YouTube Channel Scraper — Subscribers, Total Views, Links & Country

Get the About data of any YouTube channel — or discover channels by keyword — in one clean row per channel:

channel ID, name, @handle, verified badge, subscribers, exact total views, exact video count, average views per video, joined date, country, description, keywords, external links (website, Instagram, X, TikTok, Facebook…), "has business email" flag, avatar, banner and RSS feed.

How to run it in 3 steps

1. Add your input. In Channels paste @handles or channel links (or use Search queries to discover channels) — e.g. @mkbhd. The form is already filled with a working example, so you can skip this step for a first try.
2. Press Start. The prefilled run returns 2 channels in about 2 s and costs about $0.006. Set Max results (cost cap) to cap the cost of bigger runs; you only pay for channels actually delivered.
3. Get the data. Open the Output tab and export JSON, CSV or Excel — or run it from the API, Make, Zapier, n8n or an AI agent (see below).

Features

• Influencer discovery: search a topic ("home espresso") and get every matching channel with its stats.
• Exact numbers for total views and videos (e.g. 142,688,379,304 views).
• HTTP only, no browser: YouTube's own internal API, ~60 KB per channel, no API key or quota — 24 channels in about a second.
• Pay per channel: $3 per 1,000 channels. Filtered and missing channels are free.

Use cases

• Influencer marketing: shortlist creators by subscribers, views per video and country; get their social links.
• Competitor tracking: monitor channel growth (schedule daily).
• Market research: map every channel in a niche.

Input

{
  "channels": ["@mkbhd", "https://www.youtube.com/@NASA", "UCX6OQ3DkcsbYNE6H8uQQuVA"],
  "searchQueries": ["home espresso"],
  "maxChannelsPerSearch": 50,
  "minSubscribers": 10000
}

Output

Real output (default input)

First 2 of 2 records from a run with the prefilled input (2.5 s on a test machine; long values shortened here):

[
  {
    "channelId": "UCLA_DiR1FfKNvjuUpBHmylQ",
    "title": "NASA",
    "handle": "@NASA",
    "verified": true,
    "description": "NASA's mission is to pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery, and aeronautics research.\r\n\r\nTo do that, we have worked …",
    "keywords": "nasa space iss shuttle 50th astronauts planets earth rockets hubble telescopes NASA TV galaxy apollo gemini mercury sta Moon Artemis \"solar …",
    "avatar": "https://yt3.googleusercontent.com/eIf5fNPcIcj9ig-wZBeq4stFy1lgjWTW1nLT5dYlFkHZprZ03QBiMcbpwNMB6XSBjrSFGtAGQg=s900-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj",
    "banner": "https://yt3.googleusercontent.com/y8Srh-oCcilLvBO8jAPI546m1bn0puA5DIvQiBZ1cSxc_rZfKxKSFlTCtoCQCtB6viUf1NGsaQ=w2560-fcrop64=1,00005a57ffffa5a…",
    "isFamilySafe": true,
    "rssUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCLA_DiR1FfKNvjuUpBHmylQ",
    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/@NASA",
    "channelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLA_DiR1FfKNvjuUpBHmylQ",
    "subscribers": 15100000,
    "subscribersText": "15.1M subscribers",
    "totalViews": 1128842971,
    "videos": 6189,
    "avgViewsPerVideo": 182395,
    "joinedDate": "2008-06-03",
    "country": null,
    "links": [
      {
        "title": "nasa.gov",
        "url": "https://www.nasa.gov"
      },
      {
        "title": "X",
        "url": "https://x.com/nasa"
      },
      {
        "title": "Facebook",
        "url": "https://www.facebook.com/NASA"
      }
    ],
    "hasBusinessEmail": false,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-15T12:12:01.672Z"
  },
  {
    "channelId": "UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ",
    "title": "Marques Brownlee",
    "handle": "@mkbhd",
    "verified": true,
    "description": "MKBHD: Quality Tech Videos | YouTuber | Geek | Consumer Electronics | Tech Head | Internet Personality!\n\nbusiness@MKBHD.com\n\nNYC",
    "keywords": "MKBHD MarquesBrownlee Marques Brownlee",
    "avatar": "https://yt3.googleusercontent.com/qu4TmIaYUlS41-dJ9gZ7DUR3nilvmB5_11i6OKSdvNnBNiyOusZP1bMN6ICnuxtjFBb6ioKgRQ=s900-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj",
    "banner": "https://yt3.googleusercontent.com/zi_48HwHU4s0Hnb6tZuvRzTfCPHrLEnrtIMDLzMauDEyDmURh9JZ4wrNd3lKr7m9uVnT4YjYKw=w2560-fcrop64=1,00005a57ffffa5a…",
    "isFamilySafe": true,
    "rssUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ",
    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd",
    "channelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ",
    "subscribers": 21400000,
    "subscribersText": "21.4M subscribers",
    "totalViews": 5775491395,
    "videos": 1858,
    "avgViewsPerVideo": 3108445,
    "joinedDate": "2008-03-21",
    "country": "United States",
    "links": [
      {
        "title": "Twitter",
        "url": "http://twitter.com/MKBHD"
      },
      {
        "title": "Instagram",
        "url": "http://instagram.com/MKBHD"
      },
      {
        "title": "The Studio",
        "url": "http://youtube.com/c/TheStudio"
      }
    ],
    "hasBusinessEmail": true,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-15T12:12:01.697Z"
  }
]

