YouTube Channel Scraper - every video, Short and live stream plus channel stats

Paste YouTube channel links or @handles and get one row with the channel's public stats, followed by its videos, Shorts and past live streams.

• Channel stats in the same run. Subscribers, total views, video count, join date, country, description, keywords, avatar and the external links the channel lists.
• Videos, Shorts and lives, in YouTube's own order. Set a limit per tab and choose Latest, Most popular or Oldest for the Videos and Shorts tabs. The Live tab is always newest first. A tab limit of 0 skips that tab.
• One flat price per row. Pay per result, at the rate shown in the pricing panel of this page, plus a very small per-run start fee. You are charged only for the results delivered. Channel rows and Shorts cost the same as video rows.

What you get

Every row has recordType = channel (one per channel, written first) or video. Video rows carry type = video, short or stream.

Channel row (shortened):

{"recordType":"channel","channelId":"UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ","channelName":"Marques Brownlee","handle":"@mkbhd","channelUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd","subscriberCountText":"21.4M subscribers","subscriberCountApprox":21400000,"totalViews":5796591204,"videoCount":1859,"joinedDate":"2008-03-21","country":"United States","links":[{"title":"Twitter","url":"https://twitter.com/MKBHD"}],"scrapedAt":"2026-10-19T08:19:50.534Z"}

Short row:

{"recordType":"video","type":"short","videoId":"R6yNUnRXZ64","url":"https://www.youtube.com/shorts/R6yNUnRXZ64","title":"iPhone Duo is here","viewCountText":"8.3M views","viewCountApprox":8300000,"publishedText":null,"durationText":null,"durationSeconds":null,"thumbnailUrl":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/R6yNUnRXZ64/hqdefault.jpg","position":1,"sortBy":"latest","channelId":"UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ","channelName":"Marques Brownlee","handle":"@mkbhd","scrapedAt":"2026-10-19T08:19:53.541Z"}

• viewCountText is the text YouTube shows (5.3M views); viewCountApprox is that text as a number, so it is rounded the way YouTube rounds it. It is null when YouTube shows no view count. A stream that is live right now has no view count, publish date or duration yet, so those three are null until it ends.
• publishedText is YouTube's relative date (15 hours ago, Streamed 8 years ago), not a calendar date. It and durationText / durationSeconds are empty for Shorts, because the Shorts tab does not show them.
• position counts rows in the order you asked for; sortBy says the order that was really applied (latest if the channel has too few videos for YouTube to offer a sort).
• Not included: exact view counts, publish dates, descriptions and tags of individual videos, and channel business emails (YouTube shows those only to signed-in users).

Input

Field	Default	What it does
channels	none (prefilled with one example)	Channel URLs (@handle, /channel/UC..., /c/..., /user/...), bare @handles or channel IDs.
maxVideos	30 (max 10000)	Videos per channel. 0 skips the Videos tab.
maxShorts	0 (max 10000)	Shorts per channel. 0 skips the Shorts tab.
maxStreams	0 (max 10000)	Past live streams per channel. 0 skips the Live tab.
sortBy	latest	latest, popular or oldest for videos and Shorts.
proxyConfiguration	Apify datacenter proxy	Proxy used for all requests.

At least one channel is required, otherwise the run fails with a message. Inputs that are not YouTube channels, or that do not resolve, are listed in the FAILURES record of the run's key-value store and are not charged. A channel with no Shorts or Live tab simply returns no rows for that tab. The same channel given twice is scraped once, and a video that appears on two tabs is written once.

Measured behaviour

Platform runs on 2026-10-19 with the default datacenter proxy and 512 MB of memory:

• @mkbhd + @RickAstleyYT, 40 videos + 20 Shorts + 5 streams each: 128 rows (2 channel rows, 80 videos, 40 Shorts, 6 streams; Rick Astley has 1 stream) in 7 seconds. title and url were filled in 100% of video rows, viewCountApprox in 99.2%, durationSeconds in 100% of regular videos.
• @mkbhd, sortBy popular, 5 videos: the five rows came back in descending order of views (40M, 28M, 28M, 23M, 22M).
• No request was blocked on the default proxy in any of the four test runs (0 of 4 runs).
• Peak memory was 69 MB on the small run and 93 MB on a 2,678-row run.

Stopping early, blocks and the run summary

• The run keeps a time budget. If it is close to the run timeout (for example a very large list of channels with 10,000-row limits), it starts no new request, pushes what it has collected and ends as succeeded. The RUN_SUMMARY record (complete, terminationReason, rowsPushed) says whether the run finished or stopped early. terminationReason is one of finished, max_results, charge_limit, time_budget, blocked or request_failed. Checked with a 45-second timeout on four large channels: the run ended as succeeded after 36 seconds with 2,678 rows and time_budget.
• If YouTube answers with HTTP 403, a consent page or a sign-in page, the actor stops at once with the message YouTube blocked the request (HTTP <status>); stopping. and keeps the rows already written. It never retries a block and never changes proxy or headers. Run again later.
• Temporary errors (HTTP 429 and 5xx, network errors) are retried three times with 2, 4 and 8 second waits.

Privacy

Only public, logged-out YouTube pages are read: no login, no cookies. Email addresses and phone numbers in channel descriptions, keywords, link titles, channel names and video titles are replaced with [email redacted] and [phone redacted] (best effort on the formats it recognises).

Keywords

youtube channel scraper, youtube shorts scraper, youtube video list, channel videos, youtube statistics, subscriber count, youtube analytics, most popular videos