YouTube data

YouTube Channel Search Scraper (find channels by keyword)

Find YouTube channels by keyword: channel id, name, handle, subscriber count, video count, verified badge and thumbnail, ranked as YouTube ranks them. Up to 200 keywords per run. No email addresses or contact details. Only delivered channels are charged.

Run it on Apify Read the guide

$1.00per 1,000 · Channel listed

One channel delivered to the dataset. Keywords that fail or return nothing are never charged.

run it

ACTOR=steadydata~youtube-channel-search
URL="https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/$ACTOR/run-sync-get-dataset-items"

curl -X POST "$URL?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"queries": ["tech reviews"], "maxResultsPerQuery": 50, "language": "en"}'

# rows come straight back as JSON, one object per delivered row

Input

Field	Name	What it does
`queries` required	Keywords	Topics to find channels for, e.g. 'tech reviews' or 'yoga for beginners'. Up to 200 per run.
`maxResultsPerQuery`	Max channels per keyword	Stop after this many channels per keyword. This is your cost ceiling: one delivered channel is one charged event.
`language`	Language	Interface language, e.g. en, nl, de.
`country`	Country	ISO country code, e.g. US, NL, DE. Channel rankings differ per region.

What you get back

Field	Type
`query`	string, null
`rank`	integer, null
`channelId`	string, null
`channelUrl`	string, null
`name`	string, null
`handle`	string, null
`subscriberCount`	integer, null
`isVerified`	boolean, null
`thumbnailUrl`	string, null
`status`	string, null
`input`	string, null
`errorCode`	string, null
`error`	string, null