# ChannelCrawler, $24 pack, 100 credits, POST /v1/channels/search, Channel Discovery, full: YouTube channel API

> Full channel search with 70+ filters. Get channel data, URLs, emails, engagement metrics, social handles and more.

ChannelCrawler's 100 credits plan for the YouTube channel API costs $240.00 per 1,000 channels. ChannelCrawler's docs list 4 of the 11 fields on our checklist: Links, Contact, Followers, Views.
We haven't run ChannelCrawler through [our YouTube channel API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-youtube-channel-api.txt) yet.
Half of the 440 plans we rank by price cost $1.99 per 1,000 channels or less. This plan costs less per 1,000 channels than 5% of the 440 plans.
[Poix's top-up from $5](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/poix/top-up-from-5-pay-as-you-go-post-batch-channels/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 channels: $0.002.
[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/channelcrawler/24-pack-100-credits-post-v1-channels-search-channel-discovery-full
- [YouTube channel API: the 13 best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-youtube-channel-api.txt)
- Get it: https://channelcrawler.com/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.channelcrawler.com/v1/channels/search`, Channel Discovery, full
- API key: with the plan, on https://channelcrawler.com/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.channelcrawler.com/api-reference/channels-search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- Sold by: ChannelCrawler (https://channelcrawler.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

- Completeness: 36%
- Links: ✓
- Contact: ✓
- Followers: ✓
- Views: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 channels: $240.00
- Per: result
- Billing: pay first

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Priority Channel Resolve · Channels — Videos · Channels — Timestamps

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Full channel search with 70+ filters. Get channel data, URLs, emails, engagement metrics, social handles and more.

## Data

- Freshness: 1 day
- Keep data: limited-term licence, no period stated
- Use data: [...] we grant to you a limited-term, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable, worldwide licence for the Permitted Use only, to: 5.1.1 access and view the Data and create Derived Data, 5.1.2 store the Data and Manipulated Data on the Customer System, and 5.1.3 distribute the Data and Manipulated Data to the Authorised User using a Customer System to access the Site or Data. 5.2 Except as expressly provided in these Terms of Service, you shall not: 5.2.1 use the Data (wholly or in part) in your products or services, or 5.2.2 redistribute the Data (wholly or in part). [...] Permitted Use: business analytical use only (which shall not include the use of the Data and Manipulated Data by, or for the benefit of, any person other than you or your employees). [...] Unauthorised Use: any use of the Data which is not a Permitted Use. This includes, but is not limited to, selling the Data to third parties or making the Data available to the public or any person who is not a Customer User. [...] The Customer agrees to use the Services in good faith for the purposes that they are provided and the Customer shall not or attempt to do any of the following. [...] 6.3.2 Resell or repurpose its access to the Site or the Services without our prior written consent.

## Plan

- Pay: $24
- You get: 100 credits
- Enough for: 100 results

## Rate limit

- Batch: 10,000

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: include_email true. Optional: channel_ids, imports_include, external_url, external_url__contains, exclude_channel_ids, imports_exclude, ai_category, language, country, q, total_subscribers_min, engagement_last_videos, engagement_rate_min, has_email, sort, limit, cursor
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/channels/search

## About the plan

- Plan: 100 credits
- Who can get it: anyone aged 16 or over

## The 16 fields the plan's answer can hold

channel ID, channel URL, name, handle, subscribers, views count, category, social links, average views, average engagement rate, uploads per week, growth stats, has email, next cursor, credits consumed, email

## ChannelCrawler's plans (4)

- [ChannelCrawler, $24 pack, 100 credits, POST /v1/channels/search, Channel Discovery, full](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/channelcrawler/24-pack-100-credits-post-v1-channels-search-channel-discovery-full/llms.txt): $240.00 per 1,000, 36% complete, 1 day
- [ChannelCrawler, $900 pack, Growth, POST /v1/channels/search, Channel Discovery, full](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/channelcrawler/900-pack-growth-post-v1-channels-search-channel-discovery-full/llms.txt): $180.00 per 1,000, 36% complete, 1 day
- [ChannelCrawler, $5,000 pack, Scale, POST /v1/channels/search, Channel Discovery, full](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/channelcrawler/5000-pack-scale-post-v1-channels-search-channel-discovery-full/llms.txt): $100.00 per 1,000, 36% complete, 1 day
- [ChannelCrawler, contact us, Bulk credits, POST /v1/channels/search, Channel Discovery, full](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/channelcrawler/contact-us-bulk-credits-post-v1-channels-search-channel-discovery-full/llms.txt): 36% complete, 1 day

## ChannelCrawler's calls for this API (2)

- `POST /v1/channels/search`, Channel Discovery: [ChannelCrawler, $24 pack, 100 credits, POST /v1/channels/search, Channel Discovery](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/channelcrawler/24-pack-100-credits-post-v1-channels-search-channel-discovery/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/channels/search`, Channel Discovery, full: [ChannelCrawler, $24 pack, 100 credits, POST /v1/channels/search, Channel Discovery, full](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/channelcrawler/24-pack-100-credits-post-v1-channels-search-channel-discovery-full/llms.txt)

## ChannelCrawler's APIs (2)

- [ChannelCrawler: YouTube channel video API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/channelcrawler/24-pack/llms.txt)
- [ChannelCrawler: YouTube channel API pricing, 4 plans, POST /v1/channels/search, Channel Discovery, full](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/channelcrawler/24-pack-100-credits-post-v1-channels-search-channel-discovery-full/llms.txt)

## ChannelCrawler: YouTube channel API alternatives

- [Janney AI, $599 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/janney-ai/599-monthly/llms.txt): $39.933 per 1,000, 91% complete, live
- [SocialCrawl, £15 pack, Starter, GET /v1/youtube/profile/full](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/socialcrawl/15-pack-starter-get-v1-youtube-profile-full/llms.txt): $40.005 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [StableSocial, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/stablesocial/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $60.00 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [Social Blade, $1,250 pack](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/social-blade/1250-pack/llms.txt): $250.00 per 1,000, 55% complete, 24 hours

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-07.

- https://channelcrawler.com/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://channelcrawler.com/insights/insights/channelcrawler-downloads-explained-emails-summaries-and-credits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://channelcrawler.com/insights/youtube-channel-search-api-find-channels-with-filters-real-time-lookup-channelcrawler?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://channelcrawler.com/pages/tos?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://docs.channelcrawler.com/api-reference/channels-search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://docs.channelcrawler.com/getting-started/authentication?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing