YouTube Channel Community Scraper

Collect posts from a YouTube channel Community tab and export one row per item.

Key Features

• Required Channel ID (id)
• Collect up to your chosen maximum number of posts; continues with cursor paging until that limit or until there are no more pages
• Typical fields include type, post.postId, post.text, post.publishedTimeText, post.stats, post.author, and post.attachment (e.g. image sets)
• Each record includes scrapedAt (ISO 8601)

Why Use It?

• Practical: Snapshot a channel's community activity in structured form
• Structured: JSON rows ready for analysis, monitoring, and automation
• Reliable: Cursor-based pagination until cap or feed end

Great For

• Community engagement monitoring
• Creator posting cadence tracking
• Competitor community content audits

Input Parameters

Parameter	Required	Description
id	Yes	YouTube channel ID.
maxResults	No	Maximum rows to collect (default: 48).

Output

Each dataset row is one item from contents[] plus scrapedAt appended by the actor.

Area	Field	Description
Root	type	Item type returned by the feed.
Root	post	Community post object payload.
Root	scrapedAt	Collection timestamp (ISO 8601).
post	postId	Community post ID.
post	text	Post text (when available).
post	publishedTimeText	Relative publish time text.
post	stats.likes	Like count when available.
post	stats.comments	Comment count when available.
post	author.title	Author display name.
post	author.channelId	Author channel ID.
post	author.canonicalBaseUrl	Author channel handle/base URL path when available.
post	author.avatar	Author avatar image variants with different sizes.
post	attachment.type	Attachment kind (e.g. images).
post	attachment.images	Image groups when the post includes photos.
attachment.images[]	source[]	Image size variants (url, width, height).

Sample record

{
  "post": {
    "attachment": {
      "images": [
        {
          "source": [
            {
              "height": 288,
              "url": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/g2ZkpUd6U73HcEswaIjNM9Zhk33fFnjWBslqJRQbEB95Zr4dCFFumw8UAkC2BpWiv65bOVCG5Wi_0g=s288-c-fcrop64=1,00000000ffffffff-rw-nd-v1",
              "width": 288
            },
            {
              "height": 400,
              "url": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/g2ZkpUd6U73HcEswaIjNM9Zhk33fFnjWBslqJRQbEB95Zr4dCFFumw8UAkC2BpWiv65bOVCG5Wi_0g=s400-c-fcrop64=1,00000000ffffffff-rw-nd-v1",
              "width": 400
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "source": [
            {
              "height": 288,
              "url": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/NDDNxUJveCrBE5vxITenRK3FB78__FO68iwabAEn7FiG31VAvz8DwleLrJYkCdGsLWSNThYaZO_zQg=s288-c-fcrop64=1,00000000ffffffff-rw-nd-v1",
              "width": 288
            },
            {
              "height": 400,
              "url": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/NDDNxUJveCrBE5vxITenRK3FB78__FO68iwabAEn7FiG31VAvz8DwleLrJYkCdGsLWSNThYaZO_zQg=s400-c-fcrop64=1,00000000ffffffff-rw-nd-v1",
              "width": 400
            }
          ]
        }
      ],
      "type": "images"
    },
    "author": {
      "avatar": [
        {
          "height": 32,
          "url": "https://yt3.googleusercontent.com/WZ_63J_-745xyW_DGxGi3VUyTZAe0Jvhw2ZCg7fdz-tv9esTbNPZTFR9X79QzA0ArIrMjYJCDA=s32-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj-mo",
          "width": 32
        }
      ],
      "canonicalBaseUrl": "/@GoogleDevelopers",
      "channelId": "UC_x5XG1OV2P6uZZ5FSM9Ttw",
      "title": "Google for Developers"
    },
    "postId": "UgkxPZZsModS3W475sorobWJ4finx06wvGtF",
    "publishedTimeText": "14 hours ago",
    "stats": {
      "comments": 9,
      "likes": 277
    },
    "text": "A quick JavaScript brain teaser. We start with an array created using new Array(3). Then we run a small piece of code that looks completely reasonable.\\n\\n At the end, we log a value, which may not be what you expected. What number appears, and why? → https://youtube.com/shorts/kXIgLG9INQU \\n\\nWatch the video and share your answer in the comments."
  },
  "type": "post",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-03-24T06:43:14.286Z"
}

Notes

• Returned fields vary by post type and attachment availability.
• Respect YouTube terms and applicable laws when using scraped data.