YouTube Channel Info Scraper

🚀 YouTube Channel Info Scraper: Subscriber Count and Channel Stats

Look up any YouTube channel and get its subscriber count, total views, video count, joined date, country, description, external links, avatar, banner and verified badge as clean JSON, CSV or Excel. The YouTube Channel Info Scraper takes channel URLs, @handles or channel IDs in bulk and returns one row per channel. Use it as a YouTube channel lookup for influencer research, as a bulk YouTube subscriber count checker, or as a simple alternative to a YouTube channel API.

🎯 Use Cases

• Bulk YouTube subscriber count check: paste hundreds of channels and get their subscriber, view and video counts in one table.
• YouTube channel stats tracking: schedule a daily run and build your own history of subscribers and total views for your channel and your competitors.
• Influencer research and vetting: check country, joined date, verified badge, links and keywords before you contact a creator.
• YouTube channel ID finder: turn @handles and old /user/ or /c/ URLs into permanent channel IDs (UC…) and RSS feed URLs.
• Creator databases and CRMs: enrich a list of channels with descriptions, social links, avatars and banners.

✨ Features

• Channel statistics: subscriber count, exact total view count, video count and joined date.
• Profile data: title, @handle, channel ID, description, country, keywords, family-safe flag.
• External links: every link from the channel's About section (Instagram, TikTok, X, website…) as a clean URL.
• Images: avatar (900 px) and banner (2560 px) URLs.
• Badges: verified checkmark and official artist channel flag.
• Business email flag: hasBusinessEmail tells you whether the channel lists a business email.
• Any channel format: youtube.com/@handle, /channel/UC…, /c/…, /user/…, a bare @handle or a channel ID.
• No duplicates: a channel entered as a @handle and as an ID is looked up and charged once.

🛠️ How It Works

1. Paste channels: URLs, @handles or channel IDs, one per line.
2. Set Max channels if you want to stop early: the default is 50.
3. Run the scraper and download the table, or pull it through the API.

⚙️ Input

Field	What it does
Channels	Channel URLs, @handles or channel IDs (UC…), one per line.
Max channels	Stop after this many channels. Default 50.

{
    "channels": [
        "https://www.youtube.com/@MrBeast",
        "@markrober",
        "UC8butISFwT-Wl7EV0hUK0BQ",
        "https://www.youtube.com/user/PewDiePie"
    ],
    "maxItems": 100
}

💰 Pricing

Pay only for the channels you get. No monthly rental.

Event	Price	What you get
Channel	$0.002 per channel ($2.00 per 1,000)	One channel profile with all fields below
Actor start	$0.00005 per run	Charged once when the run starts.

Examples: 3 channels = $0.006 · 100 channels = $0.20 · 1,000 channels = $2.00. Channels that don't exist are listed in the run status and not charged.

📊 Sample Output Data

{
    "channelId": "UCY1kMZp36IQSyNx_9h4mpCg",
    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY1kMZp36IQSyNx_9h4mpCg",
    "handle": "@MarkRober",
    "handleUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/@MarkRober",
    "title": "Mark Rober",
    "description": "Former NASA engineer. Current CrunchLabs founder and friend of science…",
    "subscriberCount": 84300000,
    "subscriberCountText": "84.3M subscribers",
    "viewCount": 19535634751,
    "videoCount": 273,
    "joinedDate": "2011-10-19",
    "country": "United States",
    "links": [
        { "title": "CrunchLabs!!", "url": "https://crunchlabs.com" },
        { "title": "Instagram", "url": "https://www.instagram.com/markrober" },
        { "title": "TikTok", "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@markrober" }
    ],
    "hasBusinessEmail": true,
    "isVerified": true,
    "isVerifiedArtist": false,
    "isFamilySafe": true,
    "keywords": ["DIY", "Creative", "Design", "Hack", "mark rober", "nasa"],
    "avatarUrl": "https://yt3.googleusercontent.com/ytc/AIdro_ksXY2REjZ6gYKSgnWT5jC_zT9mX900vyFtVinR8KbHww=s900-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj",
    "bannerUrl": "https://yt3.googleusercontent.com/MpHjfKLT09ZFt2efg6wW9r6qiKJpPhP8TWV15NJXD6ZYsekvY2dFlTR11ydf-psl7AjX4M_ikw=w2560-fcrop64=1,00005a57ffffa5a8-k-c0xffffffff-no-nd-rj",
    "rssUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCY1kMZp36IQSyNx_9h4mpCg",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-21T17:24:04.713Z"
}

viewCount and videoCount are exact. subscriberCount is the rounded number YouTube shows (84.3M), and subscriberCountText keeps the original text. rssUrl is the channel's public feed of new uploads.

🔁 Schedule and Integrate

To track YouTube channel stats, run it once a day with the same channel list: each run is a dated snapshot of subscribers, views and video counts. Set it up in Apify Schedules. Send the results to Google Sheets, Zapier, Make, n8n or a webhook with Apify integrations.

🤖 Use with AI Agents (MCP)

This Actor works as a tool in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other MCP clients through the Apify MCP server (https://mcp.apify.com). An agent can call it with:

{ "channels": ["@MrBeast", "@markrober"] }

❓ FAQ

Does YouTube have an official API for channel stats? Yes, the YouTube Data API returns channel statistics, but it needs a Google Cloud project, an API key and a daily quota. It doesn't return the links from the channel's About section. This Actor needs no key and returns all of them in one row per channel.

How do I check a YouTube subscriber count for many channels at once? Paste the channels (URLs, @handles or IDs) into Channels and run. You get one row per channel with subscriberCount, viewCount and videoCount.

How do I find a YouTube channel ID? Enter the @handle or channel URL. channelId (UC…) is the permanent ID, and it stays the same when the channel changes its handle.

Can it get the channel's business email? No. YouTube shows the email only to signed-in users after a captcha. hasBusinessEmail tells you whether the channel lists one, so you know which creators to contact through the About page.

Do I need a YouTube account? No.

Why is country empty? The channel didn't set a country. Some official artist channels don't show one.

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