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Youtube Channel Scraper

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Scrape YouTube channels or keyword searches for video URLs, titles, metrics, transcripts, channel profiles, social links, descriptions and more. Fast, low-cost YouTube data extraction for monitoring, influencer research, SEO, and LLM workflows.

Pricing

from $0.50 / 1,000 direct video results

Rating

4.3

(8)

Developer

Newbs

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Monthly active users

2 hours ago

Last modified

2026-10-03 - Detail and caption latency

Prioritize caption/player/comment requests ahead of queued watch-page downloads so in-progress proxy results can finish.
Stream completed adaptive retries immediately and avoid retrying exhausted video budgets.
Recover captions through lightweight player requests before downloading another proxy watch page; retain the watch-page fallback when needed.
Try alternative player caption sources before exhausting many empty watch-page language tracks; stop repeating an HTTP-blocked player endpoint on the same route.
Reuse collected channel profiles, overlap independent comments/profile work, cache duplicate caption attempts, and cancel redundant alternatives after a usable transcript is found.
Default adaptive caption recovery to eight video jobs. Normal detail extraction stays at 20 workers.
Add first-result and per-phase timings to OUTPUT. Existing prices, result charging rules, and per-video/shared spending safeguards remain in place.

2026-10-03 - Concurrency tuning

Restore 20 simultaneous video-detail jobs by default at 512 MB and 1,024 MB after hosted comparisons with 5 and 10 workers.
Respect explicitly lower concurrency settings, retaining the shared two-request proxy limit, recovery budgets, and failure diagnostics.
Replace the earlier estimated memory-based detail cap with the measured maximum of 20; Basic mode is unaffected.

2026-10-03 - Result quality and runtime safeguards

Exclude advertising links and sponsored blocks before counting or exporting results.
Add basic/full collection mode, details status, a Basic results view, and sanitized row error fields without removing existing fields.
Limit proxy work across the run using successful-result allowances, transfer cancellation, request concurrency, and repeated-failure detection.
Cap detail concurrency for the available memory, stop new work after fatal worker errors, and retain completed results.
Persist progress and failure diagnostics in OUTPUT; log sanitized stacks and launch Node directly.
Keep direct and proxy event prices and one-charge-per-successful-video behavior unchanged.

2026-09-16 - Channel reliability fixes

Resolve UC channel IDs directly and require exact identity matches for search recovery.
Normalize channel tabs and video URLs; reject unsupported hosts and malformed inputs.
Recover transport errors and HTTP-200 challenge responses, keeping proxy transport for pagination.
Preserve collected videos on pagination failure, honor zero-page and transcript retry limits, and skip About fetches in list-only mode.
Save source diagnostics to OUTPUT and propagate genuine failures through the Actor lifecycle.
Add deterministic regressions and six bounded live Actor smoke checks.

Changelog

2026-09-15

Prepared two exclusive result prices: $0.50 per 1,000 direct video results and $8 per 1,000 proxy-assisted video results, including run platform usage. The Pricing tab determines when the new rates become effective.
Added per-video proxy-use accounting and mixed-price spending-limit checks. Each successful video is charged once; failed and partial rows remain free.
Bounded per-video work across retries, reduced duplicate caption-format downloads, and lowered default memory to 512 MB with a 1,024 MB maximum.
Prepared video-result pay-per-event billing for successful videos, preserving existing rental behavior until the pricing migration takes effect.
Kept partial results, failed rows, and Shorts-only guidance free, with available captions included in each successful video result.
Serialized result writes and charges, prevented duplicate video billing, and added graceful stopping at the run spending limit.
Added SDK-backed billing tests covering failed writes, concurrent workers, batch limits, and rental compatibility.

2026-08-09

Removed source diagnostic rows from the default dataset so exports contain video records only.
Removed resultType, message, and sourceStatusCode from video results and dataset views.
Kept Shorts-only and source failure explanations in run logs and the final run status.
Added one actionable shorts_only guidance row when a channel contains Shorts but no normal videos, including a direct link to the separate YouTube Shorts Scraper.
Normalized Markdown-wrapped channel links such as [URL](URL) before collection.

2026-06-11

Added visible source_status dataset rows for Shorts-only and failed channel sources, including a readable message and machine-readable status code.
Added resultType: "video" to normal video rows so integrations can separate videos from source diagnostics.
Added explicit diagnostics for Shorts-only channels so a successful empty run no longer looks like an unexplained scraper failure. The actor still excludes Shorts by design.
Empty HTTP 200 channel pages now retry through the canonical channel ID before being classified as having no normal videos.
Added proxy-backed source collection retry for proxyMode: "auto" when YouTube throttles channel or search listing pages with statuses such as 429.
Added a channel search resolver for broken YouTube handle/vanity redirects, so URLs like @mktv can recover through the stable channel ID URL instead of returning zero rows when YouTube redirects the handle to a dead custom path.
Raised the default HTTP video-detail concurrency for hosted runs and added adaptiveTranscriptRetryConcurrency so transcript-heavy multi-channel runs can finish faster.
Batched final dataset writes for rows held during transcript recovery, reducing the chance that a short external run timeout leaves users with only early no-transcript rows.
Added videoDetailProxyStrategy so hosted runs can test proxy-first video detail scraping without proxying channel/search collection.
Added transcriptMode with standard and aggressive modes, while preserving the older residential transcript fallback option for compatibility.
Added adaptive transcript proxy recovery in standard mode so batches with poor direct transcript coverage can retry missing captions without making every successful run pay the aggressive fallback cost.
Bounded adaptive transcript recovery on larger runs with a round-robin retry sample across channels, preventing 100+ result runs from spending the whole timeout retrying every missing transcript while still retrying up to 80 missing transcript rows by default.
Added transcriptStatus, transcriptSource, and transcriptLanguage to make transcript availability easier to diagnose in Apify dataset views.
Stream completed dataset rows during processing so large runs preserve completed videos instead of waiting until the very end.
Improved publish-date parsing from exact watch-page date text before falling back to relative publishedTimeText.
Kept this actor focused on normal YouTube videos; Shorts collection belongs in the separate YouTube Shorts Scraper actor.
Made proxyMode: "auto" cheaper by stopping default residential retries for transcript-only misses; transcript proxy fallback now only runs when explicitly enabled.
Added stronger direct retries for incomplete video metadata before proxy fallback, and avoid caching failed channel About lookups as permanent misses.
Added hard HTTP request timeouts and relative publish-date recovery so slow proxy requests cannot hang a run and hosted rows do not lose publishedAt when YouTube only exposes publishedTimeText.
Improved direct video URL handling for youtu.be, /embed/, and /live/ formats.
Added direct retry recovery for transient high-concurrency video detail failures.
Added channel About/profile retry recovery for transient channel link and metadata misses.
Made multi-source runs resilient when one channel URL fails; valid sources still return rows and source errors are reported in run metadata.

2026-05-01

Improved video detail speed with parallel channel and video processing.
Added automatic proxy fallback mode to reduce residential proxy cost.
Improved transcript extraction using direct caption tracks before slower UI fallback.
Added richer channel metadata extraction for subscriber count, total videos, total views, profile image, banner image, and verification status.
Added dataset and output schemas so Apify users, APIs, and AI agents can understand the returned fields.
Reworked README and input descriptions for clearer setup, use cases, speed guidance, and transcript expectations.

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