YouTube Channel API

The YouTube Channel API lets you scrape comprehensive channel data including about info, subscriber counts, video sections, and YouTube Shorts. Each successful request costs 5 API credits.

Endpoint: https://api.scrapingdog.com/youtube

API Parameters

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Scrapingdog Parameters

api_key Required
Your personal API key. Available on your dashboard.

Type: String

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Channel

channel_id Required
This is the YouTube Channel ID. You can find it in the channel URL (e.g., youtube.com/channel/UCX6OQ3DkcsbYNE6H8uQQuVA).

Type: String

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Localization

country Optional
ISO code of the country from which you are seeking YouTube search results. Default: us

Type: String
language Optional
Language of the results. Possible Values — en, es, fr, de, etc. Default: en

Type: String

API Examples

Code to Integrate

curl "https://api.scrapingdog.com/youtube?api_key=APIKEY&channel_id=UCX6OQ3DkcsbYNE6H8uQQuVA"

import requests

params = {
    "api_key": "APIKEY",
    "channel_id": "UCX6OQ3DkcsbYNE6H8uQQuVA",
    "country": "us",
    "language": "en"
}

response = requests.get("https://api.scrapingdog.com/youtube", params=params)
print(response.json())

const params = new URLSearchParams({
  api_key: "APIKEY",
  channel_id: "UCX6OQ3DkcsbYNE6H8uQQuVA",
  country: "us",
  language: "en"
});

const res = await fetch(`https://api.scrapingdog.com/youtube?${params}`);
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);

<?php
$url = 'https://api.scrapingdog.com/youtube?' . http_build_query([
    'api_key'    => 'APIKEY',
    'channel_id' => 'UCX6OQ3DkcsbYNE6H8uQQuVA',
    'country'    => 'us',
    'language'   => 'en',
]);
echo file_get_contents($url);

API Response

{
  "about": {
    "description": "Scrapingdog is a web scraping API that helps developers extract public data from search engines, e-commerce platforms, and websites at scale.",
    "subscribers": "372 subscribers",
    "videos": "113 videos",
    "views": "88,943 views",
    "joined_date_text": "Joined May 30, 2020",
    "joined_date": "2020-05-30",
    "links": [
      { "title": "Homepage", "link": "https://scrapingdog.com" },
      { "title": "Twitter", "link": "https://twitter.com/scrapingdog" },
      { "title": "LinkedIn", "link": "https://linkedin.com/company/scrapingdog" },
      { "title": "Medium", "link": "https://medium.com/@darshankhandelwal12" }
    ]
  },
  "channel": {
    "handle": "http://www.youtube.com/@scrapingdog9955",
    "id": "UC-NW7zBTUu2Wz23LOvag09w",
    "title": "Scrapingdog",
    "subscribers": "372 subscribers",
    "videos": "113 videos",
    "keywords": ""web scraping API" "data extraction api" "google search api" ...",
    "tags": ["web scraping API", "data extraction api", "google search api", "serp api"],
    "avatar": "https://yt3.googleusercontent.com/-JH5fOP53DkpmC8wRJqRNclsmAgkNZzLF3IZtygfiw...",
    "banner": "https://yt3.googleusercontent.com/Nsti6tCZSlI2OTWPnyYRt52IUv0qAI1J97Umw3SWrKPY...",
    "is_family_safe": true,
    "first_link": "https://scrapingdog.com"
  },
  "highlighted_video": {
    "id": "GOxYIfnvB-w",
    "title": "What is Scrapingdog | Introduction Video | How To Use Scrapingdog API",
    "link": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOxYIfnvB-w",
    "views": "4197",
    "published_time": "1 year ago"
  },
  "videos_sections": [
    {
      "section_title": "Videos",
      "videos": []
    }
  ],
  "shorts_sections": [
    {
      "section_title": "Shorts",
      "videos": [
        {
          "position": 1,
          "id": "shorts-shelf-item-fqIWBxH1pko",
          "title": "Stop Fighting CAPTCHAs. Do This Instead, 547 views - play Short",
          "link": "https://www.youtube.com/shorts/shorts-shelf-item-fqIWBxH1pko",
          "views": 547,
          "thumbnail": ""
        },
        {
          "position": 2,
          "id": "shorts-shelf-item-RQkUQt06_xc",
          "title": "Weekly API Updates: Fixes Across Google Jobs, Images, YouTube & Amazon, 705 views - play Short",
          "link": "https://www.youtube.com/shorts/shorts-shelf-item-RQkUQt06_xc",
          "views": 705,
          "thumbnail": ""
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}