Playboard YouTube Channel Ranking Scraper

Scrape YouTube channel rankings from Playboard.co — the only public source for SuperChat earnings estimates, subscriber growth velocity, and live-stream rankings that are not available from the official YouTube Data API.

What it does

Playboard aggregates ranking data across 7 ranking types, 16 content categories, and ~200 countries. Each ranking page shows the top 20 YouTube channels for that combination. This actor lets you select exactly which combinations to scrape.

Use cases

• Influencer research: Find the top gaming channels in Japan or the highest-grossing SuperChat streamers worldwide
• Market analysis: Compare YouTube channel growth trends across countries and categories
• SuperChat earnings: Access estimated SuperChat revenue data unavailable from the YouTube Data API
• Competitor monitoring: Track rank changes for channels in your niche

Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Description	Default
countries	array	Country slugs to scrape (e.g. worldwide, united-states, japan)	["worldwide"]
categories	array	Content categories (e.g. all, gaming, music, education)	["all"]
rankTypes	array	Ranking metric types (see options below)	["most-popular"]
maxItems	integer	Maximum number of channel records to return	Required

Rank type options

• most-popular — Most subscribed (main ranking)
• most-subscribed — Subscriber count ranking
• most-viewed — Total view count ranking
• most-superchatted — SuperChat earnings ranking
• most-growth — Fastest-growing channels
• most-decline — Fastest-declining channels
• most-watched — Most-watched live stream ranking

Category options

all, animals, comedy, education, entertainment, film, gaming, howto, music, news, nonprofits, science, sports, travel, vehicles, vlog

Country slugs

Use the country name in lowercase with hyphens (e.g. united-states, united-kingdom, south-korea). Use worldwide for global rankings.

Output format

Each record represents one channel on one ranking page:

{
  "rank": 1,
  "rank_type": "most-popular",
  "rank_category": "gaming",
  "country": "united-states",
  "ranking_url": "https://playboard.co/en/youtube-ranking/most-popular-gaming-channels-in-united-states-daily",
  "channel_name": "MrBeast Gaming",
  "channel_handle": "UCwHB4V1Mg0sAggFWuGmNBSg",
  "channel_url": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwHB4V1Mg0sAggFWuGmNBSg",
  "channel_playboard_url": "https://playboard.co/en/channel/UCwHB4V1Mg0sAggFWuGmNBSg",
  "subscribers_raw": "41,200,000",
  "views_raw": "2.1M",
  "videos_raw": "450",
  "scraped_at": "2026-06-01T21:00:00.000Z"
}

Note: subscribers_raw, views_raw, and videos_raw are returned as-displayed on Playboard (may include K/M/B abbreviations or currency symbols for SuperChat rankings).

Example: Scrape top gaming channels in 3 countries

{
  "countries": ["united-states", "japan", "south-korea"],
  "categories": ["gaming"],
  "rankTypes": ["most-popular", "most-growth"],
  "maxItems": 500
}

This produces up to 120 records (3 countries × 1 category × 2 rank types × 20 channels per page).

Example: SuperChat rankings worldwide

{
  "countries": ["worldwide"],
  "categories": ["all"],
  "rankTypes": ["most-superchatted"],
  "maxItems": 20
}