# ByCrawl, $9 monthly: YouTube channel API

> Get YouTube channel info by channel ID or @handle.

ByCrawl's YouTube channel API on its Lite plan. It costs $18.00 per 1,000 channels. It returns 5 of the 11 key fields we check: Photo, Location, Followers, Posts, Views.
We haven't run ByCrawl through [our YouTube channel API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-youtube-channel-api.txt) yet.
Half of the 340 plans we rank by price cost $1.92 per 1,000 channels or less. This plan costs less per 1,000 channels than 14% of the 340 plans.
[Serpent API's top-up from $500](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/serpent-api/top-up-from-500/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 channels: $0.01.
[YouTube Data API (Google)](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/youtube-data-api-google/free/llms.txt), [Litescrape](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/litescrape/top-up-from-10/llms.txt) and [lobstr.io](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/lobstr-io/500-monthly-team-post-v1-runs-youtube-channel-scraper/llms.txt) are the best YouTube channel API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/bycrawl/9-monthly
- [YouTube channel API: 13 providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-youtube-channel-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.bycrawl.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.bycrawl.com/youtube/channels/{channelId}`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.bycrawl.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://www.bycrawl.com/en/docs/api-reference/youtube?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing#get-youtubechannelschannelid--2-credits
- Sold by: ByCrawl (https://bycrawl.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 45%
- Photo: ✓
- Location: ✓
- Followers: ✓
- Posts: ✓
- Views: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 channels: $18.00
- Per: call
- Billing: monthly
- $ a month: $9

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 90 other calls

## Overage

- $ per 1,000 channels: $24.00

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Get YouTube channel info by channel ID or @handle.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You agree that you will: Comply with all applicable laws and regulations, including data protection, privacy, and intellectual property laws in your jurisdiction and the jurisdictions of the people whose data you process, Honor the terms of service of any third-party platform whose data you access through the Service, [...] All materials on the ByCrawl website and dashboard — including [...] the structure of API responses — are owned by or licensed to Signalsurf, Inc. [...] You may not reproduce, distribute, modify, publicly display, create derivative works from, or otherwise exploit any portion of the website or its materials without our prior written permission. [...] You agree not to use the Service to: Violate any applicable law, regulation, or third-party right, Collect, store, or process personal data in violation of applicable privacy laws, Harass, defame, dox, stalk, or harm any individual or group, Build profiles for unlawful discrimination on the basis of protected characteristics, Attempt to reverse-engineer, decompile, or otherwise derive the source code of the Service, Circumvent rate limits, credit limits, billing controls, or access restrictions, Resell, sublicense, or redistribute raw API responses as a substitute for the Service, Use the Service to develop a competing product or service, Introduce malicious code, perform denial-of-service attacks, or otherwise interfere with the integrity or performance of the Service

## Plan

- Pay: $9
- You get: 1,000 credits a month
- Enough for: 500 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 2
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: channelId
- Method: GET
- Path: /youtube/channels/{channelId}

## About the plan

- Plan: Lite
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 10 fields the plan's answer can hold

channel ID, name, description, subscribers, videos count, views count, profile picture, banner image, joined, country

## ByCrawl's plans (4)

- [ByCrawl, $9 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/bycrawl/9-monthly/llms.txt): $18.00 per 1,000, 45% complete
- [ByCrawl, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/bycrawl/29-monthly/llms.txt): $11.60 per 1,000, 45% complete
- [ByCrawl, $79 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/bycrawl/79-monthly/llms.txt): $10.533 per 1,000, 45% complete
- [ByCrawl, $159 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/bycrawl/159-monthly/llms.txt): $10.60 per 1,000, 45% complete

## ByCrawl's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /youtube/channels/{channelId}`: [ByCrawl, $9 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/bycrawl/9-monthly/llms.txt)

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## ByCrawl: YouTube channel API alternatives

- [Supadata, $60 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/supadata/60-yearly/llms.txt): $16.667 per 1,000, 45% complete
- [Influencers.club, $858 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/influencers-club/858-monthly/llms.txt): $17.16 per 1,000, 55% complete, live
- [KeyAPI, $59 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/keyapi/59-monthly/llms.txt): $17.70 per 1,000, 36% complete, live
- [Monocrawl, $19 pack, 5,000 credits, GET /v1/youtube/profile/full](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/monocrawl/19-pack-5000-credits-get-v1-youtube-profile-full/llms.txt): $19.00 per 1,000, 45% complete

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-05.

- https://www.bycrawl.com/en/docs/api-reference?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://www.bycrawl.com/en/docs/api-reference/linkedin?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://www.bycrawl.com/en/docs/api-reference/youtube?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://www.bycrawl.com/en/docs/error-codes?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://www.bycrawl.com/en/docs/getting-started?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://www.bycrawl.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://www.bycrawl.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing