LurkAPI pricing: YouTube channel API
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64% complete: 7 of the 11 key fields we checkSee the 11 fields
$0.00per 1,000 channelsWe haven't run LurkAPI through our YouTube channel API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 340 plans for YouTube channel APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.92 per 1,000 channels or less.Serpent API's top-up from $500 is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 channels: $0.01.YouTube Data API (Google), Litescrape and lobstr.io are the best YouTube channel API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: Free credits one of LurkAPI's 4 plans
- FreeFree credits$0.00 per 1,000
- $9 packStarter$0.90 per 1,000
- $59 packGrowth$0.59 per 1,000
- $225 packScale$0.45 per 1,000
Call:
GET / LurkAPI's only call for this APIAPI: YouTube channel API one of LurkAPI's 37 APIs
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- YouTube channel API
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- Web scraping API
GET /v1/ web/ residential - Web scraping API
GET /v1/ web/ fetch - Web scraping API
GET /v1/ web/ render - Web scraping API
GET /v1/ web/ render-residential - Web scraping API
GET /v1/ web/ unblock
About this item
- A copy at most 6 hours old. You get channels from LurkAPI's copy of YouTube.
- 7 of the 11 key fields we check. Photo, Links, Contact, Location, Verified, Followers, Posts.
- Nothing to pay. You get 100 credits, enough for 100 calls.
- One call. You call
GET /. You send one ofv1/ youtube/ channel channelId,handleorurl. The call returns the channel's details. - Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
LurkAPI: YouTube channel API alternatives
LurkAPI alternatives: every YouTube channel API provider ranked
The table starts with LurkAPI's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 channels closest to LurkAPI's. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most a day old.
| LurkAPI, $225 pack | lobstr.io, $4,800 yearly, Team, POST /v1/runs, YouTube Channel Scraper | Omkar Cloud, $48 monthly | Upscrape, $49 pack | ReefAPI, $450 quarterly, Enterprise quarterly, POST /youtube/v1/channel | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 channels | $0.45 | $0.40 | $0.48 | $0.49 | $0.50 |
| Completeness | 64% | 82% | 73% | 27% | 45% |
| Billing | pay first | yearly | monthly | pay first | quarterly |
| Pay | $225 | $4,800 | $48 | $49 | $450 |
| Enough for | 500,000 calls | 1,000,000 results a month | 100,000 calls a month | 100,000 calls | 300,000 calls a month |
| Freshness | 6 hours | live | live | live | live |
| Who can get it | anyone | professionals, not consumers | anyone aged 18 or over who is not in a country under a United States embargo or on a United States list of prohibited or restricted parties | anyone at least 18 years old and legally capable of entering the terms | anyone |
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.
Product details
The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.
- Bio, not in the answer
- Photo
- Links
- Contact
- Location
- Verified
- Followers
- Following, not in the answer
- Posts
- Likes, not in the answer
- Views, not in the answer
| $ per 1,000 channels | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Per | call |
| Billing | free |
| Also pays for | from the same budget: 87 other calls |
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| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | A channel's subscribers, total views, video count, join date, country, links and description. |
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| Freshness | 6 hours |
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| Keep data | no limit |
| Use data | Fair use: Don't try to break, overload or get around the limits of the service. Don't share or resell your API keys. Building your own products on top of LurkAPI is fine. Don't use LurkAPI to harass people or for anything illegal. [...] LurkAPI returns publicly available data. You're responsible for how you use it, including the privacy and data protection laws that apply to you. |
| Pay | $0 |
|---|---|
| You get | 100 credits |
| Enough for | 100 calls |
| Per second | 5 |
|---|---|
| Batch | 1 |
| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | one of channelId, handle or url |
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| Method | GET |
| Path | /v1/youtube/channel |
| Plan | Free credits |
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| Who can get it | anyone |
The 19 fields the plan's answer can hold
channel ID, handle, name, description, avatar, banner image, verified, family safe, subscribers, videos count, total views, joined, country, email, external links, X link, Instagram link, tags, keywords