What is YouTube Channel Scraper?

YouTube Channel Scraper pulls channel data from YouTube in bulk — subscribers, total video count, description, keywords, country, avatar and the channel's RSS feed. No login, no API key, no quota.

Paste channel handles (@NASA), channel IDs (UCLA_DiR1FfKNvjuUpBHmylQ) or full channel URLs and run it. All three formats work, mixed together.

• Bulk-friendly — pass hundreds of channels in one run
• No API key, no quota — reads the public channel page directly, so you're not limited by the YouTube Data API's daily quota
• Full channel profile — subscribers, video count, description, keywords, country
• RSS feed URL for every channel, ready to plug into a monitor
• Runs light and cheap — plain HTTP on standard proxies, no browser needed
• Export to Excel, CSV, JSON or HTML; schedule it or run it from the API

What data can this scraper extract?

📺 Channel title	🆔 Channel ID	🔗 Channel & vanity URLs
🏷️ Handle	👥 Subscribers	🎬 Video count
📝 Description	🔑 Keywords	🌍 Country
🖼️ Avatar URL	📡 RSS feed URL	👨‍👧 Family-safe flag

How do I use it?

⬇️ Input

{
  "channels": ["@NASA", "@MrBeast", "https://www.youtube.com/@TED"]
}

Handles, UC… channel IDs and full channel URLs can be mixed freely. If you pass two forms of the same channel (e.g. a handle and its ID), they're deduplicated by channel ID so you're never charged twice for one channel.

⬆️ Output

One row per channel:

{
  "channel_id": "UCLA_DiR1FfKNvjuUpBHmylQ",
  "title": "NASA",
  "handle": "NASA",
  "channel_url": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLA_DiR1FfKNvjuUpBHmylQ",
  "description": "NASA's mission is to pioneer the future in space exploration…",
  "keywords": "nasa space iss shuttle astronauts planets earth",
  "country": "US",
  "subscribers": 15000000,
  "subscribers_text": "15M subscribers",
  "video_count": 6100,
  "avatar_url": "https://…",
  "rss_url": "https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCLA_DiR1FfKNvjuUpBHmylQ",
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-30T…"
}

Subscriber and video counts are returned both as the display text ("15M subscribers") and parsed to a number (15000000).

Common uses

• Influencer marketing — vet channels by subscriber count and country before outreach; the description and keywords tell you what a channel is about
• Agency prospecting — build creator shortlists by niche
• Competitor tracking — monitor rival brand channels over time on a schedule; the RSS URL lets you watch for new uploads
• Media research — compare channel size, output and focus across a set

Frequently asked questions

Do I need a YouTube account or API key? No. This reads the public channel page directly — no account, no Data API key, and no daily quota.

Do I need residential proxies? No — it was measured at 14/15 successful fetches on standard Apify datacenter proxies, so the cheap default is the right one.

Does it return the channel's videos? No, and that's deliberate. YouTube does not include a channel's video list in the channel page in a scrapeable form — that loads from a separate signed endpoint, which is a different job and belongs in its own actor. This one does channel profiles properly. Use the rss_url for the latest uploads.

What if a handle doesn't exist? It's reported in the log and skipped — one bad handle never fails the run.

Is it legal? It reads publicly visible channel pages with no login. Channel data can still include personal information, so you're responsible for complying with YouTube's Terms of Service and applicable privacy law in how you store and use it.

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