YouTube Channel Posts: community posts with text, images, polls

The community posts of YouTube channels, up to 100 channels per run: one row per post with text, links, images, attached video, poll choices and votes, like count and age, newest first, from the channel's Posts tab. Pay per post.

Why this scraper

• Only delivered results are charged. Inputs that fail come back as clear error records at no cost.
• The Posts tab over the slim mobile route, one request per page of posts, no browser. Measured on MKBHD and MrBeast: 50 posts in one run for a tenth of a cent, with 26 single images, 10 image sets, 7 attached videos, 3 polls and 4 text-only posts, every one with like count and age.
• Attachments taken apart: attachmentType says what the post carries (text, image, images, video, poll), imageUrls gives the full-size images, videoId the attached video, pollChoices and pollTotalVotes the poll. Outbound links are unwrapped from YouTube's redirect so links holds the real URLs.

Who this is for

Paste channels in channels (URL, @handle or channel id; up to 100 per run) and set maxPostsPerChannel (default 20, ceiling 500, newest first). Every row carries the channel id and name, the post's position, id and URL, its age, text, links, like count, attachment type and, depending on the attachment, image URLs, attached video or poll choices with the vote total.

Who this is not for

Posts show their age as YouTube prints it ("2 weeks ago"), not an exact timestamp; YouTube does not expose one on the Posts tab. Comment counts are not delivered: the mobile tab does not carry them. Members-only posts and posts of channels that hide the tab are not visible. Columns that depend on the attachment are empty by design on other posts: imageUrls only on image posts, videoId and videoTitle only on video posts, pollChoices and pollTotalVotes only on polls; links only when the text contains a link.

Input fields

Field	Type	Required or default	What it does
channels	list of text	required	One per row, up to 100: a channel URL, @handle or channel id (UC...).
maxPostsPerChannel	number	20	Cost ceiling per channel, newest first.

Input example

{
    "channels": [
        "https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd"
    ],
    "maxPostsPerChannel": 20
}

Output example

Field	Type	What it holds	Example
channelId	text	The channel id (UC...), stable where the channel name can change.	UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ
channelName	text	The channel that published the video.	Marques Brownlee
channelUrl	text	The channel page on YouTube.	https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ
position	number	The place of the row in the list that was read, counting from 1.	1
postId	text	The id of the community post.	UgkxX6gkDxQ0KRucvyG7NLui0LhjHp0CLlfZ
url	text	The post's own page on YouTube.	https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxX6gkDxQ0KRucvyG7NLui0Lhj...
publishedText	text	How long ago YouTube says the post appeared, for example "2 days ago".	2 years ago (edited)
text	text	The text of the post.	Alright, it's that time: https://vote.mkbhd.com Welcome t...
links	list	The links in the post, each with its label and target.	["https://vote.mkbhd.com/"]
likeCount	number	Likes on the post; empty when they are hidden.	12000
attachmentType	text	What hangs under the post: image, video, poll or nothing.	image
imageUrls	list	The images in the post, largest version first.	["https://yt3.ggpht.com/zy6PEg0QzlzFe8xfDxpAbe1mGV0pXgc-x...
videoId	text	The video the post points to, when it points to one.	as_kxJn4Xwc
videoTitle	text	The title of that linked video.	Can an iPad Control Our Camera Robot?
pollChoices	list	The poll options with their share of the votes, when the post is a poll.
pollTotalVotes	number	How many votes the poll has had.

Error codes: INVALID_CHANNEL, CHANNEL_NOT_FOUND, NO_POSTS, BLOCKED.

One delivered row looks like this:

{
  "channelId": "UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ",
  "channelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ",
  "channelName": "Marques Brownlee",
  "position": 1,
  "postId": "UgkxX6gkDxQ0KRucvyG7NLui0LhjHp0CLlfZ",
  "url": "https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxX6gkDxQ0KRucvyG7NLui0LhjHp0CLlfZ",
  "publishedText": "2 years ago (edited)",
  "text": "Alright, it's that time: https://vote.mkbhd.com\n\nWelcome to the Blind Smartphone Camera Test 2023! 20 smartphones. 3 categories. Scientific winners revealed (I'...",
  "links": [
    "https://vote.mkbhd.com/"
  ],
  "likeCount": 12000,
  "attachmentType": "image",
  "imageUrls": [
    "https://yt3.ggpht.com/zy6PEg0QzlzFe8xfDxpAbe1mGV0pXgc-xV1MvQ7rlf_EWjEj_YqN0Y2b7fiaOCdghICsMxy8tDGDaA=s1516-nd-v1"
  ],
  "videoId": null,
  "videoTitle": null,
  "pollChoices": [],
  "pollTotalVotes": null,
  "status": "ok"
}

Related actors from steadydata

• youtube-channel-videos: the videos of the same channel
• youtube-channel-details: subscriber and view statistics of the channel
• youtube-channel-live: the live and upcoming streams of the channel

Pricing

Pay per event: one post-fetched event per delivered result. No charge for inputs that fail, no separate platform-usage surcharge.

Free Apify plan: this actor delivers up to 25 rows per run for accounts on the Apify free plan, and then stops with a message. That limit is set by us, not by Apify. It exists so the actor keeps paying for itself for the people who do pay. Any paid Apify plan runs it at full size, billed per delivered row, with failed rows never charged.

Reviews: if this actor saves you time, a short review on this page is the one thing that helps most. Ratings are what other buyers look at first, and we have no other way to ask.

Use with AI agents

AI assistants such as Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor can run this actor through Apify's own MCP server. Ask for the actor steadydata/youtube-channel-posts by its full name, so the assistant does not pick a different one, and start from this minimal input:

{
  "channels": [
    "https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd"
  ]
}

The assistant can read the price per event from the Pricing section above before the first paid run. Failed input comes back as an error row, as described above.

FAQ

Do I get the comments under a post? No, only what the channel published: text, links, attachments, likes and age.

How far back does it go? As far as the Posts tab pages, newest first; maxPostsPerChannel caps the cost. A channel without posts comes back as one free NO_POSTS error row.

Are poll results included? The choices and the vote total as YouTube shows them; per-choice percentages are only shown to voters and are not available.

Can I use a handle? Yes: a channel URL, an @handle or a UC... channel id all work and resolve to the same channel id.

Which image size do I get? The largest thumbnail YouTube lists for the post, usually 1280 pixels wide.

Is personal data collected? Only what the channel itself published: post text, images, polls and counts. No commenter names or comment texts.

What do the fields mean? likeCount is YouTube's rounded figure (12K becomes 12000). url is the permanent post link on youtube.com/post/.

What happens when the source changes? Sources change from time to time; that is the nature of this work. The actor is monitored daily and fixed fast, and while it is broken you are not charged, because only delivered results cost anything.

Can I call it from my own code, like an API? Yes. Every run is available through the Apify API: start it with one HTTP request, then read the results as JSON, CSV or Excel from the dataset endpoint, or use the official Python and JavaScript clients. The input is the same JSON as in the input example above, so a scheduled script, a Make or Zapier step or an AI agent can call it without any changes.