Youtube Channel Scraper

Turn public YouTube channels into structured JSON. Give the scraper a list of channel URLs and get back the channel profile — description, subscriber count, video count, total views, join date, country and the external links the channel lists — together with the videos from the channel's Videos tab, each with its title, description, publish time, duration, view count, thumbnails and URL.

Key Features

• One item per channel URL: paste channel links and receive one clean record for each.
• Channel profile fields: description, join date, country and the outbound links on the About panel.
• Counts in two forms: the text YouTube renders (21.3M subscribers) and a parsed numeric value you can sort on.
• Video list per channel: the videos on the channel's Videos tab, capped by maxVideos.
• Flexible URL formats: /@handle, /channel/UC..., /c/... and /user/... URLs are all accepted.
• Run budget control: maxItems stops the run once enough channels have been stored.
• No YouTube account required: only public channel pages are read.
• Optional proxy: runs without a proxy by default, and any Apify Proxy group can be enabled from the input.

Who Is This For

• Marketing and influencer teams building creator shortlists from channel size and activity.
• Analysts and researchers assembling datasets of channels by topic, country or audience size.
• Agencies and brands tracking the channels they sponsor or compete with.
• Developers who need YouTube channel data as JSON, CSV or Excel through the Apify API.

Common Use Cases

• Creator discovery: collect subscriber counts, view totals and upload volume for a list of candidate channels.
• Competitor monitoring: re-run on a schedule and watch how a channel's counts and recent uploads change.
• Contact research: read the external links a channel publishes on its About panel.
• Content analysis: pull recent video titles, durations and view counts for topic or format research.
• CRM and dashboard enrichment: push channel records into your own tooling through the Apify API.

Input

Field	Type	Description	Default
startUrls	array	YouTube channel URLs to scrape. Each channel produces one dataset item.	3 example channels
maxItems	integer	Stop after this many channels have been stored. Leave empty to scrape every start URL.	empty (no limit)
maxVideos	integer	Maximum number of videos collected from each channel.	50 when not set
sortBy	string	Accepted for backwards compatibility. Videos are returned in the channel's default order on its Videos tab.	Latest
proxyConfiguration	object	Proxy settings. Enable Apify Proxy if runs start getting blocked or you need a specific country.	no proxy

Example input:

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.youtube.com/@MrBeast" },
    { "url": "https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd" }
  ],
  "maxItems": 5,
  "maxVideos": 5,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": false }
}

Output

Each dataset item describes one channel and the videos collected from it.

Field	Type	Description
channel.url	string	The channel URL you provided
channel.description	string or null	Channel description
channel.subscriberCount	string or null	Subscriber count as YouTube renders it
channel.subscriberCountNumeric	integer or null	Subscriber count parsed into a number
channel.videoCount	string or null	Video count as YouTube renders it
channel.videoCountNumeric	integer or null	Video count parsed into a number
channel.viewCount	string or null	Total view count as YouTube renders it
channel.viewCountNumeric	integer or null	Total view count parsed into a number
channel.joinedDate	string or null	Date the channel joined YouTube
channel.country	string or null	Country shown on the About panel
channel.links	array	External links with title and url
videos	array	Videos collected from the channel
scrapedAt	string	ISO timestamp of the run

Each entry in videos has these fields:

Field	Type	Description
videoId	string	YouTube video id
title	string	Video title
description	string	Description snippet shown in the list
publishedTime	string	Relative publish time, for example 2 weeks ago
lengthText	string	Duration, for example 12:41
viewCount	string	View count as YouTube renders it
thumbnails	array	Thumbnail objects with url, width and height
url	string	Canonical video URL

Example item, captured from a run of this Actor:

{
  "channel": {
    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd",
    "links": [],
    "subscriberCount": "21.3M subscribers",
    "videoCount": "1.8K videos",
    "description": "",
    "subscriberCountNumeric": 21300000,
    "videoCountNumeric": 1800
  },
  "videos": [],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-18T19:54:40.585Z"
}

Pricing

This Actor is priced per result. The current price, and what counts as a result, is shown on the Pricing tab of the Actor page on the Apify Store.

FAQ

Do I need a YouTube account or API key? No. The scraper reads only public channel pages and never signs in.

Which URLs are accepted? YouTube channel URLs in any of the usual formats: https://www.youtube.com/@MrBeast, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC..., /c/... and /user/.... A URL that is not a YouTube channel URL is skipped with a warning in the run log.

How many videos do I get per channel? As many as maxVideos allows. YouTube loads its video list in pages, so the scraper scrolls the Videos tab until it has enough videos or the list stops growing.

Do I need a proxy? Not by default. If runs start getting blocked, or you need results as seen from a specific country, enable Apify Proxy in the input.

Why is a field null or empty? YouTube does not show every field on every channel. When a value is not on the page it is left empty rather than guessed.

How do I export the results? Open the run's dataset on Apify and download it as JSON, CSV, Excel or XML, or fetch it through the Apify API.

Is scraping YouTube channel pages legal? The scraper only collects publicly available channel information. You are responsible for using the data in line with applicable laws and YouTube's terms.

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