YouTube Video & Channel Scraper — metadata and stats as JSON

Scrape YouTube videos and channels: titles, views, likes, duration, publish dates, descriptions, tags and channel statistics — from video URLs, channel URLs or search queries, delivered as structured JSON. Built for content research, trend analysis, competitor monitoring and AI agents that need fresh YouTube data.

Use this tool when…

• You need video or channel metadata at scale (views, likes, dates, tags).
• You want to research what content performs in a niche, with numbers.
• Your AI agent needs YouTube data — via the Apify MCP server, Claude/GPT/Cursor/n8n can call it with zero glue code.
• You want to monitor competitor channels: what they publish and how it performs.

Features

• Video scraping from URLs or IDs (youtube.com/watch, youtu.be): title, description, views, likes, duration, publish date, tags, thumbnail.
• Channel scraping (@handle, /channel/, /c/ formats): subscriber count, total views, video count, recent videos.
• Search mode: run YouTube search queries and get the top results with stats.
• Batch mode: dozens of URLs or queries per run.
• Structured JSON output as JSON, CSV or Excel, or via the Apify API.
• AI-agent ready: README and input schema readable by LLMs through MCP.

Use cases

Content research

Find which formats, titles and lengths get views in your vertical before you produce.

Competitor channel monitoring

Track publishing cadence and performance of competing channels week over week.

Trend and keyword analysis

See which videos rank for your target queries and how fast they accumulate views.

Dataset building

Collect training or analysis datasets of video metadata at scale.

Input

Field	Type	Required	Description	Example
videoUrls	array	optional	Video URLs or IDs	["https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ"]
channelUrls	array	optional	Channel URLs (@handle, /channel/, /c/)	["@MrBeast"]
searchQueries	array	optional	YouTube search queries	["AI agents tutorial"]
maxResults	integer	no	Max results per query (1–50)	20

{ "searchQueries": ["AI agents tutorial"], "maxResults": 10 }

Output

Videos: title, description, views, likes, duration, publishedAt, tags, channelName, videoUrl, thumbnailUrl. Channels: channelName, subscribers, totalViews, videoCount, videos[] (recent videos with stats).

Pricing (pay per event)

Event	Price
video-scraped	$0.002 per video

1,000 videos = $2.00. No subscription. Platform margin: Apify takes 20%. Tiered Apify plans (Bronze/Silver/Gold) get progressively lower prices.

Agentic payments (x402 / USDC)

This actor supports x402 agentic payments: AI agents without an Apify account can call it and pay per call in USDC on Base — verified live.

FAQ

Does it use the official YouTube API? No API key needed — it scrapes public pages directly.

Can I scrape a whole channel? Yes: pass the channel URL and set maxResults for how many recent videos to include.

How fresh is the data? Live at run time.

Does it work with Claude, Cursor, GPT or n8n? Yes, via the Apify MCP server.

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