YouTube Subscriber Count Scraper & Channel Statistics Monitor

Subscriber count, total views, video count, join date and country for any YouTube channel - and, with monitoring on, a channel comes back only when one of its counts actually moves, with the change since the last run. Unchanged channels are not returned as rows; each channel checked costs a small check fee.

Paste channels in any form, mixed in one list: @handle, a plain handle, a UC... channel id, a channel URL (/@name, /channel/UC..., /c/Name, /user/Name), or a video URL - for a video, the channel that uploaded it is read.

What the numbers are, exactly

All numbers come from the channel's public About panel (/@handle/about), the same panel you see when you click "more" on a channel page.

Column	What YouTube publishes	Rounded?
subscriberCount	"21.3M subscribers"	Yes, above 1,000 subscribers
totalViews	"5,633,505,202 views"	No
videoCount	"1,850 videos"	No

YouTube does not publish an exact subscriber count on the page. Above 1,000 subscribers it shows three significant figures (21.3M, 517M, 6.58M); below that it shows the full number (726). This Actor does not pretend otherwise:

• subscriberCount is the displayed figure as a number (21300000),
• subscriberCountIsRounded says whether it was abbreviated,
• subscriberCountPrecision is the smallest step that display can show (100000 for "21.3M", 1 for "726"),
• subscriberCountText is YouTube's own text.

Total views and video count on the About panel are not rounded, unlike the "1.8K videos" in the channel header, which is why they are read from the About panel and nothing else.

Measured on 2026-09-14:

Channel	subscriberCountText	subscriberCountPrecision	totalViews	videoCount
@mkbhd	21.3M subscribers	100000	5633505202	1850
@jawed	6.58M subscribers	10000	428280196	1
@kawsarlog	726 subscribers	1	17244	27
Music (auto-generated)	128M subscribers	1000000	null	null

Why every row names the channel it read

A YouTube channel page carries other channels' numbers too (recommended and featured channels). On the /@mkbhd/about page measured on 2026-09-14, the first subscriber count in the page source was 1.14M - a different channel - while Marques Brownlee's own 21.3M sat much further down. This Actor reads the numbers only from inside the About panel and returns a row only when the channel id in that panel matches the page's own channel id. Every row then states:

• channelId, handle and channelTitle - what YouTube returned,
• input and inputType - what you typed,
• channelMatchesInput - true/false when you typed a handle or channel id, null when you gave a /c/, /user/ or video URL (there is nothing to compare).

Monitoring mode

Turn monitoringMode on and schedule the Actor. It remembers each channel's counts and, on later runs:

• a channel whose counts have not moved is not returned as a row; it costs the check fee (see below), and if no channel moved you get one free no-change row;
• a channel whose counts moved comes back with previousSubscriberCount, subscriberDelta, previousTotalViews, totalViewsDelta, previousVideoCount, videoCountDelta, previousCheckedAt and changedFields;
• a channel it has never seen is returned once, so nothing is missed on the first run.

Choose what counts as a change with monitorMode:

• any-change - subscriber count, total views or video count moved. How often YouTube refreshes the total view count on the About panel has not been measured; for @mkbhd it did not move across four runs within about one minute on 2026-09-14.
• subscriber-change - the displayed subscriber count moved.
• video-change - the number of public videos moved (new uploads or removed videos).

Because the subscriber count is rounded, subscriberDelta is a difference of rounded figures: subscriberDeltaIsApproximate is true whenever either side was abbreviated. A large channel can show the same subscriber figure for days while it grows; totalViewsDelta and videoCountDelta are exact.

Counts are remembered per channel, not per list, in a store in your own account, so adding a channel to the list does not re-charge the others. resetMonitoringState clears them.

In monitoring mode every changed channel is returned; maxChannels does not apply. To cap what a monitoring run can cost, set the run's maximum total charge. Before checking each channel, the run makes sure the maximum leaves room for that check plus its row, so a low limit does not keep charging checks without returning anything: channels that did not fit are not checked, not charged, and named in a free not-read row. Raise the maximum total charge and they will be checked.

Do not put the same channel in two monitoring schedules that can run at the same time. Each run re-reads the remembered counts just before saving and only overwrites the channels it checked itself, so two overlapping runs with different channels keep each other's counts. But Apify's key-value store has no atomic update, so two runs saving the same channel at the same moment can still overwrite each other, and that channel may come back once more on a later run.

What it costs

• Channel row returned: $4.00 per 1,000 rows. With monitoring off, that is the only charge: one row per channel you listed.
• Channel checked (monitoring mode only): $0.30 per 1,000 checks - one per channel whose About panel was read and compared, whether or not it changed. This pays for watching on the days when nothing moved.
• The rows that explain a missing channel, a duplicate, "no change", "no filter match" or an unchecked channel are free. A channel that could not be read is not charged as a check. In monitoring mode, a run where nothing changed still charges one check per channel read.

Example: 100 channels checked once a day is about 3,000 checks a month, $0.90, plus $4.00 per 1,000 for the rows that actually changed (at most 3,000 rows, $12.00, if every channel changes every day).

