YouTube Channel Scraper – subscribers, videos, Shorts, live streams · $0.50 per 1,000 results

Scrape YouTube channels without an API key, quota or login: subscribers, total views, video count, country, joined date, description, links, avatar and banner, plus the channel's latest videos, Shorts, live streams and playlists (newest first) with views, duration and date.

Paste @handles or channel URLs — one run can cover hundreds of channels.

What you get

Channel row (one per channel): title, handle, url, id, subscriberCount, subscriberCountText, videoCount, totalViews, country, joinedDate, description, links, keywords, verified, isFamilySafe, avatarUrl, bannerUrl, rssUrl.

Video / Short / live rows: title, url, id, viewCount, duration, publishedTimeText, thumbnailUrl, channelTab — and with Full video details: likeCount, commentCount, exact publishedAt, full description, hashtags, keywords, category.

Real run — 3 November 2026

Channel @mkbhd, Videos + Shorts tabs, 100 each → 1 channel row + 100 videos + 100 Shorts in 1 min 49 s ($0.10). The channel row:

{
  "type": "channel",
  "title": "Marques Brownlee",
  "handle": "@mkbhd",
  "subscriberCount": 21400000,
  "videoCount": 1864,
  "totalViews": 5860083118,
  "country": "United States",
  "joinedDate": "2008-03-21",
  "links": [{ "title": "Twitter", "url": "http://twitter.com/MKBHD" }, { "title": "Instagram", "url": "http://instagram.com/MKBHD" }],
  "verified": true
}

Pricing

$0.50 per 1,000 results (a result = one channel row, video, Short, live stream or playlist), cheaper on paid Apify plans. Full video details cost nothing extra. Channels that do not exist are free.

Compared on 3 November 2026: streamers/youtube-channel-scraper $1.30 per 1,000, grow_media/youtube-channel-video-scraper $1.00, apidojo/youtube-channel-information-scraper $0.50 per channel plus $5 per 1,000 channel URL queries.

Input examples

Channel statistics only (no videos):

{ "channelUrls": ["@mkbhd", "@mrbeast", "@linustechtips"], "maxVideosPerChannel": 0 }

Latest 100 videos and Shorts of several channels:

{ "channelUrls": ["https://www.youtube.com/@veritasium", "@kurzgesagt"], "channelTabs": ["videos", "shorts"], "maxVideosPerChannel": 100 }

Latest videos with likes, comments and exact dates:

{ "channelUrls": ["@mkbhd"], "maxVideosPerChannel": 30, "includeVideoDetails": true }

Accepted channel formats: @handle, youtube.com/@handle, /channel/UC…, /c/name, /user/name.

Use cases

• Influencer marketing: subscribers, country, links and recent performance of creators before a campaign.
• Competitor tracking: schedule daily runs on competitor channels to see every new upload and its views.
• Creator databases: enrich a list of handles with subscribers, video count and joined date.
• Content research: what a channel publishes, how often, and which videos perform.

Who this is not for

• You need search results → YouTube Search Scraper.
• You need transcripts or comments → YouTube Transcript / YouTube Comments Scraper.
• You need channel business emails (hidden by YouTube behind a login).
• You need everything in one Actor (search + channels + playlists + videos) → YouTube Scraper.

For AI agents (MCP)

Call it from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor through the Apify MCP server (https://mcp.apify.com) with rt-solutions/youtube-channel-scraper. Example: "Get the subscribers, country and the 10 latest videos of @mkbhd and @veritasium." Minimal input: {"channelUrls": ["@handle"]}; maxVideosPerChannel: 0 for statistics only.

FAQ

How do I get a YouTube channel's subscriber count without the API? Paste the handle and run with maxVideosPerChannel: 0.

How much does it cost to scrape 1,000 channels? $0.50 for the channel rows alone; each video adds $0.0005.

Can I get only Shorts or live streams? Yes — choose the tabs (shorts, streams).

Why is likeCount missing? Turn on Full video details (some creators also hide likes).

Can I schedule it? Yes — save a Task and add a daily schedule.

Limits

• Comment counts are rounded the way YouTube shows them (e.g. 11K).
• When YouTube limits its video player for a while, details still include views, likes, comments, date and description, but category and keywords may be empty.
• Business emails of channels are hidden by YouTube behind a login and are not collected.

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• YouTube Scraper (all-in-one)
• YouTube Shorts Scraper
• YouTube Search Scraper
• YouTube Comments Scraper