YouTube Featured Channels Scraper
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YouTube Featured Channels Scraper
Get the featured & recommended channels a YouTube creator endorses on their Channels tab. Input a channel ID, get clean deduped channel IDs — ideal for niche mapping, competitor discovery, and influencer research. No API key, no quota; residential proxy handled automatically.
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Give it a YouTube channel ID, get back the featured / recommended channels that creator endorses on their Channels tab — clean, deduped channel IDs ready for your pipeline.
This is the strongest "same niche, creator-approved" signal on YouTube: channels a creator chooses to feature are almost always direct peers, collabs, or their own side channels. Perfect seed-expansion for niche mapping.
Use cases
- Niche mapping — start from one known channel, snowball outward to map an entire niche.
- Competitor discovery — find who your competitors publicly associate with.
- Influencer research — build lists of adjacent creators for outreach or sponsorship scouting.
- Recommendation seeds — feed adjacent channels into your own analytics or ML pipeline.
Input
| Field | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|
channelId | string (required) | The seed channel ID (UC…). |
maxChannels | integer | Cap on returned channels. Default 50, max 200. |
proxyConfiguration | object | Preconfigured — residential proxy is used automatically (YouTube blocks datacenter IPs). You normally don't need to touch this. |
Don't have the channel ID? Open the channel page, view source, and search for channelId, or use any handle-to-ID converter.
Output
Dataset items, one per adjacent channel, seed excluded, deduped, in the order the creator lists them:
Minimal by design — pipe the IDs into the YouTube Data API, another scraper, or your own tooling for stats, titles, and uploads.
How it works
The actor fetches the channel's Channels tab through Apify residential proxy (with consent cookies pre-set, so EU interstitials don't blank the result) and parses the embedded ytInitialData — no browser, no YouTube API key, no quota.
Limitations (honest ones)
- Only returns channels the creator chose to feature on their Channels tab. A channel that features nothing returns 0 results — that's YouTube, not a bug.
- This is not the "viewers also watch" algorithm — it's the creator's own endorsement list, which is usually higher-signal.
- One run = one seed channel. Loop over your seed list to snowball.
