YouTube Channel Videos Scraper

YouTube Channel Videos Scraper turns any YouTube channel into a clean, structured list of its uploads. Give it a channel URL, an @handle, or a UC... channel id and it returns one tidy row per video — id, title, watch URL, view count, publish time, duration and thumbnail — ready to drop into a spreadsheet, database or downstream pipeline.

No YouTube Data API key. No headless browser. No login. It talks directly to YouTube's own internal InnerTube API (the same endpoints the website and apps use), so it's fast and lightweight.

Built for creators, analysts, agencies and developers who need a dependable feed of a channel's videos without maintaining scraping infrastructure.

What you get

One dataset row per video:

Field	Description
channelId	The channel's UC... id
channelTitle	The channel's display name
videoId	11-character video id
title	Video title
url	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=<videoId>
views	View count text, e.g. "191K views"
published	Relative publish time, e.g. "2 weeks ago"
duration	Length, e.g. "12:34"
thumbnail	Highest-resolution thumbnail URL

If the channel can't be read or has no public uploads, the actor still writes a single row with an error field instead of failing with empty output.

Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
channel	string	✅	https://www.youtube.com/@NASA	Channel URL (/@handle, /channel/UC..., /c/..., /user/...), a bare @handle, or a UC... id
maxResults	integer	—	50	Maximum number of videos to return (fetched newest-first)
language	string	—	en	Interface language (hl) for YouTube's localized text
proxyCountryCode	string	—	US	ISO country code for the Apify residential proxy; leave blank to let Apify choose

The original field names are all accepted, along with a few aliases (channelUrl/url for channel, maxVideos/limit for maxResults, proxyCountry for proxyCountryCode, hl for language).

Example input

{
    "channel": "https://www.youtube.com/@NASA",
    "maxResults": 50,
    "proxyCountryCode": "US"
}

Example output row

{
    "channelId": "UCLA_DiR1FfKNvjuUpBHmylQ",
    "channelTitle": "NASA",
    "videoId": "aRSBZN2UF0Q",
    "title": "Moon Base: June 2026 Update",
    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRSBZN2UF0Q",
    "views": "191K views",
    "published": "2 weeks ago",
    "duration": "1:05",
    "thumbnail": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/aRSBZN2UF0Q/hqdefault.jpg"
}

How it works

1. Resolve the channel. If the input already contains a UC... id (bare or inside a /channel/ URL) it is used directly. Otherwise the actor POSTs to youtubei/v1/navigation/resolve_url to turn an @handle / /c/ / /user/ reference into a UC... browse id.
2. Browse the Videos tab. It POSTs to youtubei/v1/browse with the channel's browse id and the params blob that selects the "Videos" tab. The channel-browse endpoint is served through the InnerTube WEB client (the ANDROID/IOS app clients return HTTP 400 there).
3. Page through results. It follows the continuationCommand.token from each response until maxResults is reached or there are no more pages, de-duplicating by videoId and guarding against continuation loops.

Requests are routed through Apify residential proxy when available, with an automatic fallback to a direct connection.

Pricing

This actor uses Apify's pay-per-event model. You're charged once per video delivered (video-scraped); error rows are never billed, and the run stops automatically once your budget is reached.

Notes & limitations

• views, published, and duration are returned as YouTube's own display text (localized), not parsed numbers.
• Only regular uploads on the channel's Videos tab are returned (not Shorts, Live, Playlists or Podcasts).
• YouTube can change its internal API at any time; this actor tolerates several response shapes but is not covered by an official API contract.

Tech

Written in TypeScript on the Apify SDK. HTTP-only, so builds are fast and runs are cheap.

License

MIT © Assia Fadli