YouTube Channel Profile & Videos Scraper

YouTube Channel Profile & Videos Scraper: Complete Channel Intelligence & Full Video Catalog Extraction

YouTube Channel Profile & Videos Scraper is a high-speed professional automation tool that extracts complete creator profiles and entire video catalogs from any YouTube channel—with zero API keys, no Google Cloud setup, and no quota restrictions.

The unlimited, enterprise-grade alternative to expensive paid tools and heavily restricted official APIs. Extract comprehensive channel statistics, verified status, high-resolution artwork, and all uploaded videos, Shorts, and Live streams into clean spreadsheets, visual cards, or downloadable Excel, CSV, and JSON formats.

📑 Quick Navigation Table of Contents

• ⚡ Why Choose This Scraper Over the Official API?
• 🎯 Who Is This For? (Popular Use Cases)
• 🚀 Top Features & What Data You Get
• ⚙️ How to Configure Your Job (Step-by-Step)
• 📥 Supported Link & Channel Formats
• 📋 Complete Data Fields You Can Extract
• 💼 Powerful Business & Creator Workflows
• 💡 Real Production Data Example
• 🤝 Works Great With Companion Tools
• ❓ Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

⚡ Why Choose This Scraper Over the Official API?

🎯 Who Is This For? (Popular Use Cases)

• Content Creators & YouTubers: Benchmark direct competitors, discover their all-time most popular videos, study title structures, and find inspiration from early channel beginnings.
• Influencer Marketing & Talent Agencies: Vet creators before brand sponsorships. Audit true subscriber numbers, lifetime total views, historical upload frequency, and audience engagement consistency.
• Brand Managers & E-Commerce Sellers: Discover trending micro-influencers and creators in your niche. Extract social links (Instagram, Twitter, Discord, TikTok) directly from channel profiles for automated outreach.
• Digital Marketers & SEO Strategists: Analyze competitor video libraries, extract channel keywords and topic tags, and optimize your own content strategy based on proven market demand.
• Data Analysts & Academic Researchers: Collect historical video catalog datasets across thousands of creators for media consumption studies, cultural research, and audience behavior analytics.

🚀 Top Features & What Data You Get

1. Complete Channel Profile & Dossier

Get an exhaustive profile of any creator in a single click:

• Display Name & Handle: Clean channel display title and canonical @handle.
• Verified Badges: Verified checkmarks and Official Artist badges.
• Audience Metrics: Exact subscriber count and lifetime total view count across all channel uploads.
• Channel Biography & Details: Uncapped description, channel creation / joined date, and country location.
• External Links & Socials: Connected websites, merchandise stores, Twitter/X, Instagram, Discord, and TikTok links.
• Ultra-HD Imagery: Automatically upgraded 800x800 square creator portraits and 2560px 4K TV banner artwork.

2. Full Catalog Auto-Pagination

Never get stuck on page 1 again. The scraper automatically follows pagination tokens to harvest tens, hundreds, or thousands of uploads—or set the limit to 0 to pull the creator's entire back catalog from their first upload to today.

3. Dedicated Tab Harvesting (Videos, Shorts & Live)

Tailor your extraction to the exact content format you need:

• Long-Form Videos (videos): Standard horizontal video uploads with runtimes, thumbnails, and views.
• YouTube Shorts (shorts): Vertical short-form clips, including expanded 3-minute Shorts.
• Live Streams (live): Active broadcasts, upcoming scheduled premieres, and concluded live stream archives.
• All Content Combined (all): Complete catalog aggregation across all formats.

4. Sort Order Flexibility (Latest, Popular & Oldest)

Analyze channels from any angle using YouTube's native sort chips:

• Latest: Newest uploads first (monitor current content strategy).
• Popular: Most viewed uploads of all time (uncover viral video formulas).
• Oldest: Earliest uploads first (explore how top creators started).

5. Single-Row Attached Metadata Architecture

Every single video row comes with complete channel profile statistics attached. This means you can drop your exported CSV or Excel file straight into Google Sheets, Tableau, or Microsoft Power BI and immediately filter, pivot, or group by channel without complex joins.

⚙️ How to Configure Your Job (Step-by-Step)

Setting up a scrape takes less than 30 seconds:

1. Enter Channel(s): Paste one or multiple YouTube channel handles, URLs, or channel IDs into the input box (one per line).
2. Select Content Type: Choose whether you want standard videos, vertical shorts, live streams, or all.
3. Choose Sort Order: Pick latest, popular, or oldest.
4. Set Video Limit: Specify how many videos to collect per channel (or enter 0 for the entire catalog).
5. Run & Download: Click "Start Scrape" to watch live results appear in real-time, then download your dataset in Excel, CSV, or JSON.

