YouTube Channel Videos Scraper (bulk, lightweight)

Get the full video list of any YouTube channel: title, video id, duration, view count, publish date and thumbnail, with the channel's name, handle and subscriber count on every row. Paste channel URLs, @handles or channel ids, up to 100 channels per run. You only pay for videos that are actually delivered.

Why this scraper

• Built on a lightweight route. Loading a channel page costs about 1.5 MB for the first 30 videos. This actor asks YouTube's own internal API instead and needs about 2.3 KB per video, which is where the low price comes from.
• Only delivered videos are charged. A channel that does not exist, has no public videos, or is temporarily blocked comes back as a clear error record at no cost.
• A hard cost ceiling you control. maxVideosPerChannel is the cap: one delivered video is one charged event, so you always know the maximum before you press start.
• Agent-ready output. One flat row per video with a stable schema and explicit error codes, so it drops straight into a pipeline or an LLM tool.
• Every input format works. @mkbhd, https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd, /channel/UC..., /c/Name, /user/Name or a bare channel id.

Who this is for

Content researchers mapping what a channel publishes, competitor and market analysts tracking output and view counts, and teams that need a channel's back catalogue as input for further processing, for example to fetch transcripts afterwards.

Who this is not for

If you want one channel's latest video once, the YouTube website is faster and free. This actor earns its place from the tenth channel onwards, or when you need the whole back catalogue in one table.

It returns public video and channel metadata only. It does not collect comments, commenter names, subscriber lists or any other personal data.

Input fields

Field	Type	Required or default	What it does
channels	list of text	required	Channel URLs, @handles or channel ids. All of these work: https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd, @mkbhd, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ, UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ.
maxVideosPerChannel	number	100	Stop after this many videos per channel, newest first. This is your cost ceiling: one delivered video is one charged event.
language	text	en	Interface language for the texts YouTube returns, e.g. en, nl, de. Affects wording such as the publish date.
country	text	US	ISO country code used for the request, e.g. US, NL, DE.

Input example

{
    "channels": [
        "@mkbhd",
        "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ",
        "UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ"
    ],
    "maxVideosPerChannel": 100,
    "language": "en",
    "country": "US"
}

Output example

Field	Type	What it holds	Example
channelId	text	The channel id (UC...), stable where the channel name can change.	UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ
channelName	text	The channel that published the video.	Marques Brownlee
channelHandle	text	The channel's @handle, the name in its short link.	@mkbhd
channelUrl	text	The channel page on YouTube.	https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ
channelSubscribers	number	The channel's subscribers, rounded the way YouTube publishes them.	21300000
channelVideoCount	number	How many public videos the channel has.	1800
videoId	text	The eleven-character YouTube id of the video, the key to join other data on.	rayrrXot17M
url	text	The watch page of the video.	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rayrrXot17M
title	text	The title as the uploader set it.	Nothing Headphone 1 Pro: They Copied the Wrong Thing!
duration	text	The length as YouTube prints it on the thumbnail, for example 12:04.	14:20
durationSeconds	number	The length of the video in seconds.	860
viewCount	number	Views as YouTube reports them at the moment of the run.	4110949
publishedText	text	How long ago YouTube says it appeared, for example "3 weeks ago"; YouTube gives no exact date here.	1 day ago
thumbnailUrl	text	The largest thumbnail YouTube offers for the video.	https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rayrrXot17M/sddefault_custom_2.jpg...

{
    "channelId": "UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ",
    "channelName": "Marques Brownlee",
    "channelHandle": "@mkbhd",
    "channelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ",
    "channelSubscribers": 21200000,
    "channelVideoCount": 1800,
    "videoId": "Od6M0AXpcxQ",
    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od6M0AXpcxQ",
    "title": "iPhone 18 Pro/Duo Impressions: Mogged",
    "duration": "17:14",
    "durationSeconds": 1034,
    "viewCount": 14290382,
    "publishedText": "1 day ago",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Od6M0AXpcxQ/maxresdefault.jpg",
    "status": "ok"
}

A channel that cannot be delivered produces an error record instead, and is not charged:

{
    "input": "@thischanneldoesnotexist12345",
    "status": "error",
    "errorCode": "CHANNEL_NOT_FOUND",
    "error": "YouTube does not know this channel"
}

Error codes: INVALID_CHANNEL, CHANNEL_NOT_FOUND, NO_VIDEOS, BLOCKED. INPUT_TRUNCATED appears once when your input is longer than this actor accepts.

Related actors from steadydata

• youtube-channel-details: the channel profile: subscribers, total views, country
• youtube-video-details: full metadata per video from this list
• youtube-shorts: the Shorts of the same channel, which this actor leaves out
• Used together with youtube-video-details and youtube-transcript-bulk in a recipe: YouTube metadata in bulk without the API quota.

Pricing

Pay per event: one video-listed event per delivered video. No charge for channels that fail, no charge for channels without public videos, no separate platform-usage surcharge.

Free Apify plan: this actor delivers up to 25 rows per run for accounts on the Apify free plan, and then stops with a message. That limit is set by us, not by Apify. It exists so the actor keeps paying for itself for the people who do pay. Any paid Apify plan runs it at full size, billed per delivered row, with failed rows never charged.

Reviews: if this actor saves you time, a short review on this page is the one thing that helps most. Ratings are what other buyers look at first, and we have no other way to ask.

FAQ

How far back does it go? As far as you ask. Set maxVideosPerChannel and the actor pages through the channel, newest first, until it reaches your limit or runs out of videos.

Why is the publish date a text like "1 day ago"? That is what YouTube returns on this route. It is kept exactly as given rather than converted into a date that would be a guess. Set language if you want that text in another language.

Does it include Shorts and live streams? Not in this version. It returns the channel's Videos tab, which is the regular uploads. Shorts and past live streams sit behind separate tabs and are a candidate for a later version.

Is personal data collected? No. Public video and channel metadata only. No comments, no commenter names, no subscriber lists.

What happens when YouTube changes something? Internal routes shift from time to time; that is the nature of this work. The difference here is the response: the actor is monitored daily and fixed fast, and while it is broken you are not charged, because only delivered videos cost anything.

Can I combine this with transcripts? Yes, and that is a common pattern: run this actor to get a channel's video ids, then feed those ids into the YouTube Transcript Scraper from the same publisher.