YouTube Channel Scraper: every video a channel has published, with stats

Give it a list of YouTube channels and get back one table: every video each channel has published, newest first, with title, views, publish date, duration, thumbnail and link. Shorts and live streams too if you want them. Each channel also gets its own row with subscribers, total channel views, video count, join date, country, description and the links on its About page.

Put it on a schedule with Only new videos since the last run switched on and each run returns just the uploads that appeared since the previous one. Scheduled runs cost almost nothing when nothing changed: a quiet channel is checked against its latest-uploads feed and nothing is charged beyond the run start.

No API key, no login, no Google Cloud quota. Platform usage is included in the price.

Who it is for

• Agencies and brand teams tracking competitors or creators. See what every channel on your watchlist publishes, how fast it gets views, and which formats (long videos, Shorts, live) they lean on.
• Influencer marketers. Vet a creator's whole back catalogue before a deal: posting cadence, view counts per video, Shorts vs long-form, links to their other platforms.
• Analysts and researchers. Build a dataset of a channel's entire output for content analysis, then feed the video IDs into the transcript or comments actors.
• Content teams. Find a competitor's most-viewed videos and the topics that keep working for them.

What you get

Two kinds of rows in the same dataset, told apart by type. The Videos view of the dataset shows the videos, the Channels view shows the channel rows.

Video rows (type: "video")

Field	What it is
videoId, url, title	The video
channelId, channelTitle, channelHandle	Who published it
viewCount	Views. Exact for the channel's 15 newest uploads; for older videos it is YouTube's rounded figure (2.9M → 2,900,000)
viewCountText, viewCountIsExact	The figure as YouTube shows it, and whether viewCount is exact
publishedAt	Exact publish time, for the 15 newest uploads
publishedTimeText	As YouTube shows it ("3 weeks ago", "Streamed 6 years ago")
publishedAtApprox	A date estimated from that text (exact when publishedAt is known)
durationSeconds, durationText	Length (Shorts have none on the channel page)
isShort, isLive, wasLive, isUpcoming	Short, live right now, a past live stream, scheduled
isMembersOnly	A members-only upload (YouTube shows no view count for these, so viewCount is empty)
thumbnailUrl	Largest thumbnail
tab, position	Which channel tab it came from (videos, shorts, streams) and its position there, 1 = newest
capturedAt	When the row was collected

Channel rows (type: "channel")

Field	What it is
channelId, handle, title, channelUrl	The channel
description, keywords, country	From the About page
subscriberCountText, subscriberCountApprox	Subscribers as YouTube shows them ("8.7M subscribers") and as a number. YouTube rounds this figure publicly
totalViewCount	Total channel views, exact
videoCount, videoCountText	Videos on the channel
joinedDate	Date the channel was created (YYYY-MM-DD)
externalLinks	[{ title, url }] — website, Instagram, X, Patreon… as listed on the About page
avatarUrl, bannerUrl, isVerified	Profile picture, banner, verification badge
capturedAt	When the row was collected

Input

Field	Default	What it does
Channels	—	Channel URLs, @handles, UC… channel IDs, old /c/ and /user/ links. A video link works too (you get its uploader).
Max videos per channel	100	Newest first, up to 5,000. Counted separately for videos, Shorts and live streams. The run status says when a channel has more.
Include Shorts	off	Also collect the Shorts tab.
Include live streams	off	Also collect the Live tab (past, live-now and scheduled streams).
Only new videos since the last run	off	Return only uploads that are new since the previous run of the same channel list and settings.

Example — two channels, their latest 200 videos and their Shorts:

{
    "channels": ["https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd", "@3blue1brown"],
    "maxVideosPerChannel": 200,
    "includeShorts": true
}

Example — a daily watchlist that only returns fresh uploads (schedule it in Apify):

{
    "channels": ["@mkbhd", "@LinusTechTips", "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw"],
    "maxVideosPerChannel": 50,
    "onlyNewSinceLastRun": true
}

Output example

A real video row (3Blue1Brown, captured 2026-10-15):

