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Refetcher pricing and alternatives: YouTube channel API

Refetcher's sitellms.txtBest YouTube channel API in 2026: pricing comparedRefetcher: YouTube channel API alternatives

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55% complete: 6 of the 11 key fields we checkSee the 11 fields
$0.00per 1,000 channelsWe rank 190 plans by price. Litescrape's top-up from $10 is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 channels: $0.15.YouTube Data API (Google), Litescrape and lobstr.io are the best YouTube channel API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free trial one of Refetcher's 4 plans
Call: POST / Refetcher's only call for this API
API: YouTube channel API one of Refetcher's 11 APIs

About this item

  • Live. You get the channel from YouTube when you call the API.
  • 6 of the 11 key fields we check. Bio, Photo, Location, Followers, Posts, Views.
  • Nothing to pay. You get $2.70 of credit, enough for 3,000 calls. Calls stop once your credit runs out.
  • One call. You call POST /. You send one of url, handle, channelId or urls. You set platform to "youtube". The call returns the details of each channel you send.
  • Who can get it: anyone, or acting for an organization they have the authority to bind. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Refetcher: YouTube channel API alternatives

The table starts with Refetcher's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 channels closest to Refetcher's. Each plan in the table gives live data.

Refetcher, top-up from $500lobstr.io, $960 yearly, Pro, POST /v1/runs, YouTube Channel ScraperSocialCrawl, £15 pack, Starter, POST /v1/youtube/channelsHasData, $249 monthlyTikHub, top-up from $15,000
$ per 1,000 channels$0.818$0.80$0.80$0.83$0.833
Completeness55%82%73%55%73%
Billingpay firstyearlypay firstmonthlypay first
Pay$500$960£15$249$15,000
Enough forabout 611,111 calls100,000 results a month25,000 results300,000 calls a month18,000,000 calls
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone, or acting for an organization they have the authority to bindprofessionals, not consumersanyone 18 or overanyoneanyone 18 or over (or of legal age where they live), for lawful internal business purposes, not in a US-embargoed country or on a US restricted-party list, onboarded by TikHub on request with the company's name, address and contact

Every YouTube channel API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-31.

  1. refetcher.com
  2. refetcher.com/docs
  3. refetcher.com/llms.txt
  4. refetcher.com/pricing
  5. refetcher.com/terms
  6. refetcher.com/youtube-scraper-api

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Bio
  • Photo
  • Links, not in the answer
  • Contact, not in the answer
  • Location
  • Verified, not in the answer
  • Followers
  • Following, not in the answer
  • Posts
  • Likes, not in the answer
  • Views
Price
$ per 1,000 channels$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Instagram Post/Reel · Instagram Profile · Instagram Comments · TikTok Video/Carousel · TikTok Profile · TikTok Comments & Replies · Facebook Post/Reel · Facebook Profile · X Post · X Profile · YouTube Video · YouTube Comments & Replies
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchSubscribers, total views and video count for any public channel
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataSubject to your full compliance with these Terms, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and query the Refetch(er) scraper API solely to retrieve public, unmodified post metrics for your applications. [...] Third-Party Compliance: You acknowledge that web scraping may violate the terms of service of third-party platforms. You are solely responsible for ensuring your use of this API complies with the laws and terms of the platforms you target. [...] You agree that you will not, and will not permit any third party to: Use the API to scrape, access, or extract non-public, private, or restricted social media contents (such as posts from private accounts or direct messages). [...] Query the Service in any manner that executes denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, attempts to overload our dispatcher system, or otherwise degrades Service performance for other customers. [...] Bypass, disable, or circumvent any security-related features, authentication hashes, or usage boundaries enforced on your API keys or control panel dashboard. [...] Use the Service to build a competing real-time social media scraping API product or database mirror. [...] Incorporate the Service into any applications that facilitate harassment, spam, copyright infringement, or illegal surveillance. [...] Reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or attempt to discover the source code, object code, or underlying structure, ideas, or algorithms of the Service or its scraping dispatchers.
Plan
Pay$0
You get$2.70
Enough for3,000 calls
Rate limit
Concurrentno limit
Batch10
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendone of url, handle, channelId or urls, platform "youtube"
MethodPOST
Path/
About the plan
PlanFree trial
Who can get itanyone, or acting for an organization they have the authority to bind
The 17 fields the plan's answer can hold

success, platform, channel URL, scraped at, request ID, channel ID, handle, name, bio, subscribers, hidden subscriber count, views count, videos count, country, joined, profile picture, uploads playlist ID

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