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Best YouTube channel API in 2026

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Litescrape, HasData and ScrapeCreators are the best YouTube channel API providers in our benchmark. We benchmarked 9 providers and rank all 9 by score. For the three we score highest, we show each one's top scoring plan, each part of the plan's score and what 1,000 channels cost. We rank 103 plans by price. Litescrape's top-up from $10 is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 channels: $0.15.

Every YouTube channel API provider we score, ranked

  1. Litescrape, top-up from $10: Overall score 91.1, Data score 89, $0.15 per 1,000 channels
  2. HasData, $249 monthly: Overall score 82.9, Data score 97, $0.83 per 1,000 channels
  3. ScrapeCreators, $497 pack: Overall score 82.9, Data score 97, $0.994 per 1,000 channels
  4. Scrappa, $10 pack: Overall score 77.5, Data score 57, $0.303 per 1,000 channels
  5. lobstr.io, $500 monthly, Team: Overall score 77.1, Data score 94, $0.50 per 1,000 channels
  6. DataBlue, $149 monthly: Overall score 74.6, Data score 88, $2.31 per 1,000 channels
  7. Captapi, $9 monthly: Overall score 72.9, Data score 97, $4.50 per 1,000 channels
  8. AnyAPI, top-up from $10: Overall score 67.0, Data score 42, $0.45 per 1,000 channels
  9. EnsembleData, $400 monthly, Silver: Overall score 55.1, Data score 55, $2.42 per 1,000 channels

  1. #1 Litescrape: YouTube channel API

    Litescrape, top-up from $10

    It returns 8 of the 11 key fields we check: Bio, Photo, Links, Location, Verified, Followers, Posts, Views.

    Overall score
    91.1
    $ per 1,000
    $0.15
    Price score
    99
    • $ per 1,000 channels the provider can't find: $0
    • Plans of this API we rank by price: 103
    • Plans cheaper per 1,000 channels than this plan: 1
    Data score
    89
    Cost to get started score
    93
    • How you pay: a top-up you pay first
    • Least to pay before your first result: $10
    Bundle score
    99
    • Also pays for, from the same budget: 187 other calls
    Performance score
    58
    • This call's median time on 29 October 2026, minus the baseline: 1.275 s
    • DataBlue, the fastest benchmarked provider: 0.734 s
    • On 29 October 2026, we sent this provider all 20 channels in our benchmark.
    • This plan scored 0.8891 out of 1 on those 20 channels. That gives this plan a Data score of 89 out of 100.

  2. #2 HasData: YouTube channel API

    HasData, $249 monthly

    It returns 6 of the 11 key fields we check: Bio, Photo, Links, Verified, Followers, Posts.

    Overall score
    82.9
    $ per 1,000
    $0.83
    Price score
    73
    • $ per 1,000 channels the provider can't find: the provider's pages don't say
    • Plans of this API we rank by price: 103
    • Plans cheaper per 1,000 channels than this plan: 17
    Data score
    97
    Cost to get started score
    67
    • How you pay: monthly
    • Least to pay before your first result: $249
    Bundle score
    98
    • Also pays for, from the same budget: 62 other calls
    Performance score
    67
    • This call's median time on 29 October 2026, minus the baseline: 1.091 s
    • DataBlue, the fastest benchmarked provider: 0.734 s
    • On 29 October 2026, we sent this provider all 20 channels in our benchmark.
    • This plan scored 0.968 out of 1 on those 20 channels. That gives this plan a Data score of 97 out of 100.

  3. #3 ScrapeCreators: YouTube channel API

    ScrapeCreators, $497 pack

    It returns 8 of the 11 key fields we check: Bio, Photo, Links, Contact, Location, Followers, Posts, Views.

    Overall score
    82.9
    $ per 1,000
    $0.994
    Price score
    71
    • $ per 1,000 channels the provider can't find: the provider's pages don't say
    • Plans of this API we rank by price: 103
    • Plans cheaper per 1,000 channels than this plan: 19
    Data score
    97
    Cost to get started score
    65
    • How you pay: a pack you pay first
    • Least to pay before your first result: $497
    Bundle score
    99
    • Also pays for, from the same budget: 198 other calls
    Performance score
    72
    • This call's median time on 29 October 2026, minus the baseline: 1.022 s
    • DataBlue, the fastest benchmarked provider: 0.734 s
    • On 29 October 2026, we sent this provider all 20 channels in our benchmark.
    • This plan scored 0.9741 out of 1 on those 20 channels. That gives this plan a Data score of 97 out of 100.

The Data score on YouTube channel APIs

This score, out of 100, shows how much of a channel's details a provider's call returns. We ask for each channel's details by the channel's handle. We also read each channel's own YouTube page, with no account, minutes after the call. For each channel, we count the parts the answer held. We count them out of the parts the page shows or any provider's answer holds. A channel's email shows on the channel's page only after a sign-in. We count the email where the page offers that sign-in. Then we average the results over all channels. Each channel counts the same. A channel the call didn't find counts as 0. We compare a provider that ran on fewer channels with the other providers on those same channels. A provider can't score higher by running only on easy channels. We lower the score when we test the call on fewer channels than the benchmark has.

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