Youtube Channel Scraper Pro
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YouTube Channel Scraper Pro 🚀
A high-performance, reliable Apify Actor for scraping YouTube channel videos — including Long-Form and Shorts — with advanced filtering and infinite scroll support.
🔗 Apify Actor URL: https://apify.com/skcho/youtube-channel-scraper-pro
✨ Key Features
- 🔄 Infinite Scroll (Pagination): Automatically scrolls through the entire channel page using a real browser — no 30-video limit.
- 🗂️ Long-Form & Shorts Separation: Precisely scrape and categorize videos by type.
- 📦 Rich Data Extraction: Titles, View Counts, Upload Dates, Durations, HQ Thumbnails, and Animated WebP Previews — all extracted out of the box.
- 👍 Optional Like Count Extraction: A lightweight, high-concurrency HTTP-based fetcher grabs like counts at ~430 videos/min without launching extra browsers.
- 🎯 Precision Filtering: Filter by minimum views, likes, upload date range, and more.
- 🧠 Hybrid Architecture:
PlaywrightCrawlerhandles real-browser scrolling;HttpCrawlerhandles likes — minimizing memory usage and maximizing speed.
⚡ Performance
| Scenario | Speed |
|---|---|
| Channel scroll + data extract (100 videos) | ~15 seconds |
Like count fetch (per 100 videos, fetchLikes: true) | ~15 seconds |
| Total for 100 videos with likes | ~30 seconds |
Likes are fetched at ~430 requests/min in parallel via lightweight HTTP requests — no extra browser needed.
🛠️ Input Parameters
| Parameter | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
channelUrls | Array<String> | (Required) | YouTube channel URLs to scrape (e.g., https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd). Multiple channels supported. |
videoType | Enum | "ALL" | Which video type to scrape: "ALL", "LONG_FORM", or "SHORTS". |
minUploadDate | String | "" | Only include videos uploaded on or after this date. Format: YYYY-MM-DD. |
maxUploadDate | String | "" | Only include videos uploaded on or before this date. Format: YYYY-MM-DD. |
minViews | Integer | 0 | Only include videos with at least this many views. (e.g., 1000000 for 1M+). |
maxItemsPerChannel | Integer | 100 | Maximum videos to scrape per channel. Uses infinite scroll to exceed YouTube's default 30-video page limit. |
fetchLikes | Boolean | false | If enabled, fetches exact Like counts for every video via fast parallel HTTP requests. Adds ~15s per 100 videos. |
minLikes | Integer | 0 | (Requires fetchLikes: true) Only include videos with at least this many likes. |
📄 Output Data Structure
Each video is pushed as a JSON object to the Apify Dataset:
Field Reference
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
channelName | String | Official channel display name |
channelUrl | String | Input channel URL |
videoId | String | YouTube video ID |
videoUrl | String | Full youtube.com/watch?v=... URL |
title | String | Video title |
type | String | "LONG_FORM" or "SHORTS" |
uploadDateText | String | Relative upload date (e.g., "8 days ago") |
viewCount | Integer | Parsed integer view count |
durationText | String | Video duration string (e.g., "12:59") |
thumbnailUrl | String | Highest-quality static thumbnail URL |
animatedThumbnailUrl | String | 3-second animated WebP preview URL |
likeCount | Integer | Like count — present only when fetchLikes: true |
⚙️ How It Works (Architecture)
This actor uses a two-phase hybrid architecture to maximize both stability and speed:
Phase 1 — Scroll & Extract (PlaywrightCrawler)
A real Chromium browser navigates to the channel's /videos and /shorts tabs. It automatically scrolls down the page, triggering YouTube's infinite scroll to load more videos, until maxItemsPerChannel is reached or the page end is detected. Video metadata is then extracted directly from the rendered DOM.
Browser optimizations:
- Blocks unnecessary resources (images, fonts, media) to reduce memory usage
- Disables GPU, extensions, and background services
- Anti-bot fingerprint masking (
navigator.webdriversuppressed)
Phase 2 — Like Count Fetch (HttpCrawler, Optional)
If fetchLikes is enabled, up to 20 concurrent lightweight HTTP requests are made to individual youtube.com/watch?v=... pages. Like counts are extracted by parsing the embedded ytInitialData JSON object — no browser required. This runs at ~430 requests/min.
🤝 Support & Issues
Found a bug or have a feature request? Please reach out via the Apify Issues tab!
