Social Blade Scraper — YouTube, TikTok, Instagram & Twitch Stats

Pull Social Blade statistics for any creator without an account, an API key, or a browser. This Actor talks directly to Social Blade's live backend and returns clean, structured JSON for YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and Twitch — including profile summaries, daily historical data, and growth projections.

⚡ One batched request per creator fetches the profile, ~30 days of history and growth projections together — the same trick the official Social Blade mobile app uses.

What you can scrape

Result type	What you get	Accepts
Profile (recommended)	Resolves a handle, then returns profile + daily history + growth in a single batched call.	handle, ID or URL
Search	Matching accounts for a term (id, display name, username, subscribers/followers).	search term
User	Profile / summary stats only (avatar, country, ranks, totals, grade…).	platform ID only
History	Daily historical data points (configurable, up to 365 days).	platform ID only
Growth	Multi-window growth deltas (3–365 days).	platform ID only

⚠️ user, history and growth require a resolved platform ID (e.g. a YouTube channel ID UCX6OQ3DkcsbYNE6H8uQQuVA, not the handle mrbeast) — a handle or URL returns an error. Only profile and search accept handles/URLs. To get history or growth from a handle, use profile (which resolves the handle first, then fetches both); you can turn off either section with includeHistory / includeGrowth. To find an account's ID, run a search first — the id field of each result is what these modes expect.

Supported platforms: YouTube · TikTok · Instagram · Twitch. (Social Blade removed Twitter/X data, so it is not available.)

Why this Actor

• No login, no API key. Works against Social Blade's public web backend.
• Multi-platform in one Actor. Switch between YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and Twitch with a single input field — or mix them in one run by pasting profile URLs.
• Accepts anything you paste. Handles (mrbeast), platform IDs, platform profile URLs (https://youtube.com/@PewDiePie) and Social Blade URLs all work — the platform is auto-detected from URLs.
• Batched profile lookups. Profile mode pulls summary + history + growth in one request, so you spend fewer proxy hits and finish faster.
• Headline fields surfaced. SB grade, ranks, country, category, total views/uploads, socials and multi-window growth are lifted to the top level — the same insights other scrapers bury or charge a subscription for.
• Beats Cloudflare without a browser. Social Blade JA3-fingerprints the TLS handshake, so plain Python HTTP clients get a 403 "Just a moment" page. The Actor impersonates a real Chrome TLS/HTTP2 fingerprint (via curl_cffi) and retries with a fresh proxy IP on any remaining challenge — no slow headless browser needed.

How it compares

	This Actor	radeance/socialblade-api	parseforge/socialblade-scraper
Pricing	Pay-per-usage (no subscription)	$19.99/mo + usage	$8.19 / 1,000 results
Look up creators by handle/URL	✅	✅	❌ (top-lists only)
Daily history time-series	✅	✅	❌
Multi-window growth (3–365d)	✅	✅	30-day only
SB grade, ranks, socials	✅	✅	partial
Mixed-platform URLs in one run	✅	✅	❌

We focus on fast, no-subscription per-creator lookups with full history — the cheapest path when you already know which creators you care about.

Pricing

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing — no monthly subscription. You only pay for the data you actually receive (failed/empty queries are never charged):

Event	Price	Charged when
User search + profile lookup	$0.01	A search, user, or profile query returns its profile/summary data.
Historical data	$0.01	A daily history time-series is returned (in history or profile mode).
Growth data	$0.01	A multi-window growth section is returned (in growth or profile mode).

What a query costs:

Run	Cost per query
search or user	$0.01
profile with history + growth (default)	$0.03
profile with includeHistory: false and includeGrowth: false	$0.01

Apify Proxy usage and compute are billed separately by Apify at standard platform rates.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
platform	string	youtube	youtube, tiktok, instagram or twitch.
queries	array of strings	—	Handles / IDs / profile URLs (or search terms for search). user/history/growth require a platform ID; profile/search also accept handles & URLs. Required.
resultType	string	profile	profile, search, user, history or growth (see What you can scrape for which accept handles).
includeHistory	boolean	true	In profile mode, include the daily history section. Turn off for a smaller, faster request.
includeGrowth	boolean	true	In profile mode, include the multi-window growth section. Turn off for a smaller, faster request.
historyLimit	integer	30	Daily data points for history / profile (1–365).
maxConcurrency	integer	5	Queries processed in parallel.
maxRetries	integer	6	Retries (with IP rotation) per request when Cloudflare challenges.
proxyConfiguration	object	Residential Apify Proxy	Proxy settings. Residential is the default; datacenter IPs get hard-blocked by Cloudflare under load.

Example input

{
  "platform": "youtube",
  "queries": ["mrbeast", "pewdiepie"],
  "resultType": "profile",
  "historyLimit": 30,
  "maxConcurrency": 5,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true }
}

Output

One record is pushed to the dataset per query. Example (profile, abbreviated):

{
  "platform": "youtube",
  "resultType": "profile",
  "query": "mrbeast",
  "id": "UCX6OQ3DkcsbYNE6H8uQQuVA",
  "displayName": "MrBeast",
  "username": null,
  "subscribers": 502000000,
  "followers": null,
  "views": "130065447496",
  "uploads": 988,
  "sbGrade": "A++",
  "country": "US",
  "category": "entertainment",
  "madeForKids": false,
  "createdAt": "2012-02-20T00:00:00.000Z",
  "ranks": { "sb": 13, "subscribers": 1, "views": 12, "country": 1, "category": 1 },
  "socials": [ { "url": "https://instagram.com/mrbeast", "title": "Follow" } ],
  "avatar": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/...",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-19T12:00:00+00:00",
  "user": { "id": "UCX6OQ3DkcsbYNE6H8uQQuVA", "description": "...", "stats": { "...": "..." } },
  "history": [ { "date": "2026-06-18T00:00:00.000Z", "subscribers": 501000000, "views": 129900000000, "videos": 987 } ],
  "growth": {
    "subscribers": { "3d": 1000000, "7d": 3000000, "30d": 15000000, "90d": 30000000, "365d": 96000000 },
    "views":       { "3d": 509488425, "30d": 6576018368, "365d": 43252485950 },
    "videos":      { "3d": 1, "30d": 7, "365d": 111 }
  }
}

growth groups subscriber, view and upload deltas by metric, each keyed by timeframe over 3, 7, 14, 30, 60, 90, 180 and 365-day windows. history is the daily time-series. Set includeHistory / includeGrowth to false to omit either section.

A search record contains a results array; failed queries include an error field instead of data (the run continues — one bad query never aborts the batch).

Tips & limits

• Use residential proxy (the default). Social Blade is behind Cloudflare. Residential IPs reliably succeed across all platforms; datacenter IPs work for low volume but get hard-blocked under concurrency. Lower maxConcurrency if you still see challenges.
• profile is the cheapest way to get everything — prefer it over running user + history + growth separately.
• Field availability varies by platform (e.g. YouTube uses subscribers, TikTok/Instagram use followers).
• This Actor reads publicly available data from Social Blade. Respect Social Blade's terms and applicable laws; use the data responsibly.

How it works

The Actor calls Social Blade's tRPC backend (https://socialblade.com/api/trpc) with GET requests — the same endpoints the website itself uses. Cloudflare fingerprints the TLS handshake, so the Actor uses curl_cffi to impersonate a real Chrome browser's TLS/HTTP2 fingerprint; this gets a normal JSON response without the cost of a headless browser. When a challenge page is still returned instead of JSON, the request is retried on a fresh proxy IP until it succeeds or maxRetries is exhausted.