YouTube Channel Videos Scraper

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List every video on a YouTube channel — title, duration, approximate upload date, thumbnail, and direct video URL — and paginate across runs to fetch the full back catalog.

What you get

For every video on the channel, one dataset row with:

• videoId, url — canonical YouTube video ID and watch URL
• title — video title
• durationSeconds — length in seconds (null for live streams)
• uploadDate — approximate YYYY-MM-DD upload date (YouTube only exposes relative dates like "3 weeks ago" in channel listings, so this is rounded to the day)
• thumbnailUrl — highest-resolution thumbnail URL
• isLive — true if currently live or upcoming, false if recorded, null if unknown
• isShort — true for Shorts (vertical short videos under 60s or sourced from the Shorts tab)
• channelId, channelName, channelUrl — canonical channel identity
• listIndex — 1-based position in the channel's video list (newest = 1)

Use cases

• Content research — analyze a competitor's full upload history, posting cadence, and view trajectories
• Influencer vetting — verify channel size, output volume, and content mix before brand deals
• Trend analysis — pull a channel's catalog into a spreadsheet to spot top-performing topics
• Backlog mirroring — build an index of every video on a channel for archival or search
• SEO research — extract titles and view counts to study what topics rank on YouTube

How to use

1. Paste a channel URL or handle into YouTube Channel URL — @mkbhd, https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd, /c/, /user/, or /channel/UC... formats all work
2. Pick a Tab — Videos (default), Shorts, or Live streams
3. Set Max Items (default 500) — how many videos to fetch in this run; set 0 for unlimited (capped at 5000 per run as a safety net)
4. Leave Page ID blank on the first run
5. Run the actor — videos appear in the Dataset tab in newest-first order
6. To fetch the next page, open the Key-value store tab → copy the NEXT_PAGE_ID value → paste it into Page ID on your next run. If NEXT_PAGE_ID is null, you've fetched the entire channel.

Output format

Each dataset record:

{
"videoId":"abc123XYZ",
"url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abc123XYZ",
"title":"Reviewing the new flagship phone",
"durationSeconds":743,
"uploadDate":"2025-09-14",
"thumbnailUrl":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/abc123XYZ/maxresdefault.jpg",
"isLive":false,
"isShort":false,
"channelId":"UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ",
"channelName":"Marques Brownlee",
"channelUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd",
"listIndex":1
}

Notes & limits

• One channel per run. For multiple channels, run the actor once per channel (each gets its own dataset and cursor).
• Newest-first order. Videos are listed in YouTube's default channel order — most recent uploads first.
• View, like, and comment counts are not included — YouTube does not expose those in channel listings, and fetching them would require one extra request per video (impractically slow at channel scale). For per-video deep metadata, run the YouTube Video Metadata Scraper on the URLs from this dataset.
• Shorts and Live streams have separate tabs — set the Tab input to fetch them. A channel's Videos tab does not include Shorts or past live streams.
• Pagination is index-based. NEXT_PAGE_ID is the position in the channel's listing (e.g. 501 after fetching the first 500). YouTube channels can have thousands of videos — chain runs to fetch them all.
• Wall-clock safety: the actor stops ~60s before the platform timeout and writes NEXT_PAGE_ID so progress is never lost on long runs.

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Part of a complete YouTube toolkit — explore the rest of the suite:

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• YouTube Email Scraper — Bulk-extract contact emails from channels
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• YouTube MCP Server — All YouTube tools for AI agents via MCP