YouTube Live Stream Real-Time Monitor
Pricing
from $2.50 / 1,000 live stream rows
Monitor any YouTube livestream's concurrent viewers in real time. List currently-live & recent streams for any channel. Bulk poll 100s of stream IDs. For esports analytics, live-commerce, news-event tracking and brand-safety teams.
🎯 PICK ONE OPERATION PER RUN. Each run produces one clean dataset matching the chosen mode.
streamState (live / ended), concurrent viewers, titles and thumbnails.💡 TIP: Start with Channel Live Streams to discover currently-live videoIds for a channel. Then feed those IDs into repeated Viewer Count Snapshot runs (every N minutes) to build a time series of concurrent viewers per stream.
📺 Required for Channel Live Streams.
Accepts any of:
UCSJ4gkVC6NrvII8umztf0Owhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSJ4gkVC6NrvII8umztf0Owhttps://www.youtube.com/@LofiGirlhttps://www.youtube.com/c/LofiGirl💡 TIP: If you paste a handle or custom URL, the actor will resolve it to the canonical channel ID for you (consumes 1 extra upstream call — no extra charge).
👁 Required for Viewer Count Snapshot.
One or more 11-character YouTube video IDs. Each ID is polled with one upstream call → one dataset row with real-time concurrentViewers, streamState, likeCount.
Accepts:
JD-kMIpDfnY\nEWrX250ZhkoJD-kMIpDfnY, EWrX250Zhkohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD-kMIpDfnY (the actor will extract the ID)💡 TIP: Combine this with the Apify Scheduler to poll the same set of IDs every N minutes — build a real-time viewer-count time series.
📄 Applies to Channel Live Streams. Ignored for Viewer Count Snapshot.
Most active channels return all current livestreams on page 1 (~16-30 rows). Channels with many recent ended streams (esports orgs, news networks) may paginate.
⚠️ Hard cap: 25 pages to prevent runaway runs.
🌍 Optional. Two-letter country code to localize results. Defaults to US.
Examples: US (United States), GB (United Kingdom), IN (India), BR (Brazil), DE (Germany), JP (Japan), KR (Korea), MX (Mexico).