Input

Field	Meaning
channels	One channel per line: @handle, handle, UC... id, channel URL or video URL. Up to 1,000 lines per run. The same channel given twice is read and charged once. Empty = @mkbhd as an example, and a row says so.
maxChannels	Maximum channel rows to return when monitoring is off (1-1,000, default 100). With filters off, reading stops once this many channels are read; with filters on, everything is read and the extra matches are counted in a free row. Not used in monitoring mode, where every changed channel is returned.
monitoringMode	Return a channel only when its counts change (see above).
monitorMode	any-change, subscriber-change or video-change.
resetMonitoringState	Forget the remembered counts.
minSubscribers / maxSubscribers	Compared with the displayed subscriber count. A channel that shows no subscriber count is kept.
countries	Keep channels whose About panel shows one of these countries, in English as YouTube writes them (United States, India). Channels showing no country are dropped when this is set.
onlyVerified	Keep channels with the Verified or Official Artist Channel badge.
keywords / keywordMatch / excludeKeywords	Match against title, description, handle and channel keywords.
useProxy	Pages are requested directly first; a proxy is used only when YouTube answers with a bot check, HTTP 429 or a page without channel data.

{
    "channels": ["@mkbhd", "veritasium", "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsXVk37bltHxD1rDPwtNM8Q", "https://youtu.be/jNQXAC9IVRw"],
    "monitoringMode": true,
    "monitorMode": "any-change"
}

Output

{
    "status": "ok",
    "input": "@mkbhd",
    "inputType": "handle",
    "channelId": "UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ",
    "handle": "@mkbhd",
    "channelTitle": "Marques Brownlee",
    "channelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ",
    "channelMatchesInput": true,
    "subscriberCount": 21300000,
    "subscriberCountText": "21.3M subscribers",
    "subscriberCountIsRounded": true,
    "subscriberCountPrecision": 100000,
    "totalViews": 5633505202,
    "totalViewsText": "5,633,505,202 views",
    "videoCount": 1850,
    "videoCountText": "1,850 videos",
    "joinedDate": "2008-03-21",
    "joinedDateText": "Joined Mar 21, 2008",
    "country": "United States",
    "isVerified": true,
    "channelBadge": "Verified",
    "description": "MKBHD: Quality Tech Videos | YouTuber | Geek | Consumer Electronics | Tech Head | Internet Personality! [email removed] NYC",
    "keywords": ["MKBHD", "MarquesBrownlee", "Marques", "Brownlee"],
    "links": ["Twitter: twitter.com/MKBHD", "Instagram: instagram.com/MKBHD"],
    "isFamilySafe": true,
    "isFirstCheck": true,
    "subscriberDelta": null,
    "totalViewsDelta": null,
    "videoCountDelta": null,
    "changedFields": []
}

Values YouTube does not show are null, never 0. On 2026-09-14 the auto-generated Music channel showed no total views, video count or country; @YouTube showed no join date; @NASA and @Google showed no country. E-mail addresses and phone numbers written into a channel description are replaced with [email removed] / [phone removed]. Links are returned as the channel typed them, without an added https://.

Rows you are never charged for

Every row below explains why there is no channel data, and costs nothing:

• no-such-channel - YouTube has no channel at that handle or id (HTTP 404). YouTube search is not used, so a typo is not guessed for you.
• no-such-video - a video URL whose video YouTube did not return, so its channel could not be found.
• invalid-input - a line that is not a handle, channel id, channel URL or video URL (for example a search, playlist or hashtag URL).
• blocked - YouTube answered with a bot check on every attempt.
• unreadable - the page could not be read, or its About panel named a different channel than the page itself.
• no-results - the page loaded but showed no subscriber, view or video count.
• duplicate - a line that resolved to a channel already read in the same run.
• no-change - monitoring: none of the channels changed since the last run. The row is free; the checks behind it are charged as described above.
• no-match - channels were read but none matched your filters.
• not-read - lines left unread (or filter matches not returned) because maxChannels was reached, the 1,000-line limit was passed, or, in monitoring mode, the run's maximum total charge left no room to check them and return their row.
• budget-reached - the run reached the maximum total charge you set; the row says how many channels were delivered.
• example-input - the input was empty and @mkbhd was read as an example.

How it reads YouTube

• Only paths that YouTube's robots.txt does not disallow are requested: /@handle/about, /channel/UC.../about, /c/.../about, /user/.../about, and /oembed for video links. /results, /feeds/videos.xml, /youtubei/ and /api/ are never requested.
• One request per channel (two for a video URL). A short pause between channels.
• Measured on this Actor on 2026-09-14 from Apify: 10 input lines (7 channels returned, 3 rows explaining a missing channel, a search URL and a duplicate) took 11.4 seconds with no proxy needed, at a platform cost of $0.0004 for the run.
• Pages are requested in English (hl=en&gl=US) so the numbers are always written the same way.
• From Apify, the About page was returned with channel data on 4 of 4 direct requests and 4 of 4 datacenter-proxy requests when measured on 2026-09-14. That can change; bot checks are detected and retried rather than returned as empty data.

Limits

• The subscriber count is YouTube's rounded display, not an exact figure. No public page shows the exact number.
• Hidden subscriber counts: no channel with a hidden count was found for testing, so what YouTube shows for one has not been measured; such a channel would get subscriberCount: null.
• Private analytics (watch time, revenue, demographics) are not public and are not returned.