YouTube channel scraper for video lists and channel analytics
Extract every video from any YouTube channel - titles, publish dates, view counts, durations, thumbnails, and direct links - to audit content strategies, track publishing patterns, and analyze channel performance.
YouTube channels are content engines, with creators and brands publishing videos on schedules that directly influence audience growth and engagement. Each channel page lists every public video with its title, thumbnail, view count, publish date, and duration. For competitive analysis, this data reveals a channel's content strategy - how often they publish, what topics drive the most views, which video lengths perform best, and how engagement trends shift over time.
Marketing teams study competitor channels to benchmark their own video strategies. Media buyers evaluate channel performance before sponsorship deals. Researchers track content output across channels for trend analysis.
Agency teams audit potential influencer partners by reviewing their complete video catalog. Manually scrolling through a channel's video feed and recording data is absurdly tedious, especially for channels with hundreds or thousands of uploads. This robot extracts every video from a YouTube channel into a structured dataset ready for analysis.
What YouTube channel scraping delivers:
✓ Complete video inventory: Extract every public video on a channel in one pass. Get the full catalog - not just the most recent uploads - for thorough content auditing.
✓ Performance benchmarking: View counts per video reveal what content resonates. Extract to identify a channel's hits and misses, informing your own content strategy.
✓ Publishing cadence analysis: Publish dates show how frequently a channel uploads. Extract to study competitor posting schedules and identify gaps you can fill.
✓ Content format insights: Video durations indicate content format strategy - short-form, long-form, or mixed. Extract to understand what lengths perform best in your niche.
Position
Title
Views
Date
Duration
#1
How to Master YouTube SEO in 2024
45,230
2024-01-15
12:34
#2
Beginner's Guide to Content Creation
38,905
2024-01-10
18:45
#3
YouTube Algorithm Explained
52,167
2024-01-05
15:22
#4
5 Video Ideas That Get Views
29,443
2023-12-28
9:18
#5
Channel Growth Strategy Q&A
31,876
2023-12-20
22:07
How to scrape a YouTube channel in 4 steps
No YouTube account or API key needed. The robot reads public channel pages and extracts every video's data.
A free Browse AI account (no credit card required).
A YouTube channel URL (the main channel page or videos tab).
1
Sign up for free
Create your Browse AI account in under a minute. No credit card required. You will find this prebuilt robot in the robot library ready to use.
2
Navigate to a YouTube channel and copy the URL
Go to the YouTube channel you want to scrape. You can use the main channel page or navigate directly to the Videos tab. Copy the URL from the address bar.
3
Run the robot
Click run. The robot scrolls through the channel's video feed and extracts video position, titles, publish dates, view counts, durations, thumbnail URLs, and direct video links for every video.
4
Connect integrations or export your data
Your channel data is structured and ready. Export to Google Sheets for content auditing, sync to a BI tool for trend visualization, or analyze publishing patterns and engagement metrics to reverse-engineer successful content strategies.
Channel-level video data drives content strategy and competitive intelligence:
Competitive content analysis: Extract a competitor's full video catalog. Identify their top-performing topics, optimal video lengths, and publishing patterns to inform your own strategy.
Influencer vetting: Considering a sponsorship deal? Extract the channel's video data to verify consistent publishing, genuine view counts, and audience engagement trends.
Content gap identification: Compare video topics across multiple channels in your niche. Find subjects that your competitors cover but you don't - or that nobody covers yet.
Trend tracking: Schedule regular extractions of channels in your industry. Monitor what new topics are emerging and which evergreen content continues to perform.
Portfolio monitoring: Manage multiple YouTube channels? Extract all of them into a single dashboard for cross-channel performance comparison.
Research data collection: Studying content creation patterns? Extract video data from channels in a specific category for academic or market research.
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Content strategists
Audit competitor channels for content patterns. Extract video data to identify winning topics, formats, and publishing cadences.
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Marketing teams
Evaluate influencer channels before partnerships. Extract complete video histories to assess genuine performance and consistency.
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Video producers
Benchmark your channel against competitors. Extract view counts and engagement to understand where you stand in your category.
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Researchers
Collect YouTube content data for academic or market studies. Extract structured datasets from any channel for analysis.
What data does this YouTube channel scraper extract?
Each video entry from the channel provides:
Field
What it contains
Position
The ranking position of the video in the channel's feed.
Title
The published title of each video.
Views
Total views at time of extraction.
Date
When the video was uploaded.
Image
Link to the video thumbnail image.
Duration
Video length.
Link
The URL to watch the video on YouTube.
Complete channel analytics structured for spreadsheets, dashboards, and content analysis workflows.
Frequently asked questions
Does this extract from private or unlisted videos?
No. The robot only extracts publicly visible videos. Private and unlisted videos don't appear on the channel's public page.
How many videos can it extract from a single channel?
The robot can extract the complete video catalog. For channels with thousands of videos, the extraction may take longer but will capture the full list.
Can I extract data from YouTube Shorts on a channel?
YouTube Shorts appear on the channel page and are extracted alongside regular videos. Duration fields will show their shorter lengths.
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