Social Blade Scraper — Subscribers, Earnings & Ranks

What is Social Blade Scraper — Subscribers, Earnings & Ranks?

Social Blade Scraper is an Apify Actor for creators, agencies, researchers, and AI agents that need public Social Blade profile data in structured form. It accepts Social Blade profile references through profiles and startUrls, with one output record per creator profile. Each record can include platform, username, canonical Social Blade profile URL, display and channel metadata, audience and view counts, uploads, Social Blade ranks, estimated earnings fields, and a scrape timestamp. The result is a one-record-per-profile dataset that is easy to filter, join, and pass into downstream automation.

Best fit and connected workflows

This Actor fits workflows that begin with a creator list and end with normalized profile intelligence:

• creator discovery and shortlist enrichment from handles or Social Blade URLs
• sponsorship and outreach preparation with audience, grade, rank, and earnings estimates
• periodic monitoring of creator stats across supported Social Blade platforms
• agent-driven enrichment where an LLM needs a single creator record plus a stable dataset pointer

Because this is an Apify Actor, it is also usable through Apify MCP. That makes it a practical tool for agents that need public creator stats and then reason over a flat JSON record.

Practical scenario

A sponsorship coordinator has a list of creators in mixed formats: youtube/mrbeast, a full Twitch Social Blade URL, and a bare username for Instagram. They run the Actor with profiles and a platform default for bare usernames. The dataset returns fields such as displayName, audience, views, grade, sbRank, countryRank, categoryRank, and earningsMonthlyRaw. Using those fields, the coordinator compares creator scale and estimated earnings ranges, then moves the most relevant profiles into an outreach list.

Input

The Actor accepts creator references through profiles and optional startUrls. Use platform-prefixed usernames, full Social Blade profile URLs, or bare usernames with defaultPlatform.

Field	Type	Description
profiles	array	Creators to look up on Social Blade. Supports platform/username, full Social Blade profile URLs, and bare usernames or @handles with defaultPlatform. Supported platforms: youtube, twitch, twitter, instagram, tiktok, dailymotion, trovo.
startUrls	array	Optional Social Blade profile URLs merged with profiles.
defaultPlatform	string	Platform used for bare usernames in profiles. Default: youtube.
maxResults	integer	Hard cap on unique profiles processed after deduplication. Default: 10. Range: 1 to 2000.
proxyConfiguration	object	Proxy settings. The default uses Apify Residential in the US for the supported Social Blade access flow.

Focused input example

{
  "profiles": [
    "youtube/mrbeast",
    "instagram/cristiano"
  ],
  "startUrls": [
    "https://socialblade.com/twitch/user/ninja"
  ],
  "defaultPlatform": "youtube",
  "maxResults": 3
}

Output

The dataset contains one record per scraped creator profile. The overview view highlights platform, username, found status, display name, audience, views, uploads, grade, ranks, earnings, country, profile URL, and scrape time.

Field	Type	Description
platform	string	Platform inferred from the Social Blade route.
username	string	Username or handle used for the lookup.
profileUrl	string	Canonical Social Blade profile URL.
creatorId	string or null	Creator identifier when available.
displayName	string or null	Display name from the profile.
handle	string or null	Handle from the profile.
customUrl	string or null	Custom URL if present.
avatar	string or null	Avatar URL.
banner	string or null	Banner URL.
country	string or null	Country field from Social Blade.
channelType	string or null	Channel type.
category	string or null	Category or channel category.
description	string or null	Profile description.
madeForKids	boolean or null	Audience flag from the profile.
userCreated	string or null	Account creation date field from Social Blade.
grade	string or null	Social Blade grade.
statsHidden	boolean or null	Profile visibility flag from the source page.
subscribers	integer or null	Subscriber count when available.
followers	integer or null	Follower count when available.
audience	integer or null	Unified audience value.
views	integer or null	Total views.
uploads	integer or null	Total uploads.
sbRank	integer or null	Social Blade rank.
subscriberRank	integer or null	Subscriber rank.
viewRank	integer or null	View rank.
countryRank	integer or null	Country rank.
categoryRank	integer or null	Category rank.
earningsMonthlyMin	number or null	Monthly earnings lower bound.
earningsMonthlyMax	number or null	Monthly earnings upper bound.
earningsMonthlyRaw	string or null	Monthly earnings estimate as shown by Social Blade.
earningsYearlyMin	number or null	Yearly earnings lower bound.
earningsYearlyMax	number or null	Yearly earnings upper bound.
earningsYearlyRaw	string or null	Yearly earnings estimate as shown by Social Blade.
found	boolean or null	Whether the Social Blade profile was found.
retrievalMethod	string or null	Retrieval method recorded by the Actor.
_warnings	array or null	Record-level warnings, when present.
scrapedAt	string	ISO timestamp for the scrape.

