How to Scrape YouTube Channels - YouTube Channel Data Extractor Tutorial

[@Apify]

Try out Fast KZbin Channel Scraper on Apify Store 👉apify.it/3A35jK0

[@AfricanFlightStar]

That's fantastic! Thank you for explaining that. I am 68 years old, reasonably tech-savvy, but a complete newbie at this kind of thing, and at code-programming in general. But I have built dozens of websites (lately mainly with WordPress, but originally with hand-coded HTML) and I've done some relational database programming in the distant past (FileMaker Pro). I have a number of online business ideas that I want to create, am on a very limited budget (can't hire developers), and it's incredibly frustrating not to be able to create them myself. So I'm trying to figure out where to start and what no-code platforms to learn, and even THAT is not an easy task! I have a very specific project I want to create using data scraped from KZbin channels, in a particular subject niche. So can you please tell me - what fields/data-points we can scrape from YT channels? Ideally I would like to get - channel name, date established, total subscribers, total number of videos, the total views for all videos combined, and a list of all their videos (by name), with the upload date and number of views per video. Also, if it's possible, I would like to get the channel's total subscriber number per month over the last, say, 5 years, or from when the channel started if it's less than five years, so I can chart both their subscribers and views growth, over time (months or years). Is it possible to get all this data from KZbin by using your scraper? Or with your scraper for some of the data, and then also building another tool that will get the data from the KZbin API? (I've been looking at Retool to help do this, very steep learning curve for me!) Any help very much appreciated, thank you! Will be checking out Apify, looks awesome!

[@Apify]

Hey! We're happy to see you using Apify to kickstart your business 🥳 In regards to your question: I checked the output of Fast KZbin Channel Scraper, and it seems to include all the data points you mentioned in your comment. You can also schedule it regularly (every month for instance) and then compare the data and see month-over-month differences in numbers of subscribers etc. Our platform, however only aggregates the data, but we don't offer data processing tools, so I can't really help you with the next steps 😕 However, one tool that pops to mind is TubeBuddy, which will allow you to see a channel's growth over a certain time period - you should therefore gain access to "older" view/subscriber data, which would be hard to get otherwise 🙂 Hope I help and I wish you luck in your ventures!

[@HHBM2]

Can you scrape and get the transcripts with the videos

[@Apify]

Hi, you can scrape subtitles using KZbin Scraper: apify.com/streamers/youtube-scraper If you want to scrape a channel, simply input its link into the Direct URL field and turn on Scraping subtitles in the input 🙂 Hope I helped!

[@jzajzz]

I only want channel information .. can i set the videos to 0 , will it still give me the channel description etc.. ?

[@Apify]

Hi, yes! Setting the number of max videos to 0 will only give you channel information 🙂