Playboard YouTube Channel Ranking Scraper

📊 Compare YouTube Channels with Playboard

Playboard is for creator researchers, marketers, and analysts who need rankings of YouTube influencers and channels. It reads public Playboard ranking pages and saves each ranked channel with its rank, country, category, metric, identity, YouTube and Playboard links, source page, displayed counts, and parsed counts when available. Use the dataset to compare channels by a chosen scope.

• Build a creator list with YouTube Influencers for a chosen country, category, and metric.
• Compare gaming channels with YouTube Gaming Rankings.
• Review subscriber leaders with YouTube Subscriber Rankings.
• Check a regional list with YouTube Rankings by Country.
• Browse a selected scope with YouTube Channel Rankings.

📋 Ranked channel data with source context

Each dataset row is one ranked channel from a selected Playboard page. Shared fields keep the ranking context and channel links together. Displayed count fields keep the text shown by Playboard, while parsed count fields are included when that text can be parsed.

▶️ Run a focused Playboard ranking

Choose one or more countries, one or more content categories, and one ranking metric. The Actor checks every country and category combination with that metric, reads the matching public ranking pages, and saves the ranked channels it finds. The hosted default example checks the worldwide, all-category popularity ranking. Open the dataset when the run finishes.

⚙️ Input

Input fields

Field	Type	What it does
countries	array of strings	Add one or more country scopes, such as worldwide, united-states, or japan. The Actor checks every selected country with every selected category and the chosen metric.
categories	array of strings	Add one or more Playboard content categories, such as all, gaming, music, or education. The Actor checks every selected category with every selected country and the chosen metric.
rankingMetric	string	Choose one metric: popularity, subscribers, views, superchat, growth, decline, or live-watched. The output includes the measures shown on the selected ranking.

Example input

This is the public input from the successful hosted default-input run:

{
  "countries": [
    "worldwide"
  ],
  "categories": [
    "all"
  ],
  "rankingMetric": "popularity"
}

🧾 Output

The run output includes one field, dataset (URL), which opens the default dataset view. The dataset uses one ranked-channel row shape. The superChatEarningsDisplayed, growthDisplayed, declineDisplayed, and liveWatchedDisplayed fields are included when the selected ranking provides them. Parsed count fields are included when the displayed value can be parsed.

Ranked channel row

Field	Type	What it does
rank	integer	Channel position on the selected Playboard ranking page.
country	string	Country scope used for the ranking.
category	string	Playboard content category used for the ranking.
rankingMetric	string	Playboard metric used to order the ranking.
channelName	string	Channel name shown by Playboard.
youtubeChannelId	string	YouTube channel identifier for the result.
youtubeUrl	URL	Direct link to the YouTube channel.
playboardUrl	URL	Direct link to the channel on Playboard.
sourceRankingPageUrl	URL	Playboard ranking page that produced the row.
subscriberCountDisplayed	string	Subscriber count as shown by Playboard.
subscriberCount	integer, optional	Parsed subscriber count when the displayed value can be parsed.
viewCountDisplayed	string	View count as shown by Playboard.
viewCount	integer, optional	Parsed view count when the displayed value can be parsed.
videoCountDisplayed	string	Video count as shown by Playboard.
videoCount	integer, optional	Parsed video count when the displayed value can be parsed.
superChatEarningsDisplayed	string, optional	SuperChat earning estimate as shown when the selected ranking provides it.
growthDisplayed	string, optional	Growth measure as shown when the selected ranking provides it.
declineDisplayed	string, optional	Decline measure as shown when the selected ranking provides it.
liveWatchedDisplayed	string, optional	Live-watched measure as shown when the selected ranking provides it.

Example ranked channel row

This complete row is from a successful current-beta run for the input above:

{
  "rank": 1,
  "country": "worldwide",
  "category": "all",
  "rankingMetric": "popularity",
  "channelName": "Ariel Philippines",
  "youtubeChannelId": "UCG5fA_CSbVZlaGleTNMBdjQ",
  "youtubeUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG5fA_CSbVZlaGleTNMBdjQ",
  "playboardUrl": "https://playboard.co/en/channel/UCG5fA_CSbVZlaGleTNMBdjQ",
  "sourceRankingPageUrl": "https://playboard.co/en/youtube-ranking/most-popular-all-channels-in-worldwide-daily",
  "subscriberCountDisplayed": "70,100",
  "subscriberCount": 70100,
  "viewCountDisplayed": "1.13B",
  "viewCount": 1135085407,
  "videoCountDisplayed": "244 videos",
  "videoCount": 244
}

💳 Pricing

Pricing event

The Actor uses pay-per-event pricing. One ranked-channel-result event is counted when one ranked channel is saved to the dataset. The price shown in the Store applies to this event.

🔌 Integrations

Using the data

Open the dataset in Apify or retrieve its rows through the Apify API. Export the rows for analysis in your own tools.

❓ FAQ

Which fields change with the ranking metric?

Every row keeps its rank, country, category, channel identity, links, and displayed subscriber, view, and video counts. A selected ranking can also provide SuperChat, growth, decline, or live-watched fields.

Can I combine several countries and categories in one run?

Yes. The Actor checks each selected country with each selected category for the one ranking metric you choose.

Are count values kept as shown by Playboard?

Yes. The displayed fields keep Playboard's text, including abbreviations or other formatting. Parsed integer fields are included when the displayed value can be parsed.

Does each channel include its source ranking page?

Yes. sourceRankingPageUrl points to the Playboard ranking page that produced the row. The row also includes direct YouTube and Playboard channel links.

Can I use this for historical rank changes?

No. Each run reads the selected ranking pages at that time. The Actor does not provide historical ranking archives, rank-change tracking, or alerts.

Does it read private YouTube or Playboard data?

No. It reads public Playboard ranking pages and does not cover private or login-gated data.

What if a selected page has fewer ranked channels?

The Actor returns the ranked entries available on that page, subject to the source page's current contents.

📝 Changelog

v0.0 (17-09-2026)

• Initial release.

🆘 Support

For issues, questions, or feature requests, file a ticket and I'll fix or implement it in less than 24h 🫡

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Made with ❤️ by Maxime Dupré