YouTube Channel Info Scraper

Give it YouTube channel URLs, handles or ids, get back one row per channel with subscribers, total views, join date, country, links and About page data. You only pay for the channels that are actually found.

A channel that does not exist, or the same channel entered twice, still comes back in the dataset, for free.

What people use it for

• Market research. Paste a list of competitor channels and get subscriber counts, total views and countries in one table.
• Influencer vetting. Check a creator's subscriber count, join date and whether they are verified before reaching out.
• CRM enrichment. You have channel URLs in a sheet and want the stats next to them.
• Monitoring. Track a channel's subscriber and view counts over time by running this on a schedule.

How to use it

1. Add your channels in Channel URLs / handles / ids, one per line. Any of these works:
   • a handle: @mkbhd or mkbhd
   • a channel URL: https://www.youtube.com/@veritasium, /channel/UC..., /c/... or /user/...
   • a channel id: UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ
   • a video URL (we return the channel that posted it)
2. Click Start. Export as JSON, CSV or Excel, or pull the results through the API.

{
  "startUrls": ["@veritasium", "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ"]
}

What you get

{
  "channelName": "Veritasium",
  "channelId": "UCHnyfMqiRRG1u-2MsSQLbXA",
  "channelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/@veritasium",
  "channelUsername": "veritasium",
  "channelHandle": "@veritasium",
  "numberOfSubscribers": 21300000,
  "channelTotalVideos": 536,
  "channelTotalViews": 4591074590,
  "channelJoinedDate": "2010-07-21T00:00:00.000Z",
  "channelLocation": "United States",
  "channelDescription": "An element of truth.",
  "channelDescriptionLinks": [{ "text": "Patreon", "url": "https://patreon.com/veritasium" }],
  "channelKeywords": ["science videos", "science", "veritasium"],
  "isFamilySafe": true,
  "hasHiddenBusinessEmail": true,
  "isChannelVerified": true,
  "isAgeRestricted": false,
  "input": "@veritasium"
}

• numberOfSubscribers, channelTotalVideos, channelTotalViews: the channel's own stats, as plain numbers.
• channelLocation: the country set on the channel's About page, or null when the creator did not set one.
• channelDescriptionLinks: every custom link on the About page, with its label and URL.
• hasHiddenBusinessEmail: true when the channel has a business email that YouTube keeps behind a sign-in + captcha button we never click. null when we could not tell.
• channelKeywords: the tags the creator set for search, often empty.

Pricing

0.80 USD per 1,000 channels found. No monthly fee, no charge for the Apify platform usage on top. A channel that does not exist, or that resolves to one you already got in the same run, is free.

Example: 1,000 distinct channel URLs costs 0.80 USD.

Good to know

• You don't need a proxy, a YouTube account or an API key.
• Want the channel's videos and Shorts too? See our YouTube Channel Scraper.
• Want the channel's business email? See our YouTube Channel Email Finder.

Use it from n8n, Make or an API

• Small inputs: call run-sync-get-dataset-items and read the items back directly. Set Time budget (seconds) (default 240) to how long you are willing to wait: the actor stops starting new lookups before that point and returns what it already has, so you never hit Apify's 300 second run-sync limit. Any channel left unfinished comes back as a TIME_BUDGET_EXCEEDED row instead of being silently dropped.
• Big inputs: start the run with POST /v2/acts/vakitek~youtube-channel-info/runs, poll GET /v2/actor-runs/<runId> (or add waitForFinish=60) until the status is SUCCEEDED, then read GET /v2/datasets/<datasetId>/items. Set Time budget (seconds) to 0 (no limit) for this pattern.

Errors

A bad input never crashes the run. It becomes a row with an error code, and you are not charged for it.

error	What happened	Retry?
NOT_FOUND	The handle, URL or id doesn't match a real channel	No
INVALID_URL	The input isn't a channel handle, id, URL, or a video URL we can resolve to a channel	No
INVALID_INPUT	An option value is invalid	No
DUPLICATE	Two different inputs resolved to the same channel; the second one is free	No
BLOCKED	YouTube refused us for now, even after trying every proxy tier	Yes
UPSTREAM_ERROR	Something went wrong on YouTube's side or ours	Yes
UPSTREAM_UNAVAILABLE	Our API was unreachable	Yes
TIME_BUDGET_EXCEEDED	The time budget ran out before this channel finished	Yes

Some rows also carry a legacyError field with the old, pre-unification code name (for example CHANNEL_NOT_FOUND) so a pipeline still matching on it keeps working while it migrates to error.

FAQ

I already use another YouTube channel info actor. Do I have to change my code? No. The output field names match the most used channel info actor on the Store, so switching needs no pipeline changes.

Can I call it from my code or from an AI agent? Yes, like any Apify actor: REST API, the Python and JavaScript clients, or the Apify MCP server. The examples are in the API tab.

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