Live

A channel's live streams, past and present. Use `limit` for how many.

POST /api/public/v1/scrape/youtube/live

Returns post_feed_api

Parameters#

handle string required

Channel handle, with or without the @.

Example: NASA

limit integer optional

How many results you want. The run is sized from it, and you are billed for exactly that many.

Results#

GET /runs/:id/results answers with this once the run has finished — one post 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/live \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SOCIALHOLMES_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"parameters": {"handle": "NASA"}, "limit": 25}'

import os
import requests

run = requests.post(
    "https://socialholmes.com/api/public/v1/scrape/youtube/live",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['SOCIALHOLMES_KEY']}"},
    json={"parameters": {"handle": "NASA"}, "limit": 25},
).json()

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

const response = await fetch("https://socialholmes.com/api/public/v1/scrape/youtube/live", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.SOCIALHOLMES_KEY}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({ parameters: { handle: "NASA" }, limit: 25 }),
})

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/live"),
  { parameters: { handle: "NASA" }, limit: 25 }.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/live");

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"], "limit" => 25]),
]);

$run = json_decode(curl_exec($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"},
		"limit":      25,
	})

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", "https://socialholmes.com/api/public/v1/scrape/youtube/live", 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": "live",
  "target": "NASA",
  "url": "https://www.youtube.com/@NASA/streams",
  "result_count": 0,
  "created_at": "2026-08-28T16:19:50Z"
}

example

{
  "run": {
    "id": "8f14e45f-ceea-467a-9c2e-1b0f5a4c7d21",
    "status": "succeeded",
    "platform": "youtube",
    "endpoint": "live",
    "target": "NASA",
    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/@NASA/streams",
    "result_count": 2,
    "requested": 25,
    "estimated_cost": 125,
    "captures": 1,
    "created_at": "2026-08-22T09:11:03Z",
    "started_at": "2026-08-22T09:12:03Z",
    "finished_at": "2026-08-22T09:14:03Z"
  },
  "unit": "post",
  "results": [
    {
      "id": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
      "title": "Artemis II Crew Rollout — Full Replay",
      "description_snippet": "Watch the Artemis II stack roll out to Launch Complex 39B.",
      "duration": "1:42:07",
      "duration_seconds": 6127,
      "published_text": "5 days ago",
      "view_count_text": "1.2M views",
      "view_count": 1204118,
      "thumbnail_url": "https://youtube.example/vi/dQw4w9WgXcQ/hq720.jpg",
      "author": {
        "id": "UCLA_DiR1FfKNvjuUpBHmylQ",
        "name": "NASA",
        "url": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLA_DiR1FfKNvjuUpBHmylQ",
        "is_verified": true
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "C8xYabcDEF1",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8xYabcDEF1",
      "title": "What a Moon Sunrise Actually Looks Like",
      "duration": "8:12",
      "duration_seconds": 492,
      "published_text": "2 weeks ago",
      "view_count_text": "812K views",
      "view_count": 812004,
      "thumbnail_url": "https://youtube.example/vi/C8xYabcDEF1/hq720.jpg",
      "author": {
        "id": "UCLA_DiR1FfKNvjuUpBHmylQ",
        "name": "NASA",
        "url": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLA_DiR1FfKNvjuUpBHmylQ"
      }
    }
  ],
  "page": {
    "limit": 2,
    "offset": 0,
    "returned": 2,
    "total": 2
  }
}

Try it