# YouTube Channel Details Scraper (`data_direct/youtube-channel-scraper`) Actor

Get a YouTube channel's full profile by ID, URL, or handle

- **URL**: https://apify.com/data\_direct/youtube-channel-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Data Direct](https://apify.com/data_direct) (community)
- **Categories:** Videos, Social media
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $5.00 / 1,000 runs

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## YouTube Channel Details Scraper

Get detailed information about a YouTube channel by channel ID, URL, or name/handle. Returns the channel name, description, subscriber count, video count, exact total view count, country, creation date, verification status, external links, profile picture, and banner. Provide exactly one of id, url, or name.

### Features

- Real-time YouTube data — results are fetched live at run time, never cached or stale
- No login, cookies, or proxy configuration needed — just provide the input and run
- Each result is pushed as a separate dataset item, exportable as JSON, CSV, or Excel
- Fast: a typical run finishes in seconds

### Input

| Field | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `id` | string | no | YouTube channel ID (24 characters, starts with UC), e.g. UCXuqSBlHAE6Xw-yeJA0Tunw |
| `url` | string | no | Channel URL — use instead of id: youtube.com/channel/..., youtube.com/@handle, /c/ or /user/ forms |
| `name` | string | no | Channel name or @handle — use instead of id (e.g. @mkbhd or Linus Tech Tips) |

### Pricing

This Actor is billed **per run** — a flat **$0.005 per run**.

- One run returns all matching results for your input, and costs $0.005 — whether it comes back with one result or hundreds.
- You’re only charged when a run succeeds. Failed runs are free.

### Example output

```json
{
  "channel": {
    "channel_id": "UCXuqSBlHAE6Xw-yeJA0Tunw",
    "channel_name": "Linus Tech Tips",
    "description": "Linus Tech Tips is a passionate team of \"professionally curious\" experts in consumer technology and video production who aim to educate and entertain.",
    "subscriber_count": "16.9M",
    "video_count": "7.8K",
    "view_count": 9633982641,
    "country": "Canada",
    "creation_date": "2008-11-25",
    "verified": true,
    "has_business_email": true,
    "links": [
      {
        "name": "lttstore.com",
        "url": "https://lttstore.com"
      },
      {
        "name": "Twitter",
        "url": "https://twitter.com/LinusTech"
      }
    ],
    "profile_pic_url": "https://yt3.googleusercontent.com/.../photo.jpg",
    "banner": "https://yt3.googleusercontent.com/.../banner.jpg",
    "url": "https://youtube.com/channel/UCXuqSBlHAE6Xw-yeJA0Tunw"
  }
}
```

### About

Maintained by **Data Direct** — a small suite of fast, reliable YouTube and web-data scrapers. Each actor returns clean, structured results with no login, cookies, or proxy setup required. Have a question or a custom data need? Open an issue on this actor.

# Actor input Schema

## `id` (type: `string`):

YouTube channel ID (24 characters, starts with UC), e.g. UCXuqSBlHAE6Xw-yeJA0Tunw

## `url` (type: `string`):

Channel URL — use instead of id: youtube.com/channel/..., youtube.com/@handle, /c/ or /user/ forms

## `name` (type: `string`):

Channel name or @handle — use instead of id (e.g. @mkbhd or Linus Tech Tips)

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "id": "UCXuqSBlHAE6Xw-yeJA0Tunw"
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "id": "UCXuqSBlHAE6Xw-yeJA0Tunw"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("data_direct/youtube-channel-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "id": "UCXuqSBlHAE6Xw-yeJA0Tunw" }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("data_direct/youtube-channel-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "id": "UCXuqSBlHAE6Xw-yeJA0Tunw"
}' |
apify call data_direct/youtube-channel-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=data_direct/youtube-channel-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/Ce37qrfX67s7Hd9NN/builds/CB9itnHRUQl1WqMal/openapi.json