# YouTube Channel Videos Scraper (`piotrv1001/youtube-channel-videos-scraper`) Actor

List every video, Short or live stream of any YouTube channel: title, URL, views, duration, publish time and thumbnail, plus channel name, handle and subscriber count. Latest, popular or oldest first. Paste channel URLs, @handles or IDs and export to JSON or CSV.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/piotrv1001/youtube-channel-videos-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [FalconScrape](https://apify.com/piotrv1001) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media, Videos, Lead generation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 1 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.50 / 1,000 videos

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

### 🚀 YouTube Channel Videos Scraper

List **every video, Short or live stream of any YouTube channel**. The **YouTube Channel Videos Scraper** returns each video's title, URL, view count, duration, publish time and thumbnail, together with the channel's name, @handle, ID and subscriber count. Sort by latest, most popular or oldest, and paste channel URLs, @handles or channel IDs in bulk. Use it to track competitors, audit creators for influencer campaigns, find a channel's top performers or collect video URLs for transcripts and comments.

### ✨ Features

- 🎬 **Videos, Shorts or Live**: Scrape the channel tab you need.
- 🔃 **Latest, Popular or Oldest**: The same sorting as the channel page.
- 📈 **Performance Data**: Views, duration and publish time for every video.
- 👥 **Channel Stats on Every Row**: Channel name, @handle, ID, URL, subscriber count and video count.
- 🔗 **Any Channel Format**: `youtube.com/@handle`, `/channel/UC…`, `/c/…`, `/user/…`, a bare `@handle` or a channel ID.
- 📦 **Bulk Channels**: Many channels per run, each with its own limit.

### 🛠️ How It Works

1. **Paste channels** – URLs, @handles or channel IDs, one per line.
2. **Choose the tab, order and how many videos per channel** – the default is the 50 latest videos.
3. **Run the Scraper** – download the list as JSON, CSV or Excel or pull it through the API.

### ⚙️ Input

| Field                       | What it does                                                      |
| --------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Channels**                | Channel URLs, @handles or channel IDs (UC…), one per line.        |
| **Content**                 | `videos`, `shorts` or `live` (live streams and past streams).     |
| **Sort by**                 | `latest`, `popular` or `oldest`.                                  |
| **Max videos per channel**  | Stop after this many videos for each channel. Default 50.         |

```json
{
    "channels": ["https://www.youtube.com/@freecodecamp", "@MrBeast"],
    "contentType": "videos",
    "sortBy": "popular",
    "maxItems": 200
}
```

Shorts rows have the title and view count only: YouTube's Shorts tab does not show the duration or publish time.

### 💰 Pricing

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

| Event           | Price                                  | What you get                                       |
| --------------- | -------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------- |
| **Video**       | $0.0005 per video ($0.50 per 1,000)    | One video, Short or stream with the fields below   |
| **Actor start** | $0.00005 per run                       | Charged once when the run starts.                  |

Examples: 50 videos from 10 channels = $0.25 · 10,000 videos = $5.00.

### 📊 Sample Output Data

```json
{
    "videoId": "QKNsHZatiWU",
    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKNsHZatiWU",
    "type": "videos",
    "title": "Building an AI Data Center – Grid Power, Liquid Cooling, & Cloud Economics",
    "viewCount": 90000,
    "viewCountText": "90K views",
    "publishedTimeText": "17 hours ago",
    "durationText": "7:48:06",
    "durationSeconds": 28086,
    "isLive": false,
    "isUpcoming": false,
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/QKNsHZatiWU/hq720.jpg",
    "channelId": "UC8butISFwT-Wl7EV0hUK0BQ",
    "channelName": "freeCodeCamp.org",
    "channelHandle": "@freecodecamp",
    "channelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8butISFwT-Wl7EV0hUK0BQ",
    "channelSubscriberCount": 11900000,
    "channelVideoCount": 2300,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-17T05:49:08.054Z"
}
```

### ❓ FAQ

**Do I need a YouTube account or API key?** No.

**Why are view and subscriber counts rounded?** The channel page shows them rounded (90K, 11.9M); `viewCount` is that number as an integer and `viewCountText` keeps the original text.

**I entered a channel's @handle and its channel ID. Is it scraped twice?** No. Both resolve to the same channel, which is scraped and charged once.

### 🔗 More YouTube Actors

- [YouTube Transcript Scraper](https://apify.com/piotrv1001/youtube-transcript-scraper): full transcripts with timestamps for any list of videos, in the language you pick.
- [YouTube Comments Scraper](https://apify.com/piotrv1001/youtube-comments-scraper): comments and replies with likes, authors, pinned and hearted flags.
- [YouTube Search Scraper](https://apify.com/piotrv1001/youtube-search-scraper): search results for any keyword with date, length and view filters.

# Actor input Schema

## `channels` (type: `array`):

Channel URLs, @handles or channel IDs (UC…), one per line.

## `contentType` (type: `string`):

Which channel tab to scrape.

## `sortBy` (type: `string`):

Order of the channel tab.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many videos for each channel.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "channels": [
    "https://www.youtube.com/@freecodecamp"
  ],
  "contentType": "videos",
  "sortBy": "latest",
  "maxItems": 50
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "channels": [
        "https://www.youtube.com/@freecodecamp"
    ],
    "maxItems": 50
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("piotrv1001/youtube-channel-videos-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "channels": ["https://www.youtube.com/@freecodecamp"],
    "maxItems": 50,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("piotrv1001/youtube-channel-videos-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "channels": [
    "https://www.youtube.com/@freecodecamp"
  ],
  "maxItems": 50
}' |
apify call piotrv1001/youtube-channel-videos-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,piotrv1001/youtube-channel-videos-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/KwoIF9aY5MpFU6v7D/builds/0DkFLRHXntbQCkf2i/openapi.json