YouTube Channel Video Scraper

Overview

This Apify actor scrapes video data and analytics from YouTube channels. It extracts detailed information for each video, including metadata, engagement metrics, and channel details. It's built for Node.js 18+ and is suitable for content analysis, marketing research, and data collection.

Key Features

• Extracts comprehensive data: Video title, ID, URL, description, thumbnail, published time, and duration. Captures engagement metrics (views, likes, comments) and channel info (name, URL, subscriber count).
• Flexible scraping: Accepts one or multiple channel handles or URLs. Can fetch all uploads from a channel or a limited number of videos.
• Configurable performance: Supports parallel processing with configurable batch size (maxRequest). Includes error handling with retries (maxRequestRetries).
• Structured output: Returns clean JSON data for easy integration and analysis.

How to Use

Provide channel identifiers and configure the run parameters via the actor's input.

Basic Input Example:

{
  "channelHandle": ["https://www.youtube.com/@20VC"],
  "fetchAll": false,
  "maxVideos": 10
}

To scrape all videos from a channel:
Set "fetchAll": true. The actor will paginate through all available uploads.

To scrape multiple channels:
Add more URLs or handles (e.g., @ycombinator) to the channelHandle array.

Input Parameters

Output

The actor outputs a dataset of items, each representing a video with the following structure:

{
  "videoId": "kZ5AZ6bt_r8",
  "title": "Video Title",
  "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZ5AZ6bt_r8",
  "publishedAt": "2024-01-01T12:00:00.000Z",
  "duration": "PT5M30S",
  "description": "Video description text.",
  "thumbnail": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/kZ5AZ6bt_r8/hqdefault.jpg",
  "viewCount": "150000",
  "likeCount": "5000",
  "commentCount": "300",
  "channelName": "Channel Name",
  "channelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/@channel",
  "channelSubscriberCount": "1000000"
}

Results are available in the Apify platform for download as JSON, CSV, or via API.