Get Live YouTube Channel

Fetch fresh YouTube channel data including subscriber count, video count, and total views.

Pricing: 0.5 credits per channel scraped ($0.005)

GET /v1/raw/youtube/channel/{handle}

cURL

cURL

curl --request GET \
  --url https://api.influship.com/v1/raw/youtube/channel/{handle} \
  --header 'X-API-Key: <api-key>'

import Influship from 'influship';

const client = new Influship({
  apiKey: process.env['INFLUSHIP_API_KEY'], // This is the default and can be omitted
});

const response = await client.raw.youtube.getChannel('@techreviews');

console.log(response.data);

import os
from influship import Influship

client = Influship(
    api_key=os.environ.get("INFLUSHIP_API_KEY"),  # This is the default and can be omitted
)
response = client.raw.youtube.get_channel(
    handle="@techreviews",
)
print(response.data)

200

{
  "data": {
    "channel_id": "UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ",
    "handle": "mkbhd",
    "name": "Marques Brownlee",
    "description": "<string>",
    "avatar_url": "<string>",
    "banner_url": "<string>",
    "country": "US",
    "keywords": [
      "<string>"
    ],
    "subscribers": 20900000,
    "subscribers_text": "20.9M subscribers",
    "videos_count": 1500,
    "views_total": 4500000000,
    "videos": [
      {
        "video_id": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
        "title": "Full Body Workout | 30 Minutes",
        "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
        "thumbnail_url": "<string>",
        "published_text": "2 weeks ago",
        "duration_seconds": 1845,
        "duration_text": "30:45",
        "view_count": 125000,
        "view_count_text": "125K views"
      }
    ],
    "scraped_at": "2024-01-15T14:30:00Z"
  }
}

{
  "error": {
    "code": "validation_error",
    "message": "Request validation failed",
    "param": "query",
    "request_id": "550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000",
    "details": {}
  }
}

{
  "error": {
    "code": "validation_error",
    "message": "Request validation failed",
    "param": "query",
    "request_id": "550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000",
    "details": {}
  }
}

{
  "error": {
    "code": "validation_error",
    "message": "Request validation failed",
    "param": "query",
    "request_id": "550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000",
    "details": {}
  }
}

{
  "error": {
    "code": "validation_error",
    "message": "Request validation failed",
    "param": "query",
    "request_id": "550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000",
    "details": {}
  }
}

{
  "error": {
    "code": "validation_error",
    "message": "Request validation failed",
    "param": "query",
    "request_id": "550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000",
    "details": {}
  }
}

{
  "error": {
    "code": "validation_error",
    "message": "Request validation failed",
    "param": "query",
    "request_id": "550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000",
    "details": {}
  }
}

{
  "error": {
    "code": "validation_error",
    "message": "Request validation failed",
    "param": "query",
    "request_id": "550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000",
    "details": {}
  }
}

Authorizations

X-API-Key · string · header · required

Path Parameters

handle · string · required

YouTube channel handle. Accepts a bare handle (techreviews), an @handle (@techreviews), or a full channel URL (https://youtube.com/@techreviews); surrounding share tokens and trailing paths are ignored. A value that is not a channel handle returns a 400 validation error.

Minimum string length: 1

Example:

"@techreviews"

Query Parameters

include_videos · boolean

Include recent videos in response

Example:

true

video_limit · integer · default: 12

Number of videos to include

Required range: 1 <= x <= 50

Example:

12

Response

200

application/json

Successful response

data · object · required

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