YouTube Channel Scraper

Channel handle in. Subscriber count plus recent videos (title, views, duration, thumbnail) out.

When to use it

Use this to monitor a known creator: subscriber snapshot plus the latest uploads. Default 20 videos per channel, cap 50.

Versus the sibling Actors

This is not search. You already know the handle. For a keyword, use YouTube Search Scraper. For likes and description on a specific upload, pass the video ID to YouTube Metadata Scraper.

Example input

{
  "channelHandles": [
    "@mkbhd"
  ],
  "limit": 20,
  "maxResults": 20
}

Example output

{
  "channelHandle": "@mkbhd",
  "subscribers": 21200000,
  "title": "Google Pixel 11/Pro Review: Poker Face",
  "videoId": "ANmTVYkEtLw",
  "views": 3700000
}

MCP pin

Agents call this through Apify MCP. Running it needs an Apify token.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=datacortex/youtube-channel-scraper"
    }
  }
}

Pricing

$0.50 per 1,000 results + $0.001 per run. Confirm on the Apify pricing tab if you are budgeting a large run.

Limitations

Handle-based lookup. It does not resolve custom URLs that are not @handles.
Subscriber counts are what the channel page shows, not an analytics API.

Related Actors

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