# Apify Fast YouTube Channel Scraper

> Apify Fast YouTube Channel Scraper is a paid API for AI agents from apify-api-git-br-better-actor-pay-merit-systems.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Scrapes YouTube channel data including subscriber counts, channel info, videos, and metadata without API quota limits

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://apify-api-git-br-better-actor-pay-merit-systems.vercel.app/api/actors/streamers/youtube-channel-scraper/call
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/apify-fast-youtube-channel-scraper-e3f3c9f9
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_FSTIkAnAu6QQsnCfPPwxV

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability apify-fast-youtube-channel-scraper-e3f3c9f9 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you scrape the YouTube channel info for @MrBeast and @PewDiePie — I need their subscriber counts, total video uploads, and channel URLs?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need YouTube channel data without being constrained by YouTube Data API quotas or rate limits, especially for bulk channel lookups or when you lack a YouTube API key. Ideal for competitor research, influencer vetting, or aggregating channel stats at scale.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or non-existent YouTube channel URL returns empty results
- Private or terminated channels may return no data
- Payment failure (insufficient USDC balance) blocks execution
- Rate limiting or Apify actor queue delays may increase latency
- Malformed channel handle or ID causes actor input validation error

## How this service works

Start the "Fast YouTube Channel Scraper" Apify actor (streamers/youtube-channel-scraper). This alternative YouTube Data API has no limits or quotas. Use it to scrape one or multiple YouTube channels: channel info, URL, total number of subscribers, v…

## Output

Returns a signed token for polling the actor status and fetching results, which include channel name, URL, subscriber count, total video count, channel description, and other metadata for each requested YouTube channel.

## Example request

```json
{
 "input": {
  "startUrls": [
   {
    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/@TechLinked"
   }
  ],
  "maxResults": 3,
  "sortVideosBy": "NEWEST",
  "maxResultStreams": 1,
  "maxResultsShorts": 2
 }
}
```

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method",
    "bodyType",
    "body"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "body": {
     "type": "object",
     "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
     "properties": {
      "input": {
       "type": "object",
       "required": [
        "startUrls",
        "maxResults",
        "maxResultsShorts",
        "maxResultStreams"
       ],
       "properties": {
        "startUrls": {
         "type": "array",
         "items": {
          "type": "object",
          "required": [
           "url"
          ],
          "properties": {
           "url": {
            "type": "string",
            "format": "uri"
           },
           "method": {
            "type": "string"
           },
           "headers": {
            "type": "object",
            "propertyNames": {
             "type": "string"
            },
            "additionalProperties": {
             "type": "string"
            }
           },
           "payload": {
            "type": "string"
           },
           "userData": {
            "type": "object",
            "propertyNames": {
             "type": "string"
            },
            "additionalProperties": {}
           }
          },
          "additionalProperties": false
         },
         "description": "Enter a link to a channel . You can also import a CSV file or Google Sheet with a list of URLs."
        },
        "maxResults": {
         "type": "integer",
         "default": 0,
         "maximum": 999999,
         "minimum": 0,
         "description": "Limit the number of regular videos (not streams, not shorts) you want to get from one channel. If you use several urls on the input you will get this number for each channel."
        },
        "sortVideosBy": {
         "enum": [
          "NEWEST",
          "POPULAR",
          "OLDEST"
         ],
         "type": "string",
         "description": "Maps to the sorting buttons on the top of the channel's 'Videos', 'Shorts' and 'Live' pages."
        },
        "oldestPostDate": {
         "type": "string",
         "pattern": "^(\\d{4})-(0[1-9]|1[0-2])-(0[1-9]|[12]\\d|3[01])(T[0-2]\\d:[0-5]\\d(:[0-5]\\d)?(\\.\\d+)?Z?)?$|^(\\d+)\\s*(minute|hour|day|week|month|year)s?$",
         "description": "Only posts uploaded after or on this date will be scraped. Al
… (truncated)
```

## More

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