Configuration Settings Reference

📥 Supported Link & Channel Formats

The scraper automatically recognizes and normalizes all YouTube channel identifier formats:

• Creator Handles: @MrBeast, @mkbhd, @Veritasium
• Clean Profile URLs: https://www.youtube.com/@MrBeast
• Sub-Tab URLs: https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd/videos, https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd/shorts
• Canonical Channel IDs: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX6OQ3DkcsbYNE6H8uQQuVA or bare UCX6OQ3DkcsbYNE6H8uQQuVA
• Legacy Custom / Vanity URLs: https://www.youtube.com/c/Veritasium, https://www.youtube.com/user/pewdiepie
• International Unicode Handles: Handles in 75 languages including Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Devanagari, and Cyrillic (e.g. @日本語).

📋 Complete Data Fields You Can Extract

Every exported record is a rich, flat row containing both video-level data and attached channel intelligence:

Video Metadata Fields

Attached Channel Profile Fields

💼 Powerful Business & Creator Workflows

1. Competitor Video Benchmarking

Enter 5 to 10 top creators in your market, set maxVideos: 50 and sortBy: latest. Export to Excel to analyze upload frequency, average video duration, thumbnail styles, and which video topics generate the highest view velocity within the first week of publication.

2. Influencer Marketing Vetting & Outreach

Before committing marketing budget to creator sponsorships, scrape their channel with sortBy: popular. Check lifetime views, verified badges, joined date, and social links. Use the extracted Instagram, Twitter, and website URLs for direct agency outreach.

3. Viral Shorts Formula Discovery

Set contentType: shorts and sortBy: popular on leading creators in your niche. Identify the top 20 most viewed vertical clips to study visual hooks, pacing, and title patterns that drive viral reach.

4. Complete Channel Archival & Backup

Migrating to a new video platform or building an internal media database? Set maxVideos: 0 (entire catalog) to generate a complete inventory of every video title, watch URL, thumbnail, duration, and publish date across the channel's entire history.

💡 Real Production Data Example

Here is a sample of the structured nested data extracted in default grouped mode (groupByChannel: true) from tech creator Marques Brownlee (@mkbhd):

{
  "channel_id": "UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ",
  "channel_title": "Marques Brownlee",
  "channel_handle": "@mkbhd",
  "channel_url": "https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd",
  "channel_avatar": "https://yt3.googleusercontent.com/qu4TmIaYUlS41-dJ9gZ7DUR3nilvmB5_11i6OKSdvNnBNiyOusZP1bMN6ICnuxtjFBb6ioKgRQ=s800-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj",
  "channel_banner": "https://yt3.googleusercontent.com/zi_48HwHU4s0Hnb6tZuvRzTfCPHrLEnrtIMDLzMauDEyDmURh9JZ4wrNd3lKr7m9uVnT4YjYKw=w2560-fcrop64=1,00005a57ffffa5a8-k-c0xffffffff-no-nd-rj",
  "channel_subscribers": 21400000,
  "channel_subscribers_formatted": "21.4M subscribers",
  "channel_video_count": 1800,
  "channel_video_count_formatted": "1.8K videos",
  "channel_total_views": 5824488354,
  "channel_total_views_formatted": "5,824,488,354 views",
  "channel_description": "MKBHD: Quality Tech Videos | YouTuber | Geek | Consumer Electronics | Tech Head | Internet Personality!\n\nbusiness@MKBHD.com\n\nNYC",
  "channel_tagline": "MKBHD: Quality Tech Videos | YouTuber | Geek | Consumer Electronics | Tech Head | Internet Personality!",
  "channel_country": "United States",
  "channel_joined_date": "Joined Mar 21, 2008",
  "channel_rss_url": "https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ",
  "channel_links": [
    { "title": "Twitter", "url": "https://twitter.com/MKBHD" },
    { "title": "Instagram", "url": "https://instagram.com/MKBHD" },
    { "title": "The Studio", "url": "https://youtube.com/c/TheStudio" },
    { "title": "Reddit", "url": "https://reddit.com/r/MKBHD" },
    { "title": "Discord", "url": "https://discord.gg/MKBHD" }
  ],
  "channel_keywords": ["MKBHD", "MarquesBrownlee", "Marques", "Brownlee"],
  "is_channel_verified": true,
  "is_channel_artist": false,
  "is_channel_family_safe": true,
  "has_business_email": true,
  "available_tabs": ["home", "videos", "shorts", "live", "shows", "playlists", "posts", "store"],
  "content_type": "videos",
  "sort_by": "latest",
  "scraped_at": "2026-10-25T12:00:00.000Z",
  "videos_count": 1,
  "videos": [
    {
      "video_id": "ESABTN4VtrA",
      "title": "iPhone Duo Review: First Generation Fun!",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESABTN4VtrA",
      "short_url": "https://youtu.be/ESABTN4VtrA",
      "view_count": 11000000,
      "view_count_formatted": "11M views",
      "duration": "29:05",
      "duration_seconds": 1745,
      "published_time": "3 days ago",
      "published_date": "2026-10-21T12:00:52+00:00",
      "thumbnail": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ESABTN4VtrA/hq720.jpg",
      "thumbnails": [{ "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ESABTN4VtrA/hq720.jpg", "width": 720, "height": 404 }],
      "description_snippet": "What it's actually like to use the first folding iPhone - Duo\n\nDon’t miss Ridge’s friends and family sale at https://ridge.com/MKBHD\nProtect your iPhone Duo at https://dbrand.com/duo \n\nMKBHD Merch: http://shop.MKBHD.com\n\nPlaylist of MKBHD Intro music: https://goo.gl/B3AWV5\nPhone provided by Apple fo",
      "is_short": false,
      "is_live": false,
      "is_upcoming": false,
      "is_members_only": false,
      "badges": []
    }
  ],
  "status": "ok",
  "error": null
}

