YouTube

Retrieve channel profile

Returns the profile of a YouTube channel by id, which can be a channel id, @handle, /c or /user path, bare username or full channel URL. The profile has channel id, name and URL, bio, join date, region, profile picture, links, and stats with followers_count, videos_count and views_count.

get/youtube/profile/{id}

Request

  • Base URL: https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1
  • URL: https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/youtube/profile/{id}
  • Auth: API key in header x-api-key

Path parameters

idstring required

Channel ID, @handle, /c path, /user path, bare username, or full YouTube channel URL

Headers

x-api-keystring required

API key required

Response

Wrapped Profile payload

codeinteger
msgstring

Example response

{
  "code": 200,
  "data": {
    "bio": "OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.",
    "channel_id": "UCXZCJLdBC09xxGZ6gcdrc6A",
    "channel_name": "OpenAI",
    "channel_url": "http://www.youtube.com/@OpenAI",
    "created_at": "2025-07-12T08:46:11.740932549Z",
    "id": "fe03dcedad8ab90c5f81eb4a405a464b",
    "joined_date": "2017-03-10T00:00:00Z",
    "links": [
      "twitter.com/openai",
      "linkedin.com/company/openai",
      "openai.com"
    ],
    "profile_pic": "https://yt3.googleusercontent.com/MopgmVAFV9BqlzOJ-UINtmutvEPcNe5IbKMmP_4vZZo3vnJXcZGtybUBsXaEVxkmxKyGqX9R=s900-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj",
    "region": "United States",
    "stats": {
      "followers_count": 1580000,
      "videos_count": 305,
      "views_count": 75159285
    },
    "updated_at": "2025-07-12T08:46:11.740932749Z"
  },
  "msg": "OK"
}

Changes

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