YouTube

Get a YouTube channel

Retrieve a public YouTube channel by channelId, handle, url or forUsername, with identity, statistics, links, keywords, avatar and banner. Each successful request costs 1 account credit, including partial results. Failed requests cost 0 credits.

get/v1/youtube/channel

Request

  • Base URL: https://api.scrapeatlas.com
  • URL: https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/youtube/channel
  • Auth: API key in header x-api-key

Query parameters

channelIdstring

Channel ID from the page metadata; checked against a requested channelId.

handlestring

Handle with the leading @, taken from the canonical URL; null for channels without a handle (topic and auto-generated channels).

urlstring

Channel URL: youtube.com/@handle, /channel/UC…, /user/name, /c/name or a legacy youtube.com/name link. www and m subdomains, http/https, a trailing tab such as /videos or /about, query and fragment are accepted and removed.

forUsernamestring

Legacy YouTube username, resolved through youtube.com/user/<name>.

Response

Inspect the response status and failure or coverage fields.

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Changes

No recorded changes to this operation across all 1 revision of this API.