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Scrapingdog pricing and alternatives: YouTube channel API

Scrapingdog's sitellms.txtBest YouTube channel API in 2026

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55% complete: 6 of the 11 key fields we checkSee the 11 fields
$0.00per 1,000 channelsWe rank 127 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 HasData are the best YouTube channel API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of Scrapingdog's 56 plans
Call: GET /youtube/channel Scrapingdog's only call for this API
API: YouTube channel API one of Scrapingdog's 12 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 6 of the 11 key fields we check. Bio, Photo, Links, Followers, Posts, Views.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 100 credits, enough for 20 calls.
  • One call. You send channel_id to GET /youtube/channel. You can also send country and language. The call returns the channel's details.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Scrapingdog: YouTube channel API alternatives

The table starts with Scrapingdog's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 channels closest to Scrapingdog's.

Scrapingdog, $300,000 yearlyAnyAPI, free trial keyFetchLayer, $900 monthlyLitescrape, top-up from $10Scrappa, $1,000 packSocialCrawl, £299 pack, Pro, POST /v1/youtube/channels
$ per 1,000 channels$0.114$0.00$0.017$0.15$0.20$0.266
Completeness55%55%73%73%64%73%
Billingyearlyfreemonthlypay firstpay firstpay first
Pay$300,000$0$900$10$1,000£299
Enough for220,000,000 calls a monthabout 111 calls, once54,432,000 calls a month66,667 calls5,000,000 calls1,500,000 results
Freshnessunknownunknownliveunknownunknownlive
Who can get itanyoneanyone 18 or over, with no account, for business or professional use, not in an embargoed jurisdiction or on a restricted-party listanyone at least 18 years old (or the age of legal majority in their jurisdiction, if higher)anyoneanyone 18 or overanyone 18 or over

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 2026-10-29.

  1. scrapingdog.com/documentation/
  2. scrapingdog.com/documentation/youtube-channel-api/
  3. scrapingdog.com/linkedin-scraper-api/
  4. scrapingdog.com/llms.txt
  5. scrapingdog.com/pricing/
  6. scrapingdog.com/terms/

Product details

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

  • Bio
  • Photo
  • Links
  • Contact, not in the answer
  • Location, not in the answer
  • 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: 60 other calls
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchThe YouTube Channel API lets you scrape comprehensive channel data including about info, subscriber counts, video sections, and YouTube Shorts.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use dataWhile your paid subscription is active, Scrapingdog grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide license to access, store, display, analyze, and redistribute, commercially or otherwise, the publicly available data returned by Scrapingdog’s API (“Licensed Data”) [...] You may present, transform, or combine the Licensed Data in any manner, provided that you do not add or alter data points in a way that would misrepresent the information actually returned by Scrapingdog’s API or cause harm to third parties [...] You agree not to use any data obtained through Scrapingdog in a manner that (a) discloses private or sensitive personal information, or (b) harms individual or public sentiments, violates applicable laws, or otherwise causes injury.
Plan
Pay$0
You get100 credits
Enough for20 calls
Rate limit
Concurrent1
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendchannel_id. Optional: country, language
MethodGET
Path/youtube/channel
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 19 fields the plan's answer can hold

channel ID, name, handle, bio, subscribers text, videos count text, views count text, joined, joined text, external links, website, keywords, tags, profile picture, banner image, family safe, featured video, latest videos, latest shorts

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