YouTube Channel Latest Videos (RSS, no API key)

What is YouTube Channel Latest Videos?

YouTube Channel Latest Videos is an Apify Actor that returns the newest uploads of any YouTube channel — title, watch URL, view count, like count, description, thumbnail and publish date — as one clean dataset row per video. It reads the channel's public Atom RSS feed (youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml), so there is no YouTube Data API key, no daily quota, and no browser. Give it a UC... channel ID, an @handle, or any channel URL and it resolves the rest automatically.

What data does YouTube Channel Latest Videos extract?

Every row is one video, with 16 fields:

Field	Type	Description
channelId, channelName, channelUrl	string	Resolved UC... ID, display name and canonical channel URL
videoId, title, url	string	Video ID, title and the /watch?v= URL (Shorts included)
publishedAt, updatedAt	string (ISO)	When the video went live and when the feed entry last changed
daysSincePublished	integer	Whole days between publish date and the run
description	string	Video description, truncated to 2,000 characters
thumbnailUrl	string	480x360 thumbnail image URL
viewCount, likeCount	integer	View count and like count (star-rating count) at run time
query	string	The channel input exactly as entered, e.g. @MrBeast
error	string	Why a channel produced no videos, e.g. a blocked handle lookup
scrapedAt	string (ISO)	Run timestamp

How to use YouTube Channel Latest Videos

1. Paste your channels into YouTube channels. Every form works: a channel ID (UCX6OQ3DkcsbYNE6H8uQQuVA), a handle (@MrBeast), or a full channel URL (https://www.youtube.com/@apify, /channel/UC..., /c/Name, /user/Name).
2. Leave Max videos per channel at 15 — that is the entire content of YouTube's public RSS feed; there is no way to page further back without the official Data API.
3. Raise Max concurrency for long lists of channels, click Start, then export the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML.

Example input

{
    "channels": ["@MrBeast", "https://www.youtube.com/@apify"],
    "maxVideosPerChannel": 15,
    "maxConcurrency": 5
}

Example output

{
    "channelId": "UCX6OQ3DkcsbYNE6H8uQQuVA",
    "channelName": "MrBeast",
    "channelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX6OQ3DkcsbYNE6H8uQQuVA",
    "videoId": "gTKS8SAwUzE",
    "title": "I Survived The Most Extreme Places On Earth",
    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTKS8SAwUzE",
    "publishedAt": "2026-09-05T16:00:01.000Z",
    "updatedAt": "2026-09-12T16:18:22.000Z",
    "daysSincePublished": 7,
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://i4.ytimg.com/vi/gTKS8SAwUzE/hqdefault.jpg",
    "viewCount": 83907624,
    "likeCount": 1249202,
    "query": "@MrBeast",
    "error": null,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-09-12T18:00:00.000Z"
}

Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
channels	array	["UCX6OQ3DkcsbYNE6H8uQQuVA"]	Channel IDs, handles or channel URLs, one row set per channel
proxyMode	string	"auto"	auto, always or never, see Proxy requirement below
proxyConfiguration	object	Residential proxy	Which proxy group to use when proxyMode needs one
maxVideosPerChannel	integer	15	Newest videos to return per channel (1-15; the feed never holds more than 15)
maxConcurrency	integer	5	Channels read in parallel (1-20)

Proxy requirement

Passing a channel ID (UC...) needs no extra request at all — the Atom feed serves any client. Passing a handle (@MrBeast) or a legacy channel URL costs one extra request to read that channel's page and pull its UC... ID out of the HTML, and that specific request can get YouTube's "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot" page (or Google's "unusual traffic" captcha wall) when it comes from an Apify platform (datacenter) IP. The Proxy mode input controls the response: Auto (default) tries that request directly first — $0 proxy cost — and only switches to Apify Proxy (see Proxy configuration) for the rest of the run if it gets blocked; Always skips straight to the proxy; Never always stays direct. The Atom feed request itself is never proxied.

Pricing

YouTube Channel Latest Videos uses pay-per-event pricing: $0.001 per video result, i.e. $1 per 1,000 videos, plus a negligible actor-start fee, platform usage included. A channel ID needs one request (the feed); a handle or channel URL needs one extra request to resolve the ID first. Set Maximum cost per run and the Actor trims the channel list to what the budget covers instead of overspending.

Apify Proxy adds a small infrastructure cost on top of that when a handle needs resolving (see Proxy requirement above), paid from your Apify plan's proxy allowance. With the default Auto proxy mode, that cost is $0 whenever direct resolution isn't currently blocked. Measured live with proxyMode: "always" (proxy forced on a 15-video run for @MrBeast, one handle resolution amortized over 15 rows): proxy data transfer cost ~$0.00007 per video row — a small fraction of the per-row price, well inside the free plan's Residential allowance. Passing a plain UC... channel ID skips this entirely.

YouTube Channel Latest Videos vs. the YouTube Data API

The official YouTube Data API v3 needs a Google Cloud project, an API key, and burns through its free 10,000-unit daily quota in a few hundred search.list calls. This Actor reads the same public RSS feed a browser or feed reader gets, with no key, no quota and no OAuth — trading full history and comments for the 15 most recent uploads, delivered as a ready-to-export dataset instead of raw API JSON.

Using YouTube Channel Latest Videos with AI agents and MCP

YouTube Channel Latest Videos is pay-per-event with limited permissions — the two requirements for an Actor to be callable through the Apify MCP server at mcp.apify.com. An agent passes channels and gets back one structured row per video, ready for a "did channel X upload this week" check, a competitor-monitoring digest, or a content-research pipeline. The same run works from n8n, Make, Zapier and LangChain through Apify's integrations, and pairs well with an Apify schedule and webhook for "alert me when this channel uploads."

FAQ

Why only 15 videos per channel? YouTube's public Atom feed (feeds/videos.xml) only ever contains a channel's 15 most recent uploads — that limit comes from YouTube, not this Actor. For deeper history you need the official Data API and a key.

Why do handles sometimes fail to resolve? Resolving @handle or a channel URL to a UC... ID needs one extra request to the channel page, which YouTube can occasionally answer with a cookie-consent wall or a bot check instead of the real page. When that happens the row carries error: "Could not resolve handle to channel ID (blocked)" — pass the UC... channel ID directly (found in the channel's "Share channel" dialog, or via any handle→ID lookup tool) to skip that request entirely.

Does this include Shorts and live streams? Yes — the feed lists Shorts and completed live streams alongside regular uploads; this Actor links all of them with the same /watch?v= URL so every row has the same shape.

Is this legal to run? Yes. The Atom feed is a public endpoint YouTube serves to any client, with no login or authentication, for exactly this purpose (RSS readers). No private or personal data is collected.

Can I export to CSV or Excel? Yes, from the Output tab or the API, with ready-made Overview and Full video details views.

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Support and feedback

Found a channel that fails to resolve, a feed field that's missing, or a parsing bug? Open an issue on the Issues tab.