YouTube Community Posts Scraper - Polls, Images & Text Posts

Scrape the Posts (Community) tab of any YouTube channel - text updates, single and multi-image posts, polls with vote totals, attached videos and quizzes - with like counts, comment counts, links and hashtags for every post. No login, no cookies, no YouTube API needed (the official API does not expose community posts at all).

Enter channel handles or URLs and get one clean row per post, newest first, ready for JSON, CSV, Excel or Google Sheets.

What you get

For every community post:

• postId, postUrl, publishedText ("11 days ago"), position
• text - the full post body, plus links (unwrapped from YouTube redirects) and hashtags
• attachmentType - none, image, images, video, poll or quiz
• imageUrls - full-resolution image links for image posts
• video - videoId, url, title, channel, views, duration and thumbnail for shared videos
• poll - every choice, choice images, poll type and totalVotes
• quiz - question and choices
• likeCount, commentCount, isSharedPost
• channelId, channelName, channelHandle, channelUrl

Use cases

• Brand and creator monitoring - track announcements, giveaways and polls from channels you follow
• Audience research - poll results reveal what a creator's community actually wants
• Competitor analysis - see how often rivals post, what formats they use and what gets engagement
• Sponsorship and campaign tracking - catch promo links and codes posted outside of videos
• Content ideation - mine high-engagement posts and poll questions for your own community
• Archiving - keep a searchable record of a channel's community history

How to use

1. Enter one or more Channels - @handle, a channel URL (including /posts or /community links) or a UC... channel ID.
2. Set Max posts per channel (default 50, 0 for every post).
3. Run the actor - posts stream into the Dataset tab, newest first.

Output format

{
  "postId": "UgkxZusu9I1Z-VuU5PGZNA2gclHi8V9CJVZk",
  "postUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxZusu9I1Z-VuU5PGZNA2gclHi8V9CJVZk",
  "channelId": "UCX6OQ3DkcsbYNE6H8uQQuVA",
  "channelName": "MrBeast",
  "channelHandle": "@MrBeast",
  "channelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/@MrBeast",
  "publishedText": "1 month ago",
  "text": "Would you rather stop aging for 100 years or receive 1 billion dollars right now?",
  "links": [],
  "hashtags": [],
  "attachmentType": "poll",
  "imageUrls": [],
  "video": null,
  "poll": {
    "type": "POLL_TYPE_TEXT",
    "totalVotes": 1700000,
    "totalVotesText": "1.7M votes",
    "choices": [
      { "text": "100 Years Of No Aging", "imageUrl": null },
      { "text": "1 Billion Dollars", "imageUrl": null }
    ]
  },
  "quiz": null,
  "likeCount": 101023,
  "commentCount": 10000,
  "isSharedPost": false,
  "position": 5
}

Pricing

You pay a small fixed amount per post returned. Channels without a Posts tab cost nothing.

Tips

• Like counts are exact; comment counts and poll totals above 1,000 are the rounded figures YouTube displays.
• Per-choice poll percentages are only shown to logged-in voters, so the output includes the choices and the overall vote total.
• Run on a schedule with a small Max posts per channel to catch new posts as they appear.
• If YouTube begins blocking requests from the default network, enable Proxy configuration with Apify Proxy.

FAQ

A channel returns no posts - why? Channels need to have posted at least once for YouTube to show a Posts tab. Very new or small channels may not have one.

Can I get the comments under a post? Not in this actor - it captures the comment count. Post comment scraping may be added later.

Does it include the channel's videos? Only videos that were shared as part of a community post. Use the YouTube Channel Videos Scraper for the full upload list.