{
    "type": "video",
    "channelId": "UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw",
    "channelTitle": "3Blue1Brown",
    "channelHandle": "@3blue1brown",
    "videoId": "Nbwv5wHQoj0",
    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbwv5wHQoj0",
    "title": "The last IMO problem AI could not solve",
    "viewCount": 2974539,
    "viewCountText": "2.9M views",
    "viewCountIsExact": true,
    "publishedAt": "2026-09-18T17:12:53.000Z",
    "publishedTimeText": "3 weeks ago",
    "publishedAtApprox": "2026-09-18T17:12:53.000Z",
    "durationSeconds": 3116,
    "durationText": "51:56",
    "isShort": false,
    "isLive": false,
    "wasLive": false,
    "isUpcoming": false,
    "isMembersOnly": false,
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Nbwv5wHQoj0/hq720.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEcCNAFEJQDSFXyq4qpAw4IARUAAIhCGAFwAcABBg==&rs=AOn4CLARIa200D0WGqdKfn4aF2sBHLllHA",
    "tab": "videos",
    "position": 1,
    "capturedAt": "2026-10-15T21:46:19.562Z"
}

And its channel row (description and links shortened here):

{
    "type": "channel",
    "channelId": "UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw",
    "handle": "@3blue1brown",
    "title": "3Blue1Brown",
    "description": "My name is Grant Sanderson. Videos here cover a variety of topics in math, or adjacent fields like physics and CS, all w…",
    "country": "United States",
    "subscriberCountText": "8.7M subscribers",
    "subscriberCountApprox": 8700000,
    "totalViewCount": 783431784,
    "videoCount": 245,
    "videoCountText": "245 videos",
    "joinedDate": "2015-03-03",
    "externalLinks": [
        { "title": "All things 3b1b", "url": "https://www.3blue1brown.com" },
        { "title": "Patreon", "url": "https://www.patreon.com/3blue1brown" }
    ],
    "avatarUrl": "https://yt3.googleusercontent.com/ytc/AIdro_nFzZFPLxPZRHcE3SSwzdrbuWqfoWYwLAu0_2iO6blQYAU=s900-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj",
    "bannerUrl": "https://yt3.googleusercontent.com/JfUD9Tu79zgoYGo5-WdP5YYj0XvAjPgV3c2Snj-cgy8jslro0Ln5by024zWL7XDin7Vs-qnxVg=w2560-fcrop64=1,00005a57ffffa5a8-k-c0xffffffff-no-nd-rj",
    "isVerified": true,
    "keywords": "Mathematics",
    "channelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/@3blue1brown",
    "capturedAt": "2026-10-15T21:46:19.562Z"
}

Pricing

Pay per result, platform usage included — the price below is all you pay.

Event	Price	Per 1,000	Gold plan
Video row	$0.0005	$0.50 per 1,000 videos	$0.35 per 1,000
Channel row	$0.002	$2 per 1,000 channels	$1.40 per 1,000
Run start	$0.001	once per run	$0.001

Bronze and Silver get $0.45 and $0.40 per 1,000 videos ($1.80 and $1.60 per 1,000 channels).

So a channel's last 1,000 videos cost about $0.50 plus $0.002 for its channel row. A daily watchlist of 20 channels that publishes 10 new videos a day costs about $0.006 a run, plus $0.002 for each channel that posted (its fresh channel row). A run where no channel posted anything costs just the run start. You are never charged for a channel that does not exist or a tab a channel does not have.

FAQ

How far back does it go? As far as the channel's own Videos tab goes — the full upload history, up to 5,000 per tab per run. Set Max videos per channel to what you need; the run status tells you when a channel has more.

Are view counts exact? For each channel's 15 newest uploads, yes (viewCountIsExact: true). Older videos carry the rounded figure YouTube shows on the channel page ("2.9M views"), turned into a number. The channel's total views are always exact; subscriber counts are rounded by YouTube itself for everyone.

How does "Only new videos since the last run" work? The actor remembers which videos it has already returned for that exact channel list and settings. The first run returns everything up to your cap and starts the memory; every later run returns only videos published since. Changing the channel list or the Shorts / live-stream switches starts a fresh memory. Channel rows come with the first run and again whenever that channel has new videos, so you also get a fresh subscriber and view snapshot.

What happens with a wrong handle or a deleted channel? That entry is skipped and the run status names it ("Not found on YouTube"). Nothing is charged for it, and the other channels are scraped normally.

Do I need a YouTube API key? No. No key, no Google Cloud project, no quota, no login.

Can I get the transcripts or comments of these videos? Yes — pipe the url column into the transcript or comments actors below.

Related YouTube actors

• YouTube Search Scraper — videos, Shorts and channels for any search.
• YouTube Comments Scraper — every comment and reply on a video.
• YouTube Shorts Scraper — Shorts by keyword or channel.
• YouTube Channel Email Scraper — creator contact details for outreach.
• YouTube Transcript Scraper — transcripts for any list of videos.