Export a YouTube Channel's Full Video List to CSV
- Outputs standards-clean UTF-8 CSV with four columns: Title, Video URL, Video ID, Published date
- Opens directly in Excel, Google Sheets, Numbers, Airtable, or any analytics tool
- Up to 5,000 videos per channel — enough for almost every upload history
- No trial, no watermark, no row cap — the CSV has everything the tool found
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YouTube doesn't give channel owners a "download my videos as a spreadsheet" button, and it doesn't give researchers an export for competitor channels either. The Channel Video Links Extractor fills the gap: paste any channel URL, click a button, download a CSV. The file is clean enough to paste directly into Sheets, VLOOKUP against another list, or feed to an analytics pipeline. Here's what's in it and how teams typically use it.
The CSV Schema
Four columns, all required, no empty cells:
Title,Video URL,Video ID,Published "How I Built a $1M Newsletter",https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abc123,abc123,2026-03-14T09:00:00Z "Why I Quit My Job",https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=def456,def456,2026-02-28T17:30:00Z
Titles are properly escaped when they contain commas or quotes — you won't hit the "extra column appears mid-row" bug that breaks half the scrapers out there. Published dates are ISO 8601 UTC, so sorting and date math work correctly in any spreadsheet or database.
Opening in Excel, Sheets, or Numbers
The exported CSV is just a text file — every spreadsheet app opens it directly:
- Excel: double-click the file, or File → Open. If titles contain emoji or non-Latin characters, use Data → From Text/CSV to set encoding to UTF-8 explicitly.
- Google Sheets: File → Import → Upload → choose file → "Replace current sheet." UTF-8 is the default, so emoji and multilingual titles work out of the box.
- Numbers (Mac): drag the file onto the Numbers icon or File → Open. Numbers handles CSVs directly.
- Airtable / Notion DB: import as CSV, map the four columns to fields, set "Published" as a date field.
Common Analyses the CSV Enables
Once the data is in a spreadsheet, most useful research is a formula or pivot away:
- Upload cadence: group by month (
=TEXT(D2,"yyyy-mm")) and count — you'll see when the channel went from weekly to daily, or when it stopped for three months. - Title pattern analysis: count titles containing "How to", "$", emoji, or a competitor's name. Often reveals the channel's formula.
- Topic shifts: sort by date ascending, scan the earliest 30 titles vs. the latest 30. Niche pivots show up instantly.
- Content audit (for your own channel): identify videos that need refreshed thumbnails, outdated titles, or new descriptions. See our description keyword density guide for the next step.
Joining the CSV With Other Data
The Video ID column is the useful one for joining. Every YouTube data source — the official API, social listening tools, analytics exports — uses the 11-character video ID as its primary key.
Common joins:
- Your own analytics export: YouTube Studio exports include video ID. VLOOKUP the URL list against your analytics to see which videos drove the most watch time, subscribers, or revenue.
- Social listening data: tools like Brand24 and Mention include the video URL on posts that share it. Match video IDs to count external shares per video.
- SEO tools: some rank trackers accept a list of video URLs — paste the Video URL column to batch-monitor ranking for your own uploads.
Export Any YouTube Channel to CSV Free
Four clean columns — Title, URL, Video ID, Published. Opens in Excel, Sheets, and Airtable with zero friction.
Open YouTube Channel Video Links ExtractorFrequently Asked Questions
Is there a row limit on the CSV?
Whatever the tool extracts is what you get — up to 5,000 rows for one channel. No free-tier cap, no "upgrade to export more" prompt.
Does the CSV open in Excel without encoding errors?
Yes, for any channel using standard characters. If a channel has titles with emoji or non-Latin scripts and Excel shows garbled text, use Data → From Text/CSV and select UTF-8 explicitly.
Can I customize the columns?
The download is a fixed four-column schema. If you need fewer columns, delete the extra ones after opening. If you need more, the Video ID column can be joined against other data sources.
Is the date column in my local timezone?
No — it's ISO 8601 UTC. This makes sorting and joining across sources reliable. If you need local time, add a formula in the spreadsheet to convert.
Can I export multiple channels into one CSV?
The tool exports one channel per run. Run each channel, then stack the CSVs in Excel or Sheets — add a "Channel" column before combining if you need to distinguish rows.
