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YouTube Channel Monitor — New Upload Tracker icon

Monitor One YouTube Creator for Every New Upload

Want every new video and Short from one creator the moment they post? This task returns a clean feed on a schedule to power fan alerts or self-monitoring.

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How it works

  1. 1
    Open it on Apify

    Hit Run on Apify — it opens the tool in the cloud, no install.

  2. 2
    Set the inputs

    Adjust channels, maxResultsPerChannel, onlyNewSinceLastRun (sensible defaults are pre-filled).

  3. 3
    Click Run

    The tool runs on Apify’s cloud and collects the data for you.

  4. 4
    Export the results

    Download as JSON, CSV or Excel, or pipe straight into your app, Google Sheets, or an AI agent.

Inputs

FieldWhat it doesType
channelsYouTube channels to monitor — any mix of channel URLs, @handles, or UC… IDs (e.g. @MrBeast, https://youtube.com/@veritasium, UCX6OQ3DkcsbYNE6H8uQQuVA).array
maxResultsPerChannelHow many of the channel's latest uploads to check each run.integer
onlyNewSinceLastRunRemember seen video IDs across runs and return only newly-found videos (turns this into an upload trigger).boolean
maxVideoAgeHoursSkip videos older than this many hours. 0 = no age limit.integer
minDurationSecondsSkip videos shorter than this. 0 = no limit.integer
maxDurationSecondsSkip videos longer than this. 0 = no limit.integer
shortsOnlyReturn only Shorts (≤185s).boolean
longFormOnlyReturn only long-form videos (>185s).boolean
youtubeApiKeyOptional. Without a key the actor uses YouTube public RSS feeds (no key needed, but no duration/Shorts data and only the last ~15 uploads per channel). Provide string

What you get

A structured dataset — each result includes fields like:

channelIdchannelTitlepublishedAttitleurlvideoId

Export every run as JSON, CSV or Excel, or send it to your app, a database, Google Sheets, or an AI agent.

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