Channel 4 streams a UK free-to-air VOD catalogue built on six TV channels, and its episode records still name the channel and the day of the first showing - for Father Ted, April 1995.
You pick the scope - the full Channel 4 list of shows or chosen categories, programmes only or every episode, with or without the guide - and the cadence: one snapshot, or repeat runs that turn into a change log. We build the Channel 4 scraper, run it and deliver CSV, JSON, XLSX or an API endpoint, with field names agreed before the first run.
The engineering is ours: anti-bot handling, proxy rotation and CAPTCHA solving come with the managed service. The limits are fixed too. A Channel 4 scraping project stays on pages a signed-out visitor can open: we never sign in and never touch the player or the stream, so the geo-block on playback never comes into it. We collect the catalogue and the schedule, not viewers or their viewing history.
Programme pages are public and ship the whole record inside the page: every series and every episode in one load, even for a run of more than a thousand episodes. This is how we extract Channel 4 data for each title.
What the record leaves out is the production company - the first enrichment most buyers ask for.
Channel 4 UK listings - the Channel 4 schedule for six channels - are a second dataset with their own addresses. The guide grids them on dated pages that reach a week back and ten days ahead, so an eighteen-day window is always open, and each channel adds something different to the feed.
Every slot carries start and end in UTC, duration in seconds, a repeat flag, a numeric age rating of 0, 16 or 18, guidance text, and subtitle, audio description and HD flags. It also carries the same programme id as its on-demand episode plus a catch-up flag, so a broadcast and its catch-up copy match exactly. Slot titles are display strings cut with an ellipsis, so the full name comes from the brand field. The Watch Live page simulcasts five of the six channels - E4 Extra is guide-only - and the +1 channels are not gridded separately.
The Channel 4 catalogue is the on-demand side of a public service broadcaster with a model of its own: publicly owned but commercially funded, and a commissioner rather than a studio - Channel 4 buys its programmes from outside producers instead of making them. The streaming service began as 4oD, became All 4 and took the Channel 4 name in 2023. Viewing is free with adverts once you sign in; the Channel 4+ price is GBP 3.99 a month or GBP 39.99 a year, for ad-free viewing of most programmes and early access to some new ones.
The list of Channel 4 programmes is the All Shows index. As of September 2026 it held 2,516 titles, 666 of them in Box Sets - the shelf many viewers still search for as All 4 box sets. The index sorts by Popular, A-Z or Recently Added, filters to subtitled or audio-described titles and pages sixty titles at a time. Thirteen categories slice the same set. Nine are the Channel 4 genres - Comedy, Documentaries, Drama, Entertainment, Film, Lifestyle, News and Current Affairs, Sport and World Drama - and the rest are Box Sets, Audio Described and two catch-up shelves, On TV: Yesterday and On TV: Last 7 Days. Sub-genres sit one level down, so the Channel 4 reality shows list has its own address under Entertainment. Walter Presents curates the foreign-language Channel 4 box sets, and the Film4 collection the films.
A programme lives at /programmes/ plus a slug, and an episode adds /on-demand/ plus a programme id. Slugs outlived both renames and old 4oD links still redirect, so an All 4 export from years ago joins onto today's records. The sitemap is one large file of programme and episode pages, but it lags the newest arrivals, so the A-Z index is the completeness check.
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Beside this season's launches, Channel 4 keeps whole archive runs on demand, and the back catalogue answers questions a list of new titles cannot. Every episode keeps its first-shown date and channel, so the age and origin of Channel 4 data are counted rather than guessed.
Analysts follow the same shift from the broadcaster's side: Channel 4 put its 2025 streaming viewing at 72.8 billion minutes, up 15 percent. The value appears when the same pages are read again on a schedule, so that arrivals, early releases and departures land as dated rows.
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Web scraping is a method of obtaining web data by extracting it from pages of web resources with the help of a program, that is, in automatic mode. It is used to syntactically convert web pages into more usable forms.
If you specialize in machine learning, you need to feed large amounts of data to the algorithms. Web scraping is the easiest and the most efficient method of collecting the data from all over the Internet.
ScrapeIt is a managed web scraping agency: we write, run and maintain the crawlers, and you receive the data. Most Channel 4 projects open with a paid sample - World Drama, for instance, with every Walter Presents series and episode, plus a week of the six-channel guide - so you can check first-shown dates, guidance and ids against your own records before a schedule is agreed. Files land in S3, GCS, an SFTP folder, a webhook or your database.
Not any more. Channel 4 once ran a Developer Network on a hosted API portal, archived from 2010: each application needed an approved key, the documentation covered A-Z, episode-guide and clips feeds, and the licence was non-commercial, granted on a trial basis and limited to end users in the UK. The portal's address no longer resolves. Today's site and apps run on internal services that are neither documented nor open to outside developers. What we deliver is a Channel 4 API of our own: an endpoint over the extracted catalogue and guide, with your field names and refresh interval.
Channel 4 streaming is offered in the UK and the Republic of Ireland, and the help pages add Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man. Ireland is not a full mirror: rights keep some programmes out there, and Watch Live is for UK residents only. The linear channel is still carried in HD by Irish TV platforms. So Channel 4 available countries means one catalogue for one area rather than a storefront per country, and the public programme pages do not mark which titles are withheld in Ireland - that is not a field anyone can deliver from them.
Yes, with one caveat. New releases come from the Recently Added sort and from ids that appear between snapshots. A Channel 4 coming soon list draws on three signals: a programme page published before launch with no playable episodes, a next-episode placeholder with its date, and the ten-day guide. A Channel 4 leaving soon list can be read directly only for films and one-off specials, which print days left; series carry no end date, so their departures come from the difference between two snapshots - an episode that vanishes, or a title whose playable count falls to zero while its page stays up. Daily runs add up to monthly lists of arrivals and departures.
Yes, as an enrichment. Channel 4 commissions its programmes from outside producers, and the programme record lists cast, writers, directors and presenters but not the production company. The press packs on its press site do: a pack names the producer, any co-producer, the commissioning editor and the launch day and time. We match packs to programmes by title and launch date and add producer and commissioner as columns. The press listings sit behind a sign-in and stay out of scope, as do the contact details printed on press pages.
Read the terms first. The Channel 4 terms of use bar robots, scrapers and crawlers without written approval, and forbid collecting content or metadata for commercial use or for text and data mining. The robots file leaves programme pages open to ordinary crawlers but blocks a named list of AI crawlers everywhere except the press site. We work only on public catalogue and guide pages, never sign in and never touch the player or the stream. How the terms bear on your use depends on purpose and jurisdiction; we are a contractor, not your lawyer, so take the question to your own counsel.
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