YouTube Channel 360 Intelligence — Bundle Scraper 📺

The most comprehensive YouTube channel scraper on Apify. One run pulls videos, shorts, livestreams, playlists, community posts, store products, and channel metadata into a single tidy-long dataset. Tab-aware gating skips empty endpoints — you are never charged for tabs that don't exist on a channel.

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Why this actor

Most YouTube-channel scrapers on Apify return videos only. To build a real creator profile you have to chain three or four actors together — and your data team still has to glue the results into one table.

This actor delivers eight YouTube channel surfaces in one run, one bill, one dataset:

	This actor	Top incumbent (videos-only scrapers)
Channel metadata (About)	✅	partial / not surfaced
Long-form videos	✅	✅
Shorts	✅	❌
Livestreams (past + upcoming)	✅	❌
Playlists	✅	❌
Community posts	✅	❌
Store / merch products	✅	❌
Within-channel search	✅	❌
Unified tidy-long row schema	✅	flat blob — flatten yourself
Tab-aware gating (no charge for empty tabs)	✅	n/a

Drop the result into Pandas, DuckDB, or BigQuery and filter by rowType to slice the bundle.

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What you get back

A single dataset where every row carries a rowType discriminator:

rowType	What it is	Charged event
about	Channel metadata snapshot (subs, joined, country, links, tabs)	channel-about-row
video	Long-form video from the Videos tab (or Home or Search)	channel-video-row
short	Short-form Shorts-tab video	channel-short-row
livestream	Past, upcoming, or in-progress livestream	channel-livestream-row
playlist	Channel playlist with playlistId + video count	channel-playlist-row
communityPost	Community Posts tab entry	channel-community-post-row
storeProduct	Channel Store merch product	channel-store-product-row
video (from Search)	Within-channel search result	channel-search-row
error	Status row (`status: invalid_channel	not_in_tabs

Every row also carries _sourceChannelInput, _sourceChannelId, _sourceEndpoint, _fetchedAt, and _page so you can group, dedupe, and trace lineage in your downstream pipeline.

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Input

The actor accepts a single channel or a batch of channels. Each entry can be:

• Canonical channel ID — UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ (fastest, skips lookup).
• Handle — @mkbhd or bare mkbhd.
• Full URL — https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd, /channel/UC..., /c/CustomName.

{
  "channel": "@mkbhd",
  "includeEndpoints": ["about", "videos", "shorts", "community"],
  "maxPagesPerEndpoint": 1
}

{
  "channels": "@mkbhd\nUCX6OQ3DkcsbYNE6H8uQQuVA\n@veritasium",
  "includeEndpoints": ["about", "videos"],
  "maxPagesPerEndpoint": 2
}

Input fields

Field	Type	Default	Description
channel	string	—	One channel (ID, handle, or URL). One of channel or channels is required.
channels	string	—	Batch — comma/newline-separated list. Max 50 per run. Overrides channel.
includeEndpoints	array	All 8 (excluding search)	Pick which tabs to scrape. Defaults to: about, home, videos, shorts, liveStreams, playlists, community, store. Search runs only when searchQuery is provided.
searchQuery	string	—	Optional. When included with search in includeEndpoints, runs an in-channel search.
maxPagesPerEndpoint	integer	1	Max paginated pages per endpoint (videos, shorts, community, search). Range 1–10.
lang	string	—	Optional language code (en, es, ja, pt).

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Use cases

1. Influencer Marketing Agency — Match Clients to Creators. Pull 50 creator channels in one batch. Each comes back with full tabs metadata + videos + shorts + community posts + verified links → complete creator profile to match against client briefs.

2. M&A Diligence on a Creator Acquisition. Map every surface the target creator publishes on (videos, shorts, livestreams, playlists, community posts, store products) into a single tidy-long dataset to baseline pre-acquisition footprint and audit revenue lines.

3. Brand Safety Audit — Every Content Type Covered. Filter rowType: short and rowType: communityPost to surface short-form + community content that pure video-only scrapers miss.

4. Talent Agency Intel Pack — One-Pager Briefs. A 360-snapshot on prospective signings — subscribers, joined date, country, links, recent video performance, shorts activity, store products — in one run, one CSV.

5. AI / ML Training Datasets. Multi-modal creator data (videos + shorts + playlists + community) in a tidy-long schema purpose-built for downstream pipelines.

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How tab-aware gating works

Every run begins by fetching /channel/about — the "anchor" row. About returns a tabs array (['Home','Videos','Shorts','Live','Playlists','Posts','Store','Search']) that tells us exactly which tabs the channel has.

