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YouTube Channel Scraper 📺 — All Videos, Views & Channel Stats (No Login, No API Key)

Scrape every video from any YouTube channel with full metadata — title, view count, duration, publish date, thumbnail and video URL — plus the channel's subscriber count, total video count, description and ID. This YouTube channel scraper works by @handle, channel URL, or channel ID and exports to JSON, CSV or Excel.

No YouTube login, no cookies, no Google API key, no quota. Pull a channel's entire back catalog — hundreds or thousands of videos — in a single run.

✅ No login · No API key · @handle / URL / ID supported · Videos, Shorts & Live · Whole catalog

Why use this YouTube channel scraper?

• The whole catalog, not page one. Auto-paginates to the very end of the channel's Videos tab.
• Videos, Shorts or Live. Pick exactly which channel tab to scrape.
• Rich per-video data. View count (as a real integer), duration, publish date, thumbnail and watch URL.
• Channel stats on every row. Subscriber count, total videos, description, handle and ID.
• Bulk channels. Pass a list of channels and scrape them all at once.
• No API quota. The official YouTube Data API burns quota and caps results — this has neither limit.

How to scrape a YouTube channel (step by step)

No coding required. Here's how to extract all videos from a YouTube channel:

1. Open the actor on Apify and click Try for free.
2. Add the channel(s) to the channels field — @handle (e.g. @MrBeast), a channel URL, or a UC… channel ID.
3. (Optional) Choose contentType (videos, shorts, live) and set maxVideos (use 0 for the entire channel).
4. Click Start.
5. Export the videos to CSV, Excel or JSON — or pull them through the Apify API.

Automating it? Trigger a run via the Apify API and schedule it daily to track a channel's new uploads automatically.

What data can you extract from a YouTube channel?

Use cases

• Competitor analysis — pull a rival channel's full upload history with views and dates to benchmark output and performance.
• Influencer vetting — assess a creator's catalog size, average views and posting cadence before a partnership.
• Content & video SEO research — analyze titles, durations and view distributions across a niche.
• Trend tracking — schedule it to monitor a set of channels' new uploads.
• Dataset building — assemble channel video catalogs for analytics, recommendation or AI pipelines.
• Feed downstream tools — collect videoIds here, then enrich with the Comments or Video Details scrapers.

Input

Example input

{
"channels":["@MrBeast","https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd","UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ"],
"contentType":"videos",
"maxVideos":0
}

Example output

{
"channelTitle":"MrBeast",
"channelSubscriberCount":489000000,
"videoId":"AaMdXZMvT3w",
"title":"Survive 30 Days On An Island With Your Ex, Win $250,000",
"url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaMdXZMvT3w",
"viewCount":62000000,
"duration":"39:09",
"publishedTime":"5 days ago",
"scrapedAt":"2026-05-22T07:30:00Z"
}

How it works

This YouTube channel video scraper resolves any @handle, custom URL or /channel/UC… to the channel's browse ID, reads the channel's internal data (the same the website renders), and paginates the video grid to the end. It parses YouTube's current lockupViewModel video format — resilient to the layout migration that broke many older scrapers — and fetches a fresh access key per run with retries.

Frequently asked questions

Do I need a YouTube API key to scrape a channel? No — no key, no login, and none of the YouTube Data API's quota limits.

Can it scrape a channel's entire video history? Yes. Set maxVideos: 0 for the whole back catalog.

How do I find a channel ID? You don't need to — just paste the @handle or channel URL and the actor resolves it.

Can I scrape YouTube Shorts or live streams? Yes — set contentType to shorts or live.

Can I scrape multiple channels at once? Yes — add as many channels as you like to the channels list.

Can I scrape a channel without coding? Yes — paste the channel, click Start, download CSV/Excel/JSON. No code.

Is scraping a YouTube channel legal? The actor collects only public channel and video data. Use it in line with YouTube's Terms and applicable laws.

Why are views shown as 62M somewhere and a number here? YouTube abbreviates views in listings; the actor parses them to an integer in viewCount and keeps the original text in viewCountText.

Is this a YouTube Data API alternative?

Yes. It's a no-quota YouTube Data API alternative — you scrape a channel's full video list without an API key, OAuth or daily quota caps.

How do I export YouTube channel videos to CSV or JSON?

Run the actor, then download the results as CSV, Excel or JSON from the dataset — a one-click YouTube channel video data export with no spreadsheet copy-paste.

Can I scrape a YouTube channel without login or an API key?

Yes. This scrape YouTube channel without login workflow needs no cookies, no Google account and no API key — just paste an @handle, URL or channel ID.

Limits & notes

• Publish dates are relative ("5 days ago"); views are abbreviated by YouTube and parsed to integers.
• Shorts expose views but usually no duration.
• For exact upload timestamps or per-video like counts, pair with the YouTube Video Details Scraper.

The complete YouTube scraping toolkit

• YouTube Comments Scraper — all comments for these videos
• YouTube Video Details Scraper — exact views, likes & tags
• YouTube Search Scraper — find channels & videos by keyword
• YouTube Influencer Discovery — creators, engagement & emails

💰 Pricing

Pay-per-result — you only pay for the videos you actually get. No proxy or YouTube API costs.

🆘 Support

Need exact upload timestamps, per-video like counts, or the channel's playlists too? Open an issue on the actor's page.

📝 Changelog

2026-06-15

• Reliability pass: re-verified end-to-end on live data with real-world inputs. Routine maintenance build.

2026-06-07

• Docs: added coverage for using this as a YouTube Data API alternative, exporting channel video data to CSV/JSON, and scraping a channel without login or API key.

2026-06-05

• 🛡️ Reliability fix: results are no longer dropped by strict output validation — runs now complete cleanly even at high volume (thousands of results).
• ⚡ Stability & performance hardening; fresh rebuild.

2026-06-04

• Verified live & refreshed build — reliability/maintenance pass.