{
  "channelId": "UCX6OQ3DkcsbYNE6H8uQQuVA",
  "title": "MrBeast",
  "handle": "@MrBeast",
  "verified": true,
  "subscribers": 521000000,
  "totalViews": 142688379304,
  "videos": 1006,
  "avgViewsPerVideo": 141837355,
  "joinedDate": "2012-02-19",
  "country": "United States",
  "links": [{ "title": "Follow", "url": "https://www.instagram.com/mrbeast/" }, { "title": "Twitter", "url": "https://twitter.com/MrBeast" }],
  "hasBusinessEmail": true,
  "url": "https://www.youtube.com/@MrBeast"
}

Need the channel's videos? Use our YouTube Scraper with the same channel URLs.

Pricing

• $3.00 per 1,000 channels ($0.003 per channel).
• The prefilled input returns 2 channels → $0.006.
• Example: 1,000 channels → $3.00; 10,000 → $30.00. Set Max results (cost cap) to limit any run.

• Filtered and missing channels are free.
• Your Apify spending limit is respected exactly: the actor stops charging and finishes cleanly when it is reached. Apify platform usage (compute, proxy) is included in the price.

Use with AI agents (MCP), LangChain, RAG & the API

This actor is a ready-made tool for AI agents: an LLM can call it, wait for the run and read clean JSON back.

MCP server (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, any MCP client) — add Apify's hosted MCP server with this actor enabled as a tool:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=torix33/youtube-channel-scraper",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer <APIFY_TOKEN>" }
    }
  }
}

LangChain / LangGraph (pip install langchain-apify, set APIFY_API_TOKEN):

import json
from langchain_apify import ApifyActorsTool, ApifyWrapper
from langchain_core.documents import Document

# 1) give the actor to an agent as a tool
tool = ApifyActorsTool("torix33/youtube-channel-scraper")

# 2) or load results as Documents for a RAG index
loader = ApifyWrapper().call_actor(
    actor_id="torix33/youtube-channel-scraper",
    run_input={"channels": ["@mkbhd", "https://www.youtube.com/@NASA", "UCX6OQ3DkcsbYNE6H8uQQuVA"], "searchQueries": ["home espresso"], "maxChannelsPerSearch": 50, "minSubscribers": 10000},
    dataset_mapping_function=lambda item: Document(page_content=json.dumps(item, ensure_ascii=False), metadata={"url": item.get("url")}),
)
docs = loader.load()

REST API — one synchronous call, dataset items in the response:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/torix33~youtube-channel-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<APIFY_TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"channels": ["@mkbhd", "https://www.youtube.com/@NASA", "UCX6OQ3DkcsbYNE6H8uQQuVA"], "searchQueries": ["home espresso"], "maxChannelsPerSearch": 50, "minSubscribers": 10000}'

Also works with the Apify Python/JS clients, Make, Zapier, n8n, Google Sheets, webhooks and schedules. Export as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or RSS.

RAG tip: An influencer-discovery agent can search a topic, filter by subscribers and country, and pull outreach links from links.

Limitations

• No channel email: YouTube hides it behind a captcha; hasBusinessEmail only tells you whether one exists.
• Subscriber and view counts are what YouTube displays publicly.
• Only public channels; no API key or OAuth data (e.g. analytics).

FAQ

Do I need a YouTube API key? No. No API key and no quota.

Can I find channels by topic? Yes. Use searchQueries; filter with minSubscribers.

Does it return the channel email? No — YouTube hides it behind a captcha. hasBusinessEmail tells you whether one exists, and links gives the public website and social links.