YouTube Channel API

Channel details — name, handle, subscriber and video counts.

YouTube API pricing — $0.50 per 1,000 results

POST /api/public/v1/scrape/youtube/channel

Returns profile_api

Parameters#

handle string required

Channel handle, with or without the @.

Example: NASA

Results#

GET /runs/:id/results answers with this once the run has finished — one profile per row.

Every row also carries raw_json — the platform's own object for that row, exactly as it arrived, with nothing removed. It is left out of the example for length.

This endpoint errs towards returning more rather than less, so expect a few extra rows alongside what you asked for. Everything still comes back typed and parsed the same way.

curl -X POST https://socialholmes.com/api/public/v1/scrape/youtube/channel \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SOCIALHOLMES_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"parameters": {"handle": "NASA"}}'

import os
import requests

run = requests.post(
    "https://socialholmes.com/api/public/v1/scrape/youtube/channel",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['SOCIALHOLMES_KEY']}"},
    json={"parameters": {"handle": "NASA"}},
).json()

print(run["id"], run["status"])

const response = await fetch("https://socialholmes.com/api/public/v1/scrape/youtube/channel", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.SOCIALHOLMES_KEY}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({ parameters: { handle: "NASA" } }),
})

const run = await response.json()
console.log(run.id, run.status)

require "net/http"
require "json"

response = Net::HTTP.post(
  URI("https://socialholmes.com/api/public/v1/scrape/youtube/channel"),
  { parameters: { handle: "NASA" } }.to_json,
  "Authorization" => "Bearer #{ENV.fetch('SOCIALHOLMES_KEY')}",
  "Content-Type" => "application/json"
)

run = JSON.parse(response.body)
puts run["id"], run["status"]

<?php

$ch = curl_init("https://socialholmes.com/api/public/v1/scrape/youtube/channel");

curl_setopt_array($ch, [
    CURLOPT_POST => true,
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
        "Authorization: Bearer " . getenv("SOCIALHOLMES_KEY"),
        "Content-Type: application/json",
    ],
    CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode(["parameters" => ["handle" => "NASA"]]),
]);

$run = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), true);

echo $run["id"], " ", $run["status"];

package main

import (
	"bytes"
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"os"
)

func main() {
	body, _ := json.Marshal(map[string]any{
		"parameters": map[string]string{"handle": "NASA"},
	})

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", "https://socialholmes.com/api/public/v1/scrape/youtube/channel", bytes.NewReader(body))
	req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer "+os.Getenv("SOCIALHOLMES_KEY"))
	req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
	defer res.Body.Close()

	var run map[string]any
	json.NewDecoder(res.Body).Decode(&run)

	fmt.Println(run["id"], run["status"])
}

202 Accepted

{
  "id": "8f14e45f-ceea-467a-9c2e-1b0f5a4c7d21",
  "status": "queued",
  "platform": "youtube",
  "endpoint": "channel",
  "target": "NASA",
  "url": "https://www.youtube.com/@NASA",
  "result_count": 0,
  "created_at": "2026-10-16T17:07:25Z"
}

example

{
  "run": {
    "id": "8f14e45f-ceea-467a-9c2e-1b0f5a4c7d21",
    "status": "succeeded",
    "platform": "youtube",
    "endpoint": "channel",
    "target": "NASA",
    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/@NASA",
    "result_count": 1,
    "estimated_cost": 1,
    "captures": 1,
    "created_at": "2026-08-22T09:11:03Z",
    "started_at": "2026-08-22T09:12:03Z",
    "finished_at": "2026-08-22T09:14:03Z"
  },
  "unit": "profile",
  "results": [
    {
      "id": "UCLA_DiR1FfKNvjuUpBHmylQ",
      "username": "@NASA",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLA_DiR1FfKNvjuUpBHmylQ",
      "full_name": "NASA",
      "biography": "NASA's mission is to explore the unknown in air and space.",
      "keywords": "nasa space science",
      "avatar_url": "https://youtube.example/img/nasa_900.jpg"
    }
  ],
  "page": {
    "limit": 1,
    "offset": 0,
    "returned": 1,
    "total": 1
  }
}

Try it