Illustrative output record

{
  "platform": "youtube",
  "username": "mrbeast",
  "profileUrl": "https://socialblade.com/youtube/handle/mrbeast",
  "displayName": "MrBeast",
  "country": "United States",
  "grade": "A++",
  "subscribers": 1234567,
  "audience": 1234567,
  "views": 987654321,
  "uploads": 123,
  "sbRank": 1234,
  "countryRank": 345,
  "categoryRank": 67,
  "earningsMonthlyRaw": "$1.2K - $19.2K",
  "earningsYearlyRaw": "$14.4K - $230.4K",
  "found": true,
  "retrievalMethod": "socialblade-browser",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-27T00:00:00.000Z"
}

How it works

This Actor loads public Social Blade creator pages through an Apify browser setup and writes validated profile rows to the dataset. The live contract indicates that the default proxy configuration uses Apify Residential in the US for this Social Blade access flow. The output contract also persists terminal metadata in key-value store records named OUTPUT and RUN_SUMMARY, with the run summary tracking accepted, processed, found, written, and billed profiles.

The Actor is built around the primary charged event Profile scraped, which is emitted once per creator profile successfully scraped from Social Blade and written as a dataset record.

Pricing

Social Blade Scraper - Subscribers, Earnings, Ranks uses Pay per event pricing plus Apify platform usage. The live Pricing tab in the Apify console is the source of truth for current charges.

The charged events in the contract are:

• Actor start
• Profile scraped

As a simple example in words, a run that processes ten creator profiles and writes ten valid profile records is billed for one actor start event and ten profile scraped events, plus Apify platform usage. Review the live Pricing tab before running larger lists.

Use with AI agents (MCP)

This Actor is available as an Apify Actor usable through Apify MCP. It turns a Social Blade creator lookup into a structured dataset record and a machine-readable run summary.

Tool description: look up public Social Blade creator stats by profile reference and return one dataset record per creator, plus terminal execution metadata in Apify key-value storage.

Actor identity: khadinakbar/socialblade-scraper

Find public Social Blade stats for these creators:

• youtube/mrbeast
• https://socialblade.com/twitch/user/ninja Return the dataset rows and summarize the retrieved audience, ranks, and earnings fields.

When using the tool, treat found, retrievalMethod, scrapedAt, and the dataset URL as provenance signals. The dataset is the canonical record set, while OUTPUT and RUN_SUMMARY provide the terminal run state and counts. The maxResults field caps unique profiles after deduplication, which helps control both processing scope and Pay per event volume. For agents that only need a few creator lookups, a short profile list and a small maxResults value keep the workflow focused.

Apify API example

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({
  token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN,
});

const actor = client.actor('khadinakbar/socialblade-scraper');

const run = await actor.call({
  profiles: [
    'youtube/mrbeast',
    'instagram/cristiano'
  ],
  maxResults: 2
});

const dataset = client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId);
const { items } = await dataset.listItems({ clean: true, format: 'json' });

console.log('Run status:', run.status);
console.log('Dataset items:', items);

Best results and outcome guidance

Use platform-prefixed usernames when the creator platform matters, and use full Social Blade URLs when you already have a canonical profile link. For bare usernames, set defaultPlatform so the Actor can resolve them consistently. If your list is large, set maxResults deliberately so the processed profile count stays aligned with your intended budget and workflow scope. The default residential proxy configuration is part of the expected setup for this Actor.

Continue the workflow

• Then use Subreddit Posts Search Scraper to extend Social Blade Scraper — Subscribers, Earnings & Ranks with a neighboring social-media research source when the brief calls for Reddit data.
• Then use Social Media Sentiment Analyzer — AI Emotion & Brand Health to extend Social Blade Scraper — Subscribers, Earnings & Ranks with a neighboring social-media research source when the brief calls for Social data.

Design note

I found that the live contract exposes a clear one-record-per-profile dataset shape with found, retrievalMethod, and scrapedAt included in every row, which makes the output easy to trace back to the lookup.

FAQ

Can I mix profiles and startUrls in one run?
Yes. The live input contract merges optional Social Blade profile URLs from startUrls with the entries in profiles.

Which platforms are accepted?
The input schema lists YouTube, Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Dailymotion, and Trovo.

What URL format should I use for YouTube handles?
Use the Social Blade route style, such as https://socialblade.com/youtube/handle/mrbeast.

What should I read for a creator summary?
Start with displayName, audience, views, uploads, grade, sbRank, countryRank, categoryRank, and the earnings fields.

Where is the run summary stored?
The terminal result is written to the default key-value store in OUTPUT, and the counts summary is written in RUN_SUMMARY.

Responsible use

This Actor retrieves public profile information displayed by Social Blade. Use the data in ways that respect applicable laws, creator rights, and the terms governing the source site and your own use case. Earnings values are Social Blade estimates, so treat them as directional signals rather than financial records.