YouTube Search Channels Scraper

Search for YouTube channels by keyword. Returns channel name, description, subscriber count (formatted like "1.14K" or "6.44M"), thumbnail URL, and channel link. Supports fetching up to 10 pages in a single call.

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
query	string	yes	Search query (max 500 characters)
pages	integer	no	Number of pages to fetch and merge (1-10). Billed per page.

Pricing

This Actor is billed per page of results — $0.005 per page.

• Results come in pages. Use the pages input to choose how many pages to fetch (1–10); more pages means more results.
• You pay $0.005 for each page you fetch, so pages: 3 costs $0.015 and pages: 1 costs $0.005.
• You’re only charged when a run succeeds. Failed runs are free.

Example output

{
  "channels": [
    {
      "channel_id": "UCy0tKL1T7wFoYcxCe0xjN6Q",
      "description": "",
      "subscriber_count": "3.1M",
      "thumbnail": "https://yt3.googleusercontent.com/ytc/AIdro_lG8iUz4mpHBrzJSDYEKT0qe2XmhZUUUzhzcJbz9cE3rQ=s176-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj-mo",
      "title": "Technology Connections",
      "url": "https://youtube.com/channel/UCy0tKL1T7wFoYcxCe0xjN6Q"
    },
    {
      "channel_id": "UCXuqSBlHAE6Xw-yeJA0Tunw",
      "description": "Linus Tech Tips is a passionate team of \"professionally curious\" experts in consumer technology and video production who aim to ...",
      "subscriber_count": "16.8M",
      "thumbnail": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/gnvYLhXy8FAlPXZ2RTrkrgj-5kyt0vdE2FUGVOiKGdEZIa-wN5A-7nwZBlWJLzUMmoh1NWAU=s176-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj-mo",
      "title": "Linus Tech Tips",
      "url": "https://youtube.com/channel/UCXuqSBlHAE6Xw-yeJA0Tunw"
    },
    {
      "channel_id": "UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA",
      "description": "Primitive technology is a hobby where you build things in the wild completely from scratch using no modern tools or materials.",
      "subscriber_count": "11M",
      "thumbnail": "https://yt3.googleusercontent.com/ytc/AIdro_kltmVPbr5yKSJ8YaCv8ouXktPx-11IkO5dcmqN-dFmug=s176-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj-mo",
      "title": "Primitive Technology",
      "url": "https://youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA"
    },
    {
      "channel_id": "UC4tkNOvjOInOxxDkJ_jjuhA",
      "description": "\ud83c\udf10My website: https://paecher.tech\n\nYou can also join my Telegram group \ud83d\udc47\nt.me/PaecherTech\n\nWhenever I feel like it and have ...",
      "subscriber_count": "1.85K",
      "thumbnail": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/EIaOwmyhCn66QqMWOIQ_l3qtvuIZpXPpkt5Y3Ka-wG6CgJhYnSNI4vY2pE-nBnkX-Ld_Q8XK=s176-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj-mo",
 
  ... (truncated)

About

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