YouTube Creator Portfolio Planner
Pricing
from $8.40 / 1,000 creator assessments
Build a ranked creator shortlist from YouTube discovery datasets. Deduplicate channels, compare observed seed overlap and subscriber bands, and keep the evidence behind each creator assessment.
You can access the YouTube Creator Portfolio Planner programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.
1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token5const client = new ApifyClient({6 token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',7});8
9// Prepare Actor input10const input = {11 "items": [12 {13 "requestedChannel": "@mkbhd",14 "requestedChannelId": "UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ",15 "requestedCanonicalChannelUrl": "http://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd",16 "similarChannelId": "UCG7J20LhUeLl6y_Emi7OJrA",17 "similarChannelName": "The Studio",18 "similarSubscriberCountText": "1.15M subscribers",19 "widgetPosition": 1,20 "source": "about-page-similar-channels-widget",21 "status": "ok",22 "confidence": "display-text",23 "partial": false,24 "action": "ingest",25 "error": null,26 "checkedAt": "2026-09-22T05:46:32.738Z",27 "_exampleProvenance": {28 "sourceActorId": "sMokIFjXOK7W7zbfU",29 "sourceRunId": "cJ6Tezu4odFHY9tDM",30 "sourceDatasetId": "wm2PnJsPBGeG68p3T",31 "curatedPublicSnapshot": true,32 "redaction": "Allowlisted public business/product fields only; review excerpts and social captions truncated; no reviewer identities."33 }34 },35 {36 "requestedChannel": "@mkbhd",37 "requestedChannelId": "UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ",38 "requestedCanonicalChannelUrl": "http://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd",39 "similarChannelId": "UC2J-0g_nxlwcD9JBK1eTleQ",40 "similarChannelName": "Auto Focus",41 "similarSubscriberCountText": "1.27M subscribers",42 "widgetPosition": 2,43 "source": "about-page-similar-channels-widget",44 "status": "ok",45 "confidence": "display-text",46 "partial": false,47 "action": "ingest",48 "error": null,49 "checkedAt": "2026-09-22T05:46:32.738Z",50 "_exampleProvenance": {51 "sourceActorId": "sMokIFjXOK7W7zbfU",52 "sourceRunId": "cJ6Tezu4odFHY9tDM",53 "sourceDatasetId": "wm2PnJsPBGeG68p3T",54 "curatedPublicSnapshot": true,55 "redaction": "Allowlisted public business/product fields only; review excerpts and social captions truncated; no reviewer identities."56 }57 },58 {59 "requestedChannel": "@mkbhd",60 "requestedChannelId": "UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ",61 "requestedCanonicalChannelUrl": "http://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd",62 "similarChannelId": "UCEcrRXW3oEYfUctetZTAWLw",63 "similarChannelName": "WVFRM Podcast",64 "similarSubscriberCountText": "529K subscribers",65 "widgetPosition": 3,66 "source": "about-page-similar-channels-widget",67 "status": "ok",68 "confidence": "display-text",69 "partial": false,70 "action": "ingest",71 "error": null,72 "checkedAt": "2026-09-22T05:46:32.738Z",73 "_exampleProvenance": {74 "sourceActorId": "sMokIFjXOK7W7zbfU",75 "sourceRunId": "cJ6Tezu4odFHY9tDM",76 "sourceDatasetId": "wm2PnJsPBGeG68p3T",77 "curatedPublicSnapshot": true,78 "redaction": "Allowlisted public business/product fields only; review excerpts and social captions truncated; no reviewer identities."79 }80 },81 {82 "requestedChannel": "@mkbhd",83 "requestedChannelId": "UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ",84 "requestedCanonicalChannelUrl": "http://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd",85 "similarChannelId": "UCc_ycus0q7DSd85ZkmEY5ig",86 "similarChannelName": "Waveform Clips",87 "similarSubscriberCountText": "544K subscribers",88 "widgetPosition": 4,89 "source": "about-page-similar-channels-widget",90 "status": "ok",91 "confidence": "display-text",92 "partial": false,93 "action": "ingest",94 "error": null,95 "checkedAt": "2026-09-22T05:46:32.738Z",96 "_exampleProvenance": {97 "sourceActorId": "sMokIFjXOK7W7zbfU",98 "sourceRunId": "cJ6Tezu4odFHY9tDM",99 "sourceDatasetId": "wm2PnJsPBGeG68p3T",100 "curatedPublicSnapshot": true,101 "redaction": "Allowlisted public business/product fields only; review excerpts and social captions truncated; no reviewer identities."102 }103 },104 {105 "requestedChannel": "@mkbhd",106 "requestedChannelId": "UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ",107 "requestedCanonicalChannelUrl": "http://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd",108 "similarChannelId": "UCKQCaDW4LqL3l1ai8yisvUw",109 "similarChannelName": "20syl",110 "similarSubscriberCountText": "233K subscribers",111 "widgetPosition": 5,112 "source": "about-page-similar-channels-widget",113 "status": "ok",114 "confidence": "display-text",115 "partial": false,116 "action": "ingest",117 "error": null,118 "checkedAt": "2026-09-22T05:46:32.738Z",119 "_exampleProvenance": {120 "sourceActorId": "sMokIFjXOK7W7zbfU",121 "sourceRunId": "cJ6Tezu4odFHY9tDM",122 "sourceDatasetId": "wm2PnJsPBGeG68p3T",123 "curatedPublicSnapshot": true,124 "redaction": "Allowlisted public business/product fields only; review excerpts and social captions truncated; no reviewer identities."125 }126 }127 ]128};129
130// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish131const run = await client.actor("zinin/youtube-creator-portfolio-planner").call(input);132
133// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)134console.log('Results from dataset');135console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);136const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();137items.forEach((item) => {138 console.dir(item);139});140
141// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docsThe Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use YouTube Creator Portfolio Planner API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$npm install apify-clientOther API clients include: