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.
1from apify_client import ApifyClient2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")6
7# Prepare the Actor input8run_input = { "items": [9 {10 "requestedChannel": "@mkbhd",11 "requestedChannelId": "UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ",12 "requestedCanonicalChannelUrl": "http://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd",13 "similarChannelId": "UCG7J20LhUeLl6y_Emi7OJrA",14 "similarChannelName": "The Studio",15 "similarSubscriberCountText": "1.15M subscribers",16 "widgetPosition": 1,17 "source": "about-page-similar-channels-widget",18 "status": "ok",19 "confidence": "display-text",20 "partial": False,21 "action": "ingest",22 "error": None,23 "checkedAt": "2026-09-22T05:46:32.738Z",24 "_exampleProvenance": {25 "sourceActorId": "sMokIFjXOK7W7zbfU",26 "sourceRunId": "cJ6Tezu4odFHY9tDM",27 "sourceDatasetId": "wm2PnJsPBGeG68p3T",28 "curatedPublicSnapshot": True,29 "redaction": "Allowlisted public business/product fields only; review excerpts and social captions truncated; no reviewer identities.",30 },31 },32 {33 "requestedChannel": "@mkbhd",34 "requestedChannelId": "UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ",35 "requestedCanonicalChannelUrl": "http://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd",36 "similarChannelId": "UC2J-0g_nxlwcD9JBK1eTleQ",37 "similarChannelName": "Auto Focus",38 "similarSubscriberCountText": "1.27M subscribers",39 "widgetPosition": 2,40 "source": "about-page-similar-channels-widget",41 "status": "ok",42 "confidence": "display-text",43 "partial": False,44 "action": "ingest",45 "error": None,46 "checkedAt": "2026-09-22T05:46:32.738Z",47 "_exampleProvenance": {48 "sourceActorId": "sMokIFjXOK7W7zbfU",49 "sourceRunId": "cJ6Tezu4odFHY9tDM",50 "sourceDatasetId": "wm2PnJsPBGeG68p3T",51 "curatedPublicSnapshot": True,52 "redaction": "Allowlisted public business/product fields only; review excerpts and social captions truncated; no reviewer identities.",53 },54 },55 {56 "requestedChannel": "@mkbhd",57 "requestedChannelId": "UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ",58 "requestedCanonicalChannelUrl": "http://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd",59 "similarChannelId": "UCEcrRXW3oEYfUctetZTAWLw",60 "similarChannelName": "WVFRM Podcast",61 "similarSubscriberCountText": "529K subscribers",62 "widgetPosition": 3,63 "source": "about-page-similar-channels-widget",64 "status": "ok",65 "confidence": "display-text",66 "partial": False,67 "action": "ingest",68 "error": None,69 "checkedAt": "2026-09-22T05:46:32.738Z",70 "_exampleProvenance": {71 "sourceActorId": "sMokIFjXOK7W7zbfU",72 "sourceRunId": "cJ6Tezu4odFHY9tDM",73 "sourceDatasetId": "wm2PnJsPBGeG68p3T",74 "curatedPublicSnapshot": True,75 "redaction": "Allowlisted public business/product fields only; review excerpts and social captions truncated; no reviewer identities.",76 },77 },78 {79 "requestedChannel": "@mkbhd",80 "requestedChannelId": "UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ",81 "requestedCanonicalChannelUrl": "http://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd",82 "similarChannelId": "UCc_ycus0q7DSd85ZkmEY5ig",83 "similarChannelName": "Waveform Clips",84 "similarSubscriberCountText": "544K subscribers",85 "widgetPosition": 4,86 "source": "about-page-similar-channels-widget",87 "status": "ok",88 "confidence": "display-text",89 "partial": False,90 "action": "ingest",91 "error": None,92 "checkedAt": "2026-09-22T05:46:32.738Z",93 "_exampleProvenance": {94 "sourceActorId": "sMokIFjXOK7W7zbfU",95 "sourceRunId": "cJ6Tezu4odFHY9tDM",96 "sourceDatasetId": "wm2PnJsPBGeG68p3T",97 "curatedPublicSnapshot": True,98 "redaction": "Allowlisted public business/product fields only; review excerpts and social captions truncated; no reviewer identities.",99 },100 },101 {102 "requestedChannel": "@mkbhd",103 "requestedChannelId": "UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ",104 "requestedCanonicalChannelUrl": "http://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd",105 "similarChannelId": "UCKQCaDW4LqL3l1ai8yisvUw",106 "similarChannelName": "20syl",107 "similarSubscriberCountText": "233K subscribers",108 "widgetPosition": 5,109 "source": "about-page-similar-channels-widget",110 "status": "ok",111 "confidence": "display-text",112 "partial": False,113 "action": "ingest",114 "error": None,115 "checkedAt": "2026-09-22T05:46:32.738Z",116 "_exampleProvenance": {117 "sourceActorId": "sMokIFjXOK7W7zbfU",118 "sourceRunId": "cJ6Tezu4odFHY9tDM",119 "sourceDatasetId": "wm2PnJsPBGeG68p3T",120 "curatedPublicSnapshot": True,121 "redaction": "Allowlisted public business/product fields only; review excerpts and social captions truncated; no reviewer identities.",122 },123 },124 ] }125
126# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish127run = client.actor("zinin/youtube-creator-portfolio-planner").call(run_input=run_input)128
129# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)130print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")131for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():132 print(item)133
134# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-startThe Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use YouTube Creator Portfolio Planner API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$pip install apify-clientOther API clients include: