YouTube Channel Videos Scraper

Export a YouTube channel's full upload history to JSON, CSV or Excel. Every video's title, URL, view count, duration and publish date — no login, no YouTube Data API key, no quota.

What it does

Lists the uploads of one YouTube channel and writes one dataset row per video, newest first. It pages through the channel until it reaches your maxItems limit or the uploads run out.

Accepts any channel URL form: youtube.com/@handle, youtube.com/channel/UC…, youtube.com/c/Name.

Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
url	string	yes	—	Channel URL or @handle
maxItems	integer	no	100	Stop after this many videos

{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd", "maxItems": 1000 }

To pull an entire back catalogue, set maxItems well above the channel's video count — the run stops on its own when the uploads run out.

Output

One row per video.

{
  "id": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "title": "The best phone of 2026",
  "durationSec": 612,
  "views": 4821000,
  "publishedAt": "2026-03-04T00:00:00.000Z",
  "publishedAtConfidence": "parsed",
  "channel": { "id": "UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ", "title": "MKBHD", "handle": "@mkbhd", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd" },
  "thumbnailUrl": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dQw4w9WgXcQ/hqdefault.jpg"
}

Field	Type	Notes
id	string	YouTube video id
url	string	Canonical watch URL
title	string	Video title
durationSec	integer	Length in seconds
views	integer	View count at scrape time
publishedAt	string	ISO 8601
publishedAtConfidence	string	exact | parsed | unknown
channel	object	id, title, handle, url — same on every row
thumbnailUrl	string	Thumbnail image URL

About publishedAtConfidence

YouTube renders ages as relative text — "2 weeks ago" — rather than timestamps. When that is all a source gives us, the date is computed from it and marked parsed. exact means a real timestamp arrived. unknown means neither did, and publishedAt is absent.

Most scrapers present a computed date as if it were exact. This one tells you which it is, so you can judge whether it is precise enough for your analysis.

What it does not do

• Uploads only. Shorts, live streams, playlists and community posts are not listed separately.
• No channel statistics. Subscriber and total-view counts come from the YouTube Channel Stats Scraper.
• No sorting options. Videos come back newest first, as the channel page orders them.
• No transcripts or comments. Feed the url of each row into those actors.

Pricing

Charged per video delivered. A channel with 800 uploads, pulled completely, bills 800. Failed runs charge nothing.

Errors

Code	Meaning
BAD_REQUEST	Input missing, malformed, or not a URL this actor serves
NOT_FOUND	The target is private, removed, or does not exist
UNSUPPORTED_OPERATION	The URL resolved to a platform this actor does not serve
UPSTREAM_FAILED	Every upstream source failed — retry shortly
RATE_LIMITED	Too many requests; back off and retry
TIMEOUT	The source took longer than the actor's budget
UNAUTHORIZED	The actor's API credentials are invalid — contact the author
INSUFFICIENT_CREDITS	The account behind this actor is out of credits — contact the author
INTERNAL_ERROR	Unexpected failure

UNAUTHORIZED and INSUFFICIENT_CREDITS are on us, not you. If you see either, the actor is misconfigured on our side.

How it works

Three independent upstream sources serve this operation. If one is down or returns nothing usable, the next is tried inside the same run — no double charge, no retry on your side.

Listings are always fetched live, so a video uploaded minutes ago appears.

FAQ

Do I need a YouTube API key? No.

Can I get a channel's entire history? Yes — set maxItems above the upload count and the run stops when it runs out.

Does it include Shorts? Shorts are not listed as a separate feed here.

Can I pass a video URL instead of a channel URL? No — pass the channel. The video's own data comes from the YouTube Video Data Scraper.

How do I get subscriber counts? Use the YouTube Channel Stats Scraper.