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YouTube channel details API

Name, avatar, subscribers, video and view counts, join date, country and linked links.

GET /v1/youtube/channel

GET /v1/youtube/channel

Name, avatar, subscribers, video and view counts, join date, country and linked links. Pass a handle, an id (channelId) or a channel url.

  • Cost: 1 credit
  • Cache: Results are kept up to 30 days; send max_age_days to reuse them for free.
  • Timeout: A request still running after about 25 seconds answers 202 with a job to poll (Batch and jobs).

Parameters#

NameTypeRequiredDescription
handlestringone ofChannel handle, with or without @. Also accepted as username.
idstringone ofChannel id (UC...). Also accepted as channelId, channel_id.
urlURLone ofAny channel URL (/@handle, /channel/UC..., /c/name). Accepted hosts: youtube.com, youtu.be.

Send at least one of handle, id, url. If you send several, the first listed is used and the rest are ignored.

Every request also accepts:

  • trim: true for a smaller response without null fields and extra.
  • raw: true to also get the platform's original object as raw.
  • max_age_days: accept a cached result up to this many days old, for 0 credits (Caching).

Example request#

Set your key in the environment first (see Authentication).

1curl -G "https://api.socialscrape.dev/v1/youtube/channel" \2  -H "x-api-key: $SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY" \3  --data-urlencode "handle=NASA"

Example response#

This is a sample from a recorded response, lists and long text are shortened, dash characters in the text are replaced with hyphens. Status 200.

200 OKSample response
1{2  "ok": true,3  "credits_charged": 1,4  "credits_remaining": 4999,5  "cached": false,6  "cached_at": null,7  "request_id": "req_361e8bbed3bc9681bdc6d240",8  "data": {9    "object": "profile",10    "platform": "youtube",11    "id": "UCLA_DiR1FfKNvjuUpBHmylQ",12    "handle": "NASA",13    "name": "NASA",14    "headline": null,15    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/@NASA",16    "kind": "channel",17    "bio": "NASA's mission is to pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery, and aeronautics research.\r\n\r\nTo do that, we have worked around the world - and off it - for more than 60 years, searching for answers to fundamental questions a...",18    "avatar_url": "https://yt3.googleusercontent.com/eIf5fNPcIcj9ig-wZBeq4stFy1lgjWTW1nLT5dYlFkHZprZ03QBiMcbpwNMB6XSBjrSFGtAGQg=s160-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj",19    "banner_url": "https://yt3.googleusercontent.com/y8Srh-oCcilLvBO8jAPI546m1bn0puA5DIvQiBZ1cSxc_rZfKxKSFlTCtoCQCtB6viUf1NGsaQ=w2560-fcrop64=1,00005a57ffffa5a8-k-c0xffffffff-no-nd-rj",20    "verified": true,21    "is_private": null,22    "external_url": "https://www.nasa.gov",23    "links": [24      {25        "title": "nasa.gov",26        "url": "https://www.nasa.gov"27      },28      {29        "title": "X",30        "url": "https://x.com/nasa"31      },32      {33        "title": "Facebook",34        "url": "https://www.facebook.com/NASA"35      }36    ],37    "location": null,38    "category": null,39    "created_at": "2008-06-03T00:00:00Z",40    "stats": {41      "followers": 15100000,42      "following": null,43      "posts": 6195,44      "likes": null,45      "views": 113279412046    },47    "extra": {48      "channel_url": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLA_DiR1FfKNvjuUpBHmylQ",49      "facebook_profile_id": "NASA",50      "is_family_safe": true,51      "is_live": true,52      "is_unlisted": false,53      "joined_text": "Joined Jun 3, 2008",54      "keywords": [55        "nasa",56        "space",57        "iss"58      ],59      "rss_url": "https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCLA_DiR1FfKNvjuUpBHmylQ",60      "subscribers_approximate": true,61      "subscribers_text": "15.1M subscribers",62      "verified_kind": "verified",63      "video_count_text": "6.1K videos"64    }65  },66  "cursor": null,67  "has_more": null68}

Response#

A Profile object in data.

See Data models for every field. The envelope around data is described in Responses.

Errors#

Failures are free: credits_charged is 0. Branch on error.code, never on the message.

CodeHTTPRetryMeaning
invalid_params400noA parameter is missing, unknown or has the wrong type.
unsupported_url400noThe URL is not one this endpoint accepts (wrong platform or form).
not_found404noThe platform says this profile, post or item does not exist.

Every request can also fail with the account and platform errors listed on the Errors page.

Example error:

1{2  "ok": false,3  "error": {4    "code": "not_found",5    "message": "The platform says this profile, post or item does not exist.",6    "retryable": false7  },8  "credits_charged": 0,9  "request_id": "req_0f0ff40c1be1850878270ad9"10}