If you request liveStreams and the channel has no Live tab, the actor:

1. Skips the upstream call entirely (saves your quota).
2. Does not charge you for the endpoint.
3. Pushes one status row (status: not_in_tabs) so you have an auditable trail.

This means a small podcast channel with no Store + no Live + no Community gets billed only for what exists. No incumbent scraper does this — they call all endpoints blindly.

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Pricing

Pay-per-event. Bronze tier rates shown — higher tiers auto-ladder via the Apify tier system (FREE is intentionally higher to prevent abuse — see Apify pricing docs).

Event	BRONZE	What it covers
apify-actor-start (once)	$0.005	Actor lifecycle
channel-about-row	$0.025	Channel metadata snapshot (the anchor row)
channel-video-row ⭐	$0.003	Per long-form video from the Videos tab
channel-short-row	$0.003	Per Short from the Shorts tab
channel-livestream-row	$0.004	Per livestream from the Live tab
channel-playlist-row	$0.004	Per playlist from the Playlists tab
channel-community-post-row	$0.005	Per community post from the Posts tab
channel-store-product-row	$0.005	Per channel-store merch product
channel-search-row	$0.004	Per in-channel search result (only when searchQuery is set)

⭐ = primary / headline event (highest typical volume per run).

Estimated bundle cost (MrBeast, 1 page each endpoint, BRONZE tier): $0.005 (start) + $0.025 (about) + 30 × $0.003 (videos) + 30 × $0.003 (shorts) + 8 × $0.005 (community) + 23 × $0.004 (playlists) = ~$0.30 / channel.

Skip endpoints you don't need with includeEndpoints: ["about", "videos"] → drops to ~$0.12 / channel.

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Output schema (unified rows)

Every row carries:

• Tracing fields: _sourceChannelInput, _sourceChannelId, _sourceEndpoint, _fetchedAt, _page
• Discriminator: rowType (one of about | video | short | livestream | playlist | communityPost | storeProduct | error)
• Status: status (success / invalid_channel / not_in_tabs / endpoint_unavailable / error)

Plus per-rowType fields:

about — channelId, channelTitle, channelHandle, channelDescription, channelCountry, channelAvatarUrl, channelBannerUrl, subscriberCount, videosCount, viewCount, joinedDate, channelKeywords, channelLinks, channelTabs, availableCountries, isFamilySafe, hasEmail.

video / short / livestream — videoId, videoPageUrl, videoTitle, videoDescription (not on short), lengthText, publishedTimeText, publishedAt, viewCount, viewCountText, thumbnailUrl, channelTitle.

playlist — playlistId, playlistPageUrl, videoTitle (playlist title), playlistVideoCount, thumbnailUrl.

communityPost — postId, postContentText, publishedTimeText, postVoteCountText, postReplyCount.

storeProduct — productId, productTitle, productPriceText, productImageUrl.

Any endpoint-specific upstream field that doesn't fit the unified schema is captured in extra (object) so you never lose data.

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FAQ

Q: I want only videos, not the full bundle. Can I do that? Yes — set includeEndpoints: ["about", "videos"]. You'll get the channel snapshot + the video rows and pay only for those events.

Q: Why include about by default? The about row gives you the channelTabs array — used by the actor's gating to skip empty tabs. It's also the canonical anchor row for downstream JOINs.

Q: What if I pass a channel that doesn't exist? The actor pushes one row with status: invalid_channel and errorMessage explaining why. No charge for that row.

Q: What if a channel has no Live tab? The actor pushes one status: not_in_tabs row for that endpoint. No upstream call, no charge.

Q: How do I get views/likes/comments for an individual video? That's a different actor — try a dedicated video-detail scraper. This bundle is breadth-first, not depth-first per video.

Q: Is there a search-within-channel feature? Yes — add search to includeEndpoints and set searchQuery. Each match becomes a rowType: video row tagged _sourceEndpoint: search.

Q: Does it work for branded / corporate channels (Apple, Nike, BBC)? Yes — tested. Brand channels typically lack Posts and Store; the gating handles that cleanly.

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⚠️ Trademark Disclaimer

YouTube® is a trademark of Google LLC. This actor is an independent data-discovery tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or supported by Google LLC or YouTube. All trademarks, registered trademarks, and brand names are the property of their respective owners.

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Legal & data privacy

This actor scrapes publicly accessible YouTube channel data. Users are responsible for ensuring compliance with YouTube's Terms of Service and applicable data-protection laws (GDPR, CCPA, etc.) when using the data downstream. Don't scrape PII or use scraped data to harass / discriminate. See Apify's blog on legal scraping.

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Support

• Email: apify@sian-agency.online
• Issues: use the Apify Console Issues tab for this actor
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