YouTube Channel Latest Post Date Tracker

Track the latest YouTube video or Short publish date for one or more channels. The actor accepts channel handles, channel IDs, and YouTube channel URLs, then exports the newest content metadata and exact publish timestamp.

Input

{
  "channel": ["@NVIDIA", "https://www.youtube.com/@OpenAI"],
  "type": "videos"
}

Input Fields

• channel: One or more YouTube channel handles, channel IDs, or channel URLs.
• type: videos for regular uploads or shorts for Shorts.

Output

Each dataset row represents one checked channel.

{
  "channel": "@NVIDIA",
  "type": "videos",
  "channelTitle": "NVIDIA",
  "channelId": "UCHuiy8bXnmK5nisYHUd1J5g",
  "latestPostTitle": "Announcing NVIDIA RTX Spark | GTC Taipei 2026 Keynote by CEO Jensen Huang",
  "latestPostUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11Y3B33oCLE",
  "latestPostId": "11Y3B33oCLE",
  "latestPostThumbnailUrl": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/11Y3B33oCLE/hqdefault.jpg",
  "latestPostRelativeTimeText": "22 hours ago",
  "viewCountText": "36K views",
  "lastPostTimeISO": "2026-06-04T16:00:33.000Z",
  "status": "ok",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-05T14:00:00.000Z"
}

Notes

The actor uses public YouTube pages and extracts the newest content ID from channel tab data, then reads the exact publish date from the content page. If a channel has no matching videos or Shorts, the actor writes a row with status set to no_posts_found.