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Best YouTube channel video API in 2026

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YouTube Data API (Google), Scrappa and Captapi are the best YouTube channel video API providers in our benchmark. We benchmarked 10 providers and rank the 9 we 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 videos cost. We rank 43 plans by price. Anysite's $300 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 videos: $0.0016. Anysite charges for each page of results. We count 1,000 videos on each page to get the $0.0016 price.

Every YouTube channel video API provider we score, ranked

  1. YouTube Data API (Google), free, Default quota: Overall score 84.4, Data score 57, $0.00 per 1,000 videos
  2. Scrappa, $500 pack: Overall score 66.0, Data score 47, $0.0079 per 1,000 videos
  3. Captapi, $9 monthly: Overall score 64.3, Data score 64, $0.045 per 1,000 videos
  4. ScrapeCreators, $47 pack: Overall score 51.0, Data score 94
  5. Litescrape, top-up from $10: Overall score 46.0, Data score 62
  6. HasData, $59 monthly: Overall score 43.4, Data score 72
  7. Social Fetch, $14 pack: Overall score 43.4, Data score 71
  8. AnyAPI, top-up from $10: Overall score 31.0, Data score 35
  9. DataBlue, $299 monthly: Overall score 30.6, Data score 29, $2.08 per 1,000 videos

We don't rank 1 other provider we benchmarked: lobstr.io. Each lobstr.io plan is free, billed yearly, over $500 to start or priced on request. Some lobstr.io plans use an API call we haven't scored yet. We don't score these plans.

  1. #1 YouTube Data API (Google): YouTube channel video API

    YouTube Data API (Google), free, Default quota

    It returns 3 of the 6 key fields we check: Text, Media, Author.

    Overall score
    84.4
    $ per 1,000
    $0.00
    Price score
    100
    • $ per 1,000 channels the provider can't find: $0
    • Plans of this API we rank by price: 43
    • Plans cheaper per 1,000 videos than this plan: 0
    Data score
    57
    Cost to get started score
    100
    • How you pay: free
    • Least to pay before your first result: $0
    Bundle score
    99
    • Also pays for: 70 other calls
    Performance score
    100
    • This call's median time on 29 October 2026, minus the baseline: 0.163 s
    • YouTube Data API (Google), Search: list, the fastest benchmarked provider: 0.163 s
    • On 29 October 2026, we sent this provider all 19 channels in our benchmark.
    • This plan scored 0.5742 out of 1 on those 19 channels. That gives this plan a Data score of 57 out of 100.

  2. #2 Scrappa: YouTube channel video API

    Scrappa, $500 pack

    It returns 4 of the 6 key fields we check: Text, Media, Analytics, Author.

    Overall score
    66.0
    $ per 1,000
    $0.0079
    Price score
    90
    • $ per 1,000 channels the provider can't find: $0
    • Plans of this API we rank by price: 43
    • Plans cheaper per 1,000 videos than this plan: 5
    Data score
    47
    Cost to get started score
    65
    • How you pay: a pack you pay first
    • Least to pay before your first result: $500
    Bundle score
    100
    • Also pays for, from the same budget: 2,378 other calls
    Performance score
    12
    • This call's median time on 29 October 2026, minus the baseline: 1.306 s
    • YouTube Data API (Google), Search: list, the fastest benchmarked provider: 0.163 s
    • On 29 October 2026, we sent this provider all 19 channels in our benchmark.
    • This plan scored 0.4718 out of 1 on those 19 channels. That gives this plan a Data score of 47 out of 100.

  3. #3 Captapi: YouTube channel video API

    Captapi, $9 monthly

    It returns 4 of the 6 key fields we check: Text, Media, Analytics, Author.

    Overall score
    64.3
    $ per 1,000
    $0.045
    Price score
    65
    • $ per 1,000 channels the provider can't find: $0
    • Plans of this API we rank by price: 43
    • Plans cheaper per 1,000 videos than this plan: 17
    Data score
    64
    Cost to get started score
    90
    • How you pay: monthly
    • Least to pay before your first result: $9
    Bundle score
    99
    • Also pays for, from the same budget: 178 other calls
    Performance score
    1
    • This call's median time on 29 October 2026, minus the baseline: 15.622 s
    • YouTube Data API (Google), Search: list, the fastest benchmarked provider: 0.163 s
    • On 29 October 2026, we sent this provider all 19 channels in our benchmark.
    • This plan scored 0.6383 out of 1 on those 19 channels. That gives this plan a Data score of 64 out of 100.

The Data score on YouTube channel video APIs

This score, out of 100, shows how many of a channel's videos a provider's call returns. We ask for the first page of each channel's videos, by the channel's handle. For each channel, we count up to 30 of the videos the call returned. Most providers send 30 videos per page. When an answer says the channel has no more videos, we count out of the videos the channel has. We also check whether each video has fields like the title and view count. Then we average the results over all channels. Each channel counts the same. A channel with no video in the answer 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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