YouTube Channel Scraper 📺 — All Videos, Views & Channel Stats (No Login, No API Key)

Scrape every video from any YouTube channel with full metadata — title, view count, duration, publish date, thumbnail and video URL — plus the channel's subscriber count, total video count, description and ID. This YouTube channel scraper works by @handle, channel URL, or channel ID and exports to JSON, CSV or Excel.

No YouTube login, no cookies, no Google API key, no quota. Pull a channel's entire back catalog — hundreds or thousands of videos — in a single run.

✅ No login · No API key · @handle / URL / ID supported · Videos, Shorts & Live · Whole catalog

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Why use this YouTube channel scraper?

• The whole catalog, not page one. Auto-paginates to the very end of the channel's Videos tab.
• Videos, Shorts or Live. Pick exactly which channel tab to scrape.
• Rich per-video data. View count (as a real integer), duration, publish date, thumbnail and watch URL.
• Channel stats on every row. Subscriber count, total videos, description, handle and ID.
• Bulk channels. Pass a list of channels and scrape them all at once.
• No API quota. The official YouTube Data API burns quota and caps results — this has neither limit.

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How to scrape a YouTube channel (step by step)

No coding required. Here's how to extract all videos from a YouTube channel:

1. Open the actor on Apify and click Try for free.
2. Add the channel(s) to the channels field — @handle (e.g. @MrBeast), a channel URL, or a UC… channel ID.
3. (Optional) Choose contentType (videos, shorts, live) and set maxVideos (use 0 for the entire channel).
4. Click Start.
5. Export the videos to CSV, Excel or JSON — or pull them through the Apify API.

Automating it? Trigger a run via the Apify API and schedule it daily to track a channel's new uploads automatically.

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What data can you extract from a YouTube channel?

Data point	Field	Example
Channel name	channelTitle	"MrBeast"
Subscribers	channelSubscriberCount	489000000
Total videos	channelVideoCount	870
Video title	title	"Survive 30 Days On An Island…"
Views	viewCount	62000000
Duration	duration / durationSeconds	"39:09" / 2349
Published	publishedTime	"5 days ago"
Is a Short	isShort	false
Thumbnail	thumbnail	https://i.ytimg.com/…
Watch URL	url	https://youtube.com/watch?v=…

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Use cases

• Competitor analysis — pull a rival channel's full upload history with views and dates to benchmark output and performance.
• Influencer vetting — assess a creator's catalog size, average views and posting cadence before a partnership.
• Content & video SEO research — analyze titles, durations and view distributions across a niche.
• Trend tracking — schedule it to monitor a set of channels' new uploads.
• Dataset building — assemble channel video catalogs for analytics, recommendation or AI pipelines.
• Feed downstream tools — collect videoIds here, then enrich with the Comments or Video Details scrapers.

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Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
channels	string[]	—	@handle, channel URL, or UC… ID.
contentType	string	videos	videos, shorts, or live.
maxVideos	integer	100	Cap per channel. 0 = entire catalog.
maxResults	integer	0	Global cap across all channels.

Example input

{
  "channels": ["@MrBeast", "https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd", "UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ"],
  "contentType": "videos",
  "maxVideos": 0
}

Example output

{
  "channelTitle": "MrBeast",
  "channelSubscriberCount": 489000000,
  "videoId": "AaMdXZMvT3w",
  "title": "Survive 30 Days On An Island With Your Ex, Win $250,000",
  "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaMdXZMvT3w",
  "viewCount": 62000000,
  "duration": "39:09",
  "publishedTime": "5 days ago",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-05-22T07:30:00Z"
}

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How it works

This YouTube channel video scraper resolves any @handle, custom URL or /channel/UC… to the channel's browse ID, reads the channel's internal data (the same the website renders), and paginates the video grid to the end. It parses YouTube's current lockupViewModel video format — resilient to the layout migration that broke many older scrapers — and fetches a fresh access key per run with retries.

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Frequently asked questions

Do I need a YouTube API key to scrape a channel? No — no key, no login, and none of the YouTube Data API's quota limits.

Can it scrape a channel's entire video history? Yes. Set maxVideos: 0 for the whole back catalog.

How do I find a channel ID? You don't need to — just paste the @handle or channel URL and the actor resolves it.

Can I scrape YouTube Shorts or live streams? Yes — set contentType to shorts or live.

Can I scrape multiple channels at once? Yes — add as many channels as you like to the channels list.

Can I scrape a channel without coding? Yes — paste the channel, click Start, download CSV/Excel/JSON. No code.

Is scraping a YouTube channel legal? The actor collects only public channel and video data. Use it in line with YouTube's Terms and applicable laws.

Why are views shown as 62M somewhere and a number here? YouTube abbreviates views in listings; the actor parses them to an integer in viewCount and keeps the original text in viewCountText.

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Limits & notes

• Publish dates are relative ("5 days ago"); views are abbreviated by YouTube and parsed to integers.
• Shorts expose views but usually no duration.
• For exact upload timestamps or per-video like counts, pair with the YouTube Video Details Scraper.

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The complete YouTube scraping toolkit

• YouTube Comments Scraper — all comments for these videos
• YouTube Video Details Scraper — exact views, likes & tags
• YouTube Search Scraper — find channels & videos by keyword
• YouTube Influencer Discovery — creators, engagement & emails

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💰 Pricing

Pay-per-result — you only pay for the videos you actually get. No proxy or YouTube API costs.

🆘 Support

Need exact upload timestamps, per-video like counts, or the channel's playlists too? Open an issue on the actor's page.