YouTube channel — POST /v1/youtube/channel

@handle and channel URLs resolve through InnerTube navigation/resolve_url (~1 KB); a UC… id goes straight to browse (~440 KB). channel carries the title, handle, subscribers_text and video_count_text verbatim ("27.9M subscribers", "5.8K videos"), the full description, keywords, RSS URL, avatar, banner and the header's first link (more_links_text says how many more YouTube folds away). videos rows carry views and the relative age verbatim as YouTube prints them on the grid ("47K views", "16 hours ago"); a channel with no Videos tab answers its metadata with no videos. With page_token the answer is the next page of videos only (an empty page is not charged). An unknown handle or id is a 404.

Request

POSThttps://api.scrapercompany.com/v1/youtube/channel

Authenticate with your API key in the x-api-key header (see Authentication).

Body

JSON object. Unknown fields are rejected with 422.

channelstring | nullmin length 3, max length 300
@handle, a UC… channel id (channels[].channel_id or video.channel.id from the other YouTube routes) or a channel URL (/@name, /channel/UC…, /c/…, /user/…). Required unless page_token is given.
page_tokenstring | nullmax length 4000
next_page_token from a previous answer: the next page of videos only (channel is then null).
hlstringdefault enpattern ^[A-Za-z]{2,3}(?:-[A-Za-z0-9]{2,4})?$
Interface language YouTube localizes texts in (hl): relative dates, view-count wording, caption track names. Counts parse to integers only for English-style numbers.
glstringdefault USpattern ^[A-Za-z]{2}$
Content country (gl), two letters.

Example request

curl -X POST "https://api.scrapercompany.com/v1/youtube/channel" \
  -H "x-api-key: $SCRAPERCOMPANY_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{}'

Response

200 — A channel's metadata and latest videos. Metered responses carry x-credits-charged and x-credits-remaining headers (see credit headers).

200 response

{
  "search_parameters": {
    "engine": "youtube_channel",
    "channel": "@TED",
    "hl": "en",
    "gl": "US"
  },
  "channel": {
    "channel_id": "UCAuUUnT6oDeKwE6v1NGQxug",
    "title": "TED",
    "handle": "@TED",
    "link": "https://www.youtube.com/@TED",
    "subscribers_text": "27.9M subscribers",
    "video_count_text": "5.8K videos",
    "description": "The TED Talks channel features the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less) — plus originals, podcasts and exclusive content.",
    "keywords": "TED talks ideas worth spreading technology entertainment design",
    "rss_url": "https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCAuUUnT6oDeKwE6v1NGQxug",
    "is_family_safe": true,
    "avatar": "https://yt3.googleusercontent.com/ytc/AIdro_koIFcCOrvh0KThLNOiazAIDu6hcs8bjkGNwe1f6A_OYm8=s160-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj",
    "banner": "https://yt3.googleusercontent.com/mgi4tXOEErQ-2-TUQISotNllP2DOI2IvpXEImFufQLKixWv2T-mKHv__uH3Nc5_gISGhF3IH=w2560-fcrop64=1,00005a57ffffa5a8-k-c0xffffffff-no-nd-rj",
    "links": [
      {
        "title": "ted.com/membership",
        "url": "https://www.ted.com/membership"
      }
    ],
    "more_links_text": "and 2 more links"
  },
  "videos": [
    {
      "position": 1,
      "video_id": "RCNO3k4QL5M",
      "title": "How to Use Tech to Outsmart Dictators | Leopoldo López | TED",
      "link": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCNO3k4QL5M",
      "channel": {
        "name": "TED",
        "id": "UCAuUUnT6oDeKwE6v1NGQxug",
        "handle": "@TED",
        "link": "https://www.youtube.com/@TED",
        "thumbnail": "https://yt3.googleusercontent.com/ytc/AIdro_koIFcCOrvh0KThLNOiazAIDu6hcs8bjkGNwe1f6A_OYm8=s160-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj"
      },
      "views_text": "61K views",
      "published_time": "1 day ago",
      "length": "14:50",
      "length_seconds": 890,
      "badges": [],
      "is_live": false,
      "thumbnail": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/RCNO3k4QL5M/hq720_custom_3.jpg?sqp=CKDll9YG-oaymwErCNAFEJQDSFryq4qpAx0IARUAAIhCGAHYAQHiAQoIGBACGAY4AUABuALzGA==&rs=AOn4CLAxLLMDB4J2WrXf-_N4jpz3dltqvw"
    }
  ],
  "next_page_token": "4qmFsgLdCBIYVUNBdVVVblQ2b0RlS3dFNnYxTkdReHVn…",
  "meta": {
    "source": "youtube",
    "wire_bytes": 441470,
    "elapsed_s": 0.42
  }
}

Errors

Errors return a JSON body with a detail field. Failed requests are not charged. See Errors for the full list and retry advice.

Status	Meaning	Retry?
`401`Unauthorized	Missing or invalid API key. `{"detail":"missing or invalid API key"}`	No, fix the request
`402`Payment Required	Not enough credits for this request. Only returned once credit enforcement is switched on; during the beta metering runs in shadow mode and never blocks. `{"detail":"insufficient credits: this request costs 5, 0 available. Credits renew 2026-11-01."}`	No, fix the request
`404`Not Found	The property, stay, job or record was not found. `{"detail":"job not found"}`	No, fix the request
`422`Unprocessable Content	Request validation failed. `detail` is a list of problems for schema errors, or a string for semantic checks performed by the endpoint. `{"detail":[{"loc":["body","name"],"msg":"Field required","type":"missing"}]}`	No, fix the request
`429`Too Many Requests	Too many requests: the key's requests-per-minute limit was exceeded, or (once credit enforcement is on) the plan's concurrent-request limit. No rate-limit or Retry-After headers are sent; back off and retry. `{"detail":"rate limit 60/min exceeded"}`	Yes, with backoff
`502`Bad Gateway	The upstream source failed, blocked the request or returned an unusable answer. Safe to retry later; failed requests are not charged. `{"detail":"RuntimeError"}`	Yes, with backoff
`503`Service Unavailable	Temporarily unavailable: a dependency of this endpoint is down, or the upstream source changed its contract. Retry later. `{"detail":"database unavailable: OperationalError"}`	Yes, with backoff

Try it

The quickest way: open this endpoint in Try it. It runs on your account with the example request filled in, shows the cost before you run, and shows the answer as a readable table next to the JSON and the code. Signed out? You sign in first and come straight back.

Export your key: export SCRAPERCOMPANY_API_KEY=sk_... (no key yet? request access).
Copy the cURL example above and run it in a terminal.
Or open the interactive playground on api.scrapercompany.com, paste your key and pick this endpoint.

Credits

2 credits per successful call (2 (an empty answer, an unknown channel and failed requests are free)). Failed, blocked and empty results are free. Credit metering is in beta and does not block requests yet.

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