# YouTube Channel Videos Feed (New Uploads Monitor) (`rakish_bobby_gwr/youtube-channel-feed`) Actor

Get the latest videos of YouTube channels and playlists with title, description, publish date, views, likes and thumbnail from YouTube official RSS feeds. Built for new-upload alerts: only-new mode, date and keyword filters. Fast and cheap, no API key.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/rakish_bobby_gwr/youtube-channel-feed.md
- **Developed by:** [mustafa kılıç](https://apify.com/rakish_bobby_gwr) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 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?

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

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# README

## YouTube Channel Videos Feed (New Uploads Monitor)

Get the latest videos of any YouTube channel or playlist: title, description, publish time, **views**, **likes** and thumbnail. Built for monitoring: schedule it with **Only new videos** and every new upload arrives once, ready for Slack, email, Google Sheets, Make, Zapier, n8n or your AI agent.

It reads YouTube's own public RSS feeds, so there is no API key, no quota, no browser and no proxy: in our tests 4 channels and a playlist (55 videos) took under 2 seconds.

### What you can do with it

- **New video alerts** for competitor, news or creator channels (hourly or daily schedule + *Only new videos*).
- **Content pipelines**: trigger transcription, summarization or social posting when a channel uploads.
- **Track early performance**: views and likes of the newest uploads at each run.
- **Playlist monitoring**: new items in any public playlist.

### Input

```json
{
    "channels": ["https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd", "@LinusTechTips", "UC-lHJZR3Gqxm24_Vd_AJ5Yw", "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBCF2DAC6FFB574DE"],
    "onlyNewVideos": true,
    "publishedWithinDays": 7,
    "titleKeywords": ["review"]
}
```

Channels can be given as links (`/@handle`, `/channel/UC...`, `/c/...`, `/user/...`), @handles or channel IDs; playlists as links or IDs.

### Output

One row per video, newest first:

```json
{
    "input": "https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd",
    "channelId": "UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ",
    "channelTitle": "Marques Brownlee",
    "channelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ",
    "playlistId": null,
    "videoId": "2reQut8WNGc",
    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2reQut8WNGc",
    "title": "Macbook PROLED XDR Impressions: They Said They Wouldn't!",
    "description": "The first touchscreen Mac is here, and I have thoughts.\n\nMKBHD Merch:...",
    "publishedAt": "2026-10-29T02:50:34+00:00",
    "updatedAt": "2026-11-01T09:28:01+00:00",
    "thumbnail": "https://i3.ytimg.com/vi/2reQut8WNGc/hqdefault.jpg",
    "views": 10314554,
    "likes": 131859,
    "videoChannelId": "UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ",
    "videoChannelTitle": "Marques Brownlee",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-11-01T09:52:10+00:00"
}
```

### Pricing

$0.50 per 1,000 videos. Channels that cannot be found are reported with an `error` field and are not charged. With *Only new videos* you pay only for new uploads.

### Limits

- YouTube's feeds contain the **15 most recent videos** of a channel (including Shorts and finished live streams). For the full upload history use a full channel scraper; for monitoring, 15 is plenty when the Actor runs on a schedule.
- Views and likes are the values at scrape time.

### Disclaimer

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by YouTube or Google. It only collects publicly available data; make sure your use complies with the applicable terms and laws.

### Feedback

Missing something? Open an issue in the **Issues** tab.

# Actor input Schema

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

One per line: channel links (https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd, /channel/UC..., /c/..., /user/...), @handles, channel IDs (UC...), or playlist links and IDs.

## `onlyNewVideos` (type: `boolean`):

Return only videos not returned by a previous run (remembered per channel in a named key-value store). The first run returns the current feed.

## `publishedWithinDays` (type: `integer`):

Only videos published in the last N days. 0 means no limit.

## `titleKeywords` (type: `array`):

Only videos whose title contains any of these words (case-insensitive).

## `stateStoreName` (type: `string`):

Key-value store that remembers returned videos. Use different names for independent monitors.

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

How many channels are processed in parallel.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "channels": [
    "https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd"
  ],
  "onlyNewVideos": false,
  "publishedWithinDays": 0,
  "stateStoreName": "youtube-channel-feed-state",
  "maxConcurrency": 10
}
```

# 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/@mkbhd"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("rakish_bobby_gwr/youtube-channel-feed").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/@mkbhd"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("rakish_bobby_gwr/youtube-channel-feed").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/@mkbhd"
  ]
}' |
apify call rakish_bobby_gwr/youtube-channel-feed --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

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/00WsrTELKGYsrr2o0/builds/VX2b3vOjMcj39PeWQ/openapi.json