YouTube Channel Monitor & Scraper — New Videos Only, No API Key

Watch YouTube channels and get back only what changed: videos published since your last run, how their view counts moved, and how the subscriber count shifted.

No API key. No quota. No browser automation — just fast HTTP requests, which is why a run over several channels finishes in seconds.

Built for competitor tracking, creator research and content alerting — anywhere you need to know when something new goes up rather than re-downloading the same catalogue every day.

Nothing new, nothing to pay

Most YouTube scrapers hand you the same videos on every run and bill you for all of them. This one remembers what it already gave you.

• A channel is charged only when it returns at least one new video
• Videos delivered in a previous run are never charged again
• Unreachable channels and runs that find nothing new cost nothing

Your first run has nothing to compare against, so it returns the current videos as a baseline. From the second run onward you get only the difference.

Why not the official API?

The YouTube Data API gives every project a daily quota that a few hundred channel checks can exhaust, and it requires a Google Cloud project and key management. This actor reads the same public channel pages a visitor sees — no key, no quota, no project setup.

What you get per channel

Field	Contents
channel	Title, channel ID, handle, description, subscriber count, total video count
subscriberGrowth	Subscriber change since your previous run
newVideos	How many new videos this run found
videos[]	Each new video: ID, URL, title, view count, publish time
videos[].viewGrowth	How much each video's views moved since last time
firstRun	Whether this was the baseline run for that channel
charged	Whether this row was billed

Exact view counts

Channel pages round view counts (60M views). Set exactViewCounts: true and each new video is fetched individually for the precise number — 60,669,379 instead of 60,000,000 — along with its exact publish date, duration, description and keywords.

Input

{
  "channels": ["@MrBeast", "@NASA", "UCX6OQ3DkcsbYNE6H8uQQuVA"],
  "newVideosOnly": true,
  "trackViewGrowth": true,
  "exactViewCounts": false,
  "maxVideosPerChannel": 30
}

Handles, channel IDs and full channel URLs all work. Duplicates and malformed entries are dropped before any work starts, so you are never billed for them.

Output

{
  "channel": {
    "title": "MrBeast",
    "channelId": "UCX6OQ3DkcsbYNE6H8uQQuVA",
    "handle": "MrBeast",
    "subscribers": 512000000,
    "videoCount": 997
  },
  "subscriberGrowth": 100000,
  "newVideos": 1,
  "videos": [
    {
      "videoId": "Af6i6ChAVTw",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af6i6ChAVTw",
      "title": "Last To Leave Mansion, Keeps It",
      "views": 60669379,
      "publishedText": "3 days ago",
      "isNew": true,
      "viewGrowth": 669379
    }
  ],
  "firstRun": false,
  "charged": true
}

Pricing

Event	Price	When
channel-checked	$0.002	A channel returned at least one new video
new-video	$0.002	Per new video delivered

Checking a channel that has nothing new triggers neither event. Watching 10 channels daily, where two of them post once a week, costs a few cents a month.

Scheduling

This actor is built to run on a schedule. Point it at your channels, run it hourly or daily, and each run hands you just the new material. Combine it with Apify integrations to push new videos straight to Slack, a webhook or a spreadsheet.

Data sources

Public YouTube channel and video pages only. No login, no cookies, no API key, no browser. The actor stays inside the paths YouTube's robots.txt allows and never touches its search, API or player endpoints.

Your responsibility

Results describe public channels and videos, and may include creator names and descriptions. Make sure your intended use complies with the law in your jurisdiction and with YouTube's own terms. If you are unsure whether your use case qualifies, consult your lawyer.

Disclaimer

This is an unofficial actor. It is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by YouTube or Google LLC. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.