YouTube Channel Scraper & Monitor

Get the numbers and the newest videos of any YouTube channels: subscribers, total views, join date, links, how often they post, typical views, and each video's title, publish date, views, views per day, likes, length, description and whether it is a Short.

Switch What to return to Changes since the last run and schedule it, and each run tells you only what moved since the previous one: new uploads, videos that are taking off, and videos that were taken down. A day with nothing new costs one row per channel.

The data comes from public YouTube pages and channel feeds. No YouTube account or API key is needed. This is an independent tool. It is not made, endorsed or sponsored by YouTube or Google.

Who it's for

• Brand and marketing teams who keep an eye on competitors' channels. Put in 5 to 20 channels, run it every morning, and send the result to Slack or a spreadsheet. You see what they uploaded yesterday and which of their recent videos are growing fastest, without opening each channel.
• Influencer and creator agencies comparing many channels at once: subscribers, uploads in the last 7 and 28 days, and average views of the newest 10 videos, one row per channel, ready for a report.
• Creators comparing their channel with others in the same niche.
• Developers and AI agents that need a channel's video list as data through the API.

How to use it

1. Enter the channels, one per line. Any of these work: https://www.youtube.com/@nike, @nike, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUFgkRb0ZHc4Rpq15VRCICA, or the channel ID UCUFgkRb0ZHc4Rpq15VRCICA.
2. Pick What to return:
   • All videos: the channel row and its newest videos, every run.
   • Changes since the last run: the first run records the newest videos as baseline. After that you get only new, growing and removed videos.
   • Channels only: one row per channel, no video rows.
3. Set Maximum videos per channel (30 by default). To narrow the video rows, use Only videos published in the last (days) or Only videos whose title contains (for example review, unboxing).
4. To watch channels, save the input as a task and add a daily schedule in Apify. Connect it to Slack, Google Sheets, a webhook or Zapier/Make with Apify's integrations.

Use a different Watch name for each separate list (for example one per client). Runs with the same watch name share their memory of what was seen before.

What you get

One row per video

Field	Meaning
change	listed in All videos mode. In changes mode: new, growing, removed, or baseline on the first run
channelTitle, channelHandle, channelId	The channel
videoId, url, title, thumbnailUrl	The video
isShort	Whether it is a Short
status	published, live (streaming now) or upcoming (scheduled)
publishedAt	When it was published. Exact for the 15 newest uploads; for older ones it comes from YouTube's "3 weeks ago" and publishedAtIsApproximate is true
views, likes	Views and likes. Exact for the 15 newest uploads (viewsAreExact); older videos have YouTube's rounded view count (289K) and no likes
viewsPerDay	Views divided by days since publishing, so an old hit and a new video can be compared
likesPerThousandViews	Likes per 1,000 views, when likes are known
description	The video description, for the 15 newest uploads
previousViews, viewsGain, viewsGainPercent	For growing: views at the last run and how much they rose
durationSeconds	Length

One row per channel

subscribers (and YouTube's own text, such as 2.28M subscribers), totalViews (exact), videoCount, joinedDate, country, the external links on the channel page (website, Instagram, TikTok…), videosLast7Days, videosLast28Days, uploadIntervalDays (average days between the newest uploads), avgViewsRecent10 and medianViewsRecent10 (typical views of the newest 10, without one big hit skewing it), likesPerThousandViewsRecent, the 5 newest videos, the description, keywords and avatar. In changes mode also subscribersChange, newVideosSinceLastRun, and topGrowing, the 5 videos that gained the most views since the last run.

Output example

A video row and a channel row from a run on @nike (shortened):

{
    "type": "video",
    "change": "listed",
    "channelTitle": "Nike",
    "videoId": "5Hp1oHf0UBw",
    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5Hp1oHf0UBw",
    "title": "Rise and shine. Ja Morant.",
    "isShort": true,
    "status": "published",
    "publishedAt": "2026-10-22T17:01:26.000Z",
    "publishedAtIsApproximate": false,
    "views": 3568,
    "viewsAreExact": true,
    "likes": 177,
    "viewsPerDay": 902.6,
    "likesPerThousandViews": 49.6,
    "durationSeconds": 16,
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5Hp1oHf0UBw/hqdefault.jpg"
}

{
    "type": "channel",
    "channelTitle": "Nike",
    "channelHandle": "@nike",
    "subscribers": 2280000,
    "subscribersText": "2.28M subscribers",
    "totalViews": 372296343,
    "videoCount": 649,
    "joinedDate": "2006-03-07",
    "videosLast7Days": 3,
    "videosLast28Days": 9,
    "uploadIntervalDays": 3.4,
    "avgViewsRecent10": 11921,
    "medianViewsRecent10": 6103,
    "likesPerThousandViewsRecent": 11.1,
    "links": [{ "title": "Nike.com", "url": "https://www.nike.com/membership" }],
    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/@nike"
}

Video rows and channel rows share one dataset. Each row has type (video or channel); filter on it when you export the results or connect them to a spreadsheet.

Pricing

You pay per event.

Event	Price
Run start	$0.003 per run (with the default memory)
Video row: All videos mode, or baseline on the first run in changes mode	$0.50 per 1,000
Video change: new, growing or removed	$1.00 per 1,000
Channel row, one per channel	$0.003 each

For example, watching 10 competitors' channels every day costs about $0.18 for the first run and about $1 a month after that, if they post a couple of videos a day between them. Listing 200 channels with 30 videos each once a week costs about $15 a month. Set a maximum cost per run in Apify if you want a hard limit; the run stops cleanly when it is reached, and the changes it could not report come out on the next run.

Good to know

• Subscriber counts are rounded by YouTube (2.28M, 15.1K). subscribersChange moves only when the rounded number changes.
• "New" means published recently. A video counts as new when it was published after the last run, or up to 3 days before it, because some videos show up in the list late. An old video that becomes public again is recorded quietly instead of being reported as new. New videos are reported even when they are beyond your maximum.
• "Growing" means views rose by at least the percentage you set (20% by default) and by at least 100 views since the last run. Set it to 0 to turn it off.
• "Removed" is checked only among the 15 newest uploads. A video counts as removed when it was one of them and YouTube now says it is unavailable (deleted or made private). Videos that drop out of your maximum because newer ones arrived are never reported as removed, and neither are videos that become unlisted.
• Uploads in the last 7 and 28 days come from the publish dates above. For a channel that posts a lot, the run reads past your maximum to count them (without returning or charging those extra videos). If it still can't reach 28 days back, postingCountsAreLowerBound is true and the numbers mean "at least".
• The filters apply to video rows only. The channel row always counts every video. In changes mode a change that doesn't match the filters is not returned or charged, and it is not reported later either.
• Views per day uses the publish date. For videos older than the 15 newest uploads the date comes from YouTube's "3 weeks ago", so the figure is approximate (a little high rather than low).
• Shorts are told apart using YouTube's Shorts list. Turning off Include Shorts returns regular videos only; in changes mode it starts a fresh watch for each channel.
• One run per watch at a time. If a run starts while another run is still using the same watch name, it stops with an error instead of reporting the same changes twice.
• If YouTube changes its pages, the run stops with an error instead of returning wrong or empty results. Rows returned before that point are charged as usual; nothing after it is returned or charged.
• Comments, transcripts and channel e-mail addresses are not included.