🎯 YouTube Channel Scraper

📋 Introduction

The YouTube Channel Scraper is a comprehensive, user-friendly tool designed for extracting detailed information about YouTube channels. This powerful utility streamlines the collection of essential data, enabling thorough analysis and insights into channel performance, content strategy, and audience engagement. It's an ideal solution for researchers, marketing professionals, content creators, and social media analysts aiming to optimize their YouTube strategies.

🛠 Main Features

• 📄 Channel Overview: Retrieve key information such as channel description, video count, subscribers count, and verification status.
• 🔑 Keyword and Tag Analysis: Extract keywords and tags used by the channel for enhanced SEO and content strategy.
• 📈 Performance Metrics: Gather data on video counts, view counts, and subscriber trends to assess channel growth and engagement.
• 🗂 Comprehensive Insights: Obtain detailed channel insights, including the channel's description, keywords, tags, and country of origin.
• 🔗 Social Media Links: Collect and display links to the channel's associated social media profiles and other important links.
• 📊 Versatile Use Cases: Suitable for a wide range of purposes, from analyzing content strategies to conducting market research, tracking channel growth, and optimizing SEO efforts.
• 🎯 Flexible Data Export Options: Supports exporting data in various formats such as JSON, CSV, Excel, or HTML, catering to different analytical needs.

📋 Getting Started

To start using the YouTube Channel Scraper:

1. Navigate to the tool on the Apify Store.
2. Enter the URL(s) of the YouTube channel(s) you are interested in analyzing.
3. Click "Save & Start" to kick off the data extraction process.
4. Download the compiled data in your chosen format for further analysis and integration into your projects.

Input Configuration

Configure your scraping task with inputs in JSON format, as shown below:

1{
2  "startUrls": [
3    {
4      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/@Apify"
5    }
6  ]
7}

Output Overview

Following a successful data extraction, the output is neatly organized in a structured table format. This table provides key metrics and insights from the analyzed YouTube channels, delivering a clear, comprehensive overview of the data collected.

1{
2  "channel_name": "Apify",
3  "channel_urls": ["http://www.youtube.com/@Apify"],
4  "thumbnail_url": "https://yt3.googleusercontent.com/0C0AcuOEiqNP-o03aAu21FOLlIYgRjGAO6Y4SZH8TFgfQG1jEro5ydVeGSx15VNcMryQ5GpV=s900-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj",
5  "tags": [
6    "web automation",
7    "web scraping",
8    "web crawling",
9    "apify",
10    "node.js",
11    "javascript",
12    "RPA",
13    "data extraction",
14    "crawlee",
15    "data for AI",
16    "RAG",
17    "retrieval augmented generation",
18    "GPT"
19  ],
20  "keywords": "\"web automation\" \"web scraping\" \"web crawling\" apify node.js javascript RPA \"data extraction\" crawlee \"data for AI\" RAG \"retrieval augmented generation\" GPT",
21  "is_verified_artist": false,
22  "is_verified": false,
23  "is_family_safe": true,
24  "channel_id": "UCTgwcoeGGKmZ3zzCXN2qo_A",
25  "view_count": "333,052 views",
26  "description": "Welcome to Apify’s official YouTube channel!\n\nApify is a web scraping and automation platform, which lets you automate anything you can do in a web browser 🚀\n\nGather data with pre-built tools we call Actors and further use it to feed generative AI or for lead generation, machine learning, market research, and a myriad of other use cases 🤖\n\nAre you a developer? Build your own Actors and publish them on Apify Store to earn passive income 💸\n\nSubscribe now for tutorials on how to use our Actors, build your own ones, utilize our open-source libraries, or learn about various web scraping technologies 📖\n",
27  "country": "Czechia",
28  "video_count": "99 videos",
29  "subscriber_count": "3.37K subscribers",
30  "social_media_links": {
31    "Try Apify for FREE": "apify.com",
32    "Join dev community on Discord": "discord.com/invite/jyEM2PRvMU",
33    "LinkedIn": "linkedin.com/company/apifytech",
34    "Twitter": "twitter.com/apify",
35    "GitHub": "github.com/apify",
36    "Apify Docs": "docs.apify.com",
37    "Get a custom scraper": "apify.com/enterprise"
38  },
39  "available_countries": ["LT", "GT", "AL",...]
40}

🚀 Transform Your Data Insights

Boost your projects and strategies by tapping into the valuable insights obtained from YouTube channels with the YouTube Channel Scraper. Begin utilizing the extensive data from YouTube channels now to make informed choices that fuel your success.