YouTube Channel scraper

Extract and compare data from multiple YouTube channels with Google Sheets.

YouTube channels provide businesses with a dynamic platform to engage with their target audience, showcase their expertise, and enhance their online presence.

Our no-code scraping solution empowers content creators, marketers, business owners, researchers, analysts, and advertisers to collect and analyze channel data from Google Sheets. Save valuable time and improve the way you identify trends, track performance, optimize content, and analyze your audience and your competitors!

Using the ImportFromWeb add-on and the function it adds to Google Sheets, you can extract the main data and metrics from a list of YouTube channels!

What you get?

With =IMPORTFROMWEB(), you extract the following YouTube Channel data points.

channel title
channel description
number of videos
number of subscribers
number of total views
…

See all available YouTube Channel data points

Step by step

Start with a template

First of all, make sure you have installed the ImportFromWeb add-on from the Google Workspace Marketplace.

Then, just follow these easy steps:

Open a new Google Sheets and activate ImportFromWeb

To activate the add-on, go to Extensions > ImportFromWeb > Activate add-on.

Input the channel URLs

ImportFromWeb requires 2 parameters: a URL and one or more data selectors.

Enter a list of YouTube Channel URLs in the first column using the following format: https://www.youtube.com/@espn/about

Input the channel selectors

Data selectors describe the specific content you want to import from the YouTube Channels.

Pick the selectors you are interested in from our YouTube Channel selectors glossary and add them to your spreadsheet. For example, you may be interested in the title, number_videos, number_subscribers, and views.

This is what your spreadsheet should look like: