

Default:true

What to search for

searchType

Optional

Which of YouTube's own result filters to apply. videos returns video rows, channels returns channel rows (title, handle, subscriber count, description snippet — YouTube publishes no video count on a channel result), playlists returns playlist rows. Only applies to searchQueries.

Type:string

Default:videos

Options:

videoschannelsplaylists

YouTube search queries

searchQueries

Optional

Optional. One entry per search, exactly as you would type it into YouTube's own search box. Leave empty to run in channel mode only; fill both fields to do both in one run. Queries are deduped case-insensitively.

Type:array

Example:

[
  "machine learning tutorial",
  "nasa artemis"
]

Upload date filter

uploadDate

Optional

Restrict a video search to what was uploaded inside this window. This is YouTube's own filter, and like YouTube it applies to a video search only — it is ignored for channels and playlists, which have no such filter.

Type:string

Default:any

Options:

anyhourtodayweekmonthyear

Results per query

maxResultsPerQuery

Optional

How many results to return for each search query. YouTube serves twenty per page, so the walk stops on the page that reaches your number. Set 0 for everything YouTube will page through, which is far fewer than the estimatedResults figure it advertises.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Maximum:10000

Default:50

Channels and queries in parallel

maxConcurrency

Optional

How many channels or queries are walked at once. Each parallel worker keeps its own residential proxy session, so a target that gets blocked burns only its own exit IP. Pages within one target cannot be parallelised — each page hands over the token for the next — so this is the only lever on speed. Three is the balance that holds up in practice.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:10

Default:3

Maximum run time (seconds)

maxRunSecs

Optional

Wall-clock budget for the whole run. When it is reached the Actor stops walking, keeps and bills for every row it already wrote, and files a free diagnostic row for each entry it never reached. A channel stopped part-way keeps its rows and is not marked as failed. Nothing is charged for work that did not happen.

Type:integer

Minimum:30

Maximum:3600

Default:240

Proxy configuration

proxyConfiguration

Optional

YouTube blocks datacenter IP ranges wholesale, which is why this Actor is built around Apify's residential proxy and why the proxy cost is already inside the per-row price. Leave this on the default. Sessions rotate automatically when an exit IP is refused. Clearing it sends requests from the run's own datacenter address, which YouTube will almost certainly block.

Type:object

Default:

{
  "useApifyProxy": true,
  "apifyProxyGroups": [
    "RESIDENTIAL"
  ]
}

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