YouTube Channel Change Monitor

Unofficial tool. Not affiliated with or endorsed by YouTube or Google.

Monitor public YouTube channel video feeds and detect meaningful changes between runs instead of repeatedly processing the same recent videos.

What it detects

• Newly observed uploads
• Video title / feed metadata updates
• Upload activity over the last 7 and 30 days
• Days since the latest upload
• Recent-video view growth when the public feed exposes view counts
• Channel activity signal: ACCELERATING, STABLE, or SLOWING

The first run creates a baseline, so existing videos are not incorrectly reported as new.

Data source

Uses YouTube's public channel video feed:

https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id={CHANNEL_ID}

No YouTube API key, login credentials, browser automation, proxy, paid data provider, or AI API is required.

Input

• Up to 50 YouTube channel IDs
• ID-based YouTube /channel/UC... URLs
• Direct YouTube channel feed URLs
• Stable Monitor ID
• Optional baseline-video output

V1 intentionally uses channel IDs rather than scraping handle pages to keep the Actor lightweight and reliable.

Output

Each channel receives a summary containing:

• Channel title and ID
• Newly observed videos
• Video metadata updates
• Uploads in the last 7 days
• Uploads in the last 30 days
• Days since the latest upload
• Recent-video view delta when available
• Activity signal
• Snapshot hash
• Observation timestamp

Detailed NEW_VIDEO and VIDEO_UPDATED records are emitted when meaningful changes are detected.

Important feed behavior

YouTube's channel feed is a rolling recent-video window.

Therefore, this Actor reports newly observed videos, but it does not label videos that disappear from the rolling feed as deleted or removed.

Use cases

• Competitor channel monitoring
• Brand video monitoring
• Creator monitoring
• Upload-frequency tracking
• Content research
• Campaign monitoring
• YouTube publishing intelligence

Scheduling

Every 6–12 hours or daily is usually enough.

Pricing

Recommended Store launch pricing:

• $0.20 per Actor start
• No additional per-result charge

The Actor has no paid upstream data dependency.

Reliability

• Stateful comparison between runs
• Duplicate-change protection
• Fetch-all-before-state-mutation fail-closed behavior
• Existing state preserved if any channel feed fails
• Maximum 50 channels per run
• No YouTube credentials collected
• No paid API dependency

Why use this instead of a raw YouTube scraper?

A raw scraper answers:

"What videos are visible now?"

YouTube Channel Change Monitor answers:

"What changed since the previous check?"

That makes it useful for continuous competitor and creator intelligence.

Disclaimer

This tool monitors publicly available YouTube feed information. Users are responsible for complying with applicable laws and YouTube/Google terms.

This is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by YouTube or Google.