(Note: When groupByChannel: false is selected, each video is instead output as a standalone flat record with attached channel metrics.)

🤝 Works Great With Companion Tools

Pair this scraper with other BrowserMesh tools for end-to-end intelligence:

• YouTube Video Details Scraper (youtube-video-details-scraper): Feed extracted video links into this tool to capture exact unrounded like counts, comments, chapters, and the most-replayed audience retention heatmap.
• YouTube Transcript Scraper (youtube-transcript-scraper): Extract full spoken transcripts and captions with timestamps across all channel videos for AI summarization and search indexing.
• Website Social Links Extractor (website-social-links-extractor): Extract email addresses, social media profiles, and company contact details from creator websites found in channel_links.
• Website Meta Tag Extractor (website-meta-tag-extractor): Verify OpenGraph preview images and meta tags for creator portfolios and merchandise stores.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Do I need a YouTube API key or Google Cloud account to use this?

No. You do not need an API key, Google Cloud console setup, or billing account. The scraper works out of the box with zero configuration.

How many videos can I extract per channel?

You can extract anywhere from 1 video up to several thousand uploads. By setting the maxVideos setting to 0 or -1, the scraper will automatically paginate until it extracts the creator's entire back catalog.

Can I scrape multiple channels at the same time?

Yes. Simply paste multiple channel handles or URLs separated by newlines into the channel input box. The tool processes each channel sequentially, attaching creator statistics to every row.

How do I sort videos by most popular or oldest?

Use the Sort Order dropdown:

• Select Popular to retrieve the channel's most viewed videos of all time.
• Select Oldest to see the creator's earliest channel uploads.
• Select Latest to see the most recently uploaded content.

Can I download YouTube Shorts and Live Streams?

Yes. Select shorts from the Content Type dropdown to extract vertical short-form videos (including 3-minute Shorts), or select live to collect active broadcasts and past live streams.

What happens if a channel has hidden their subscriber count?

If a creator has disabled public subscriber display in YouTube Studio, the scraper safely populates channel_subscribers as null while preserving all other channel metrics, view counts, and video records.

What export formats are supported?

Once extraction completes, you can download your dataset instantly in Microsoft Excel (.xlsx), CSV, or JSON format, or inspect it visually in the BrowserMesh Cards View and Data Inspector.

Are channel avatar and banner images high resolution?

Yes. The scraper automatically upgrades profile picture URLs to ultra-sharp 800x800 pixel square portraits and banner art to maximum 2560px 4K resolution images suitable for high-DPI displays.

Does this scraper extract business contact emails?

Yes. When a creator includes an email address in their channel description, links section, or business inquiry section, the scraper automatically detects and flags has_business_email: true and includes the contact link in channel_links.

Can I toggle between nested channel records and flat video rows?

Yes. Use the Group Output by Channel setting (groupByChannel). When enabled (default), each record represents a complete channel profile containing an embedded list of its videos. When disabled, the scraper outputs individual flat rows per video with all channel profile metrics attached to every row for easy spreadsheet analysis.