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One per line. Keyword search is not supported — every entry must resolve to a channel.", "default": [ "https://www.youtube.com/@MKBHD" ], "items": { "type": "string" } }, "scrapePlaylists": { "title": "📚 Playlists tab", "type": "boolean", "description": "Emit one playlist row per playlist on the channel's Playlists tab: playlist id, playlist URL, title, item-count badge and cover image. Channels without a Playlists tab return no playlist rows.", "default": true }, "scrapePodcasts": { "title": "🎙️ Podcasts tab", "type": "boolean", "description": "Podcast collections are playlists under the hood but live on their own tab. They arrive as playlist rows labelled collectionType = podcast. Skipped automatically when the channel has no Podcasts tab.", "default": true }, "maxPlaylists": { "title": "🔢 Series per channel", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 200, "type": "integer", "description": "Applied to the Playlists tab and to the Podcasts tab separately. YouTube serves 30 collections per request and this Actor pages beyond that (measured: 65 playlists + 1 podcast = 66 unique rows from a 3-page tab).", "default": 20 }, "playlistDetails": { "title": "🗂️ Open each series for last-updated, visibility & lifetime views", "type": "boolean", "description": "Costs one extra request per playlist and fills lastUpdatedText, visibility (public/unlisted), totalViewsText plus the exact totalViews, videoCount and ownerName. The Playlists tab itself carries none of those.", "default": true }, "expandPlaylistVideos": { "title": "📂 List the videos inside each series (child rows)", "type": "boolean", "description": "Emits one playlistVideo row per video in each playlist (isChild = true, parentId = the playlist id) with position, duration, views text and publish age. Reuses the detail request, then pages 100 videos at a time.", "default": false }, "maxVideosPerPlaylist": { "title": "🎞️ Videos per series", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 500, "type": "integer", "description": "Own cap, independent of the per-tab cap below. YouTube returns 100 playlist videos per request.", "default": 50 }, "scrapeChannelInfo": { "title": "🏠 Channel profile & About", "type": "boolean", "description": "Emit one channel row per channel: description, join date, country, subscriber text, lifetime view count, video count, avatar, banner, external links and verification badge.", "default": true }, "scrapeVideos": { "title": "🎬 Long-form videos", "type": "boolean", "description": "Emit one video row per upload from the Videos tab.", "default": true }, "scrapeShorts": { "title": "📱 Shorts", "type": "boolean", "description": "Emit one short row per Short. Channels without a Shorts tab return no Shorts rows.", "default": true }, "scrapeLiveStreams": { "title": "🔴 Live & past streams", "type": "boolean", "description": "Emit one livestream row per item on the Live tab. Channels without a Live tab return no livestream rows — YouTube silently serves the Home tab there, and this Actor detects that instead of mislabelling home videos as streams.", "default": true }, "scrapePosts": { "title": "💬 Community posts", "type": "boolean", "description": "Emit one post row per community post, including image, poll and video attachments.", "default": true }, "maxResults": { "title": "🔢 Items per section, per channel", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 1000, "type": "integer", "description": "Upper limit for each enabled section (videos, Shorts, live streams, posts) on each channel. Every video-type item costs one extra request for its exact view/like count, so keep this small for quick runs. 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