# Scrapingdog, free: YouTube channel API

> The YouTube Channel API lets you scrape comprehensive channel data including about info, subscriber counts, video sections, and YouTube Shorts.

Scrapingdog's YouTube channel API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 channels. It returns 6 of the 11 key fields we check: Bio, Photo, Links, Followers, Posts, Views.
We rank 127 plans by price. [Litescrape's top-up from $10](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/litescrape/top-up-from-10/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 channels: $0.15.
[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 [HasData](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/hasdata/249-monthly/llms.txt) are the best YouTube channel API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapingdog/free
- [Best YouTube channel API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-youtube-channel-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.scrapingdog.com/pricing/
- Request: `GET https://api.scrapingdog.com/youtube/channel`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.scrapingdog.com/pricing/
- Its API docs: https://www.scrapingdog.com/documentation/youtube-channel-api/
- Sold by: Scrapingdog (https://www.scrapingdog.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-29

## In the answer

- Completeness: 55%
- Bio: ✓
- Photo: ✓
- Links: ✓
- Followers: ✓
- Posts: ✓
- Views: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 channels: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 60 other calls

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: The YouTube Channel API lets you scrape comprehensive channel data including about info, subscriber counts, video sections, and YouTube Shorts.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: While 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 get: 100 credits
- Enough for: 20 calls

## Rate limit

- Concurrent: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: channel_id. Optional: country, language
- Method: GET
- Path: /youtube/channel

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## 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

## Scrapingdog's plans (56)

- [Scrapingdog, free](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapingdog/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 55% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $40 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapingdog/40-monthly/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 55% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $90 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapingdog/90-monthly/llms.txt): $0.45 per 1,000, 55% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $200 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapingdog/200-monthly/llms.txt): $0.333 per 1,000, 55% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $350 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapingdog/350-monthly/llms.txt): $0.292 per 1,000, 55% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $500 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapingdog/500-monthly/llms.txt): $0.278 per 1,000, 55% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $1,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapingdog/1000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.263 per 1,000, 55% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $1,500 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapingdog/1500-monthly/llms.txt): $0.259 per 1,000, 55% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $2,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapingdog/2000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.238 per 1,000, 55% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $2,500 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapingdog/2500-monthly/llms.txt): $0.227 per 1,000, 55% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $3,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapingdog/3000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.231 per 1,000, 55% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $4,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapingdog/4000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.222 per 1,000, 55% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $5,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapingdog/5000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.208 per 1,000, 55% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $6,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapingdog/6000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.20 per 1,000, 55% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $7,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapingdog/7000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.189 per 1,000, 55% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $8,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapingdog/8000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.182 per 1,000, 55% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $9,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapingdog/9000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.176 per 1,000, 55% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $10,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapingdog/10000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.17 per 1,000, 55% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $12,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapingdog/12000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.167 per 1,000, 55% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $14,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapingdog/14000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.163 per 1,000, 55% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $16,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapingdog/16000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.16 per 1,000, 55% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $18,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapingdog/18000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.155 per 1,000, 55% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $20,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapingdog/20000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.151 per 1,000, 55% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $22,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapingdog/22000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.149 per 1,000, 55% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $24,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapingdog/24000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.145 per 1,000, 55% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $26,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapingdog/26000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.141 per 1,000, 55% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $28,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapingdog/28000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.139 per 1,000, 55% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $30,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapingdog/30000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.136 per 1,000, 55% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $400 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapingdog/400-yearly/llms.txt): $0.833 per 1,000, 55% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $900 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapingdog/900-yearly/llms.txt): $0.375 per 1,000, 55% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $2,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapingdog/2000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.278 per 1,000, 55% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $3,500 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapingdog/3500-yearly/llms.txt): $0.243 per 1,000, 55% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $5,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapingdog/5000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.232 per 1,000, 55% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $10,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapingdog/10000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.219 per 1,000, 55% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $15,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapingdog/15000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.215 per 1,000, 55% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $20,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapingdog/20000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.198 per 1,000, 55% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $25,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapingdog/25000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.189 per 1,000, 55% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $30,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapingdog/30000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.192 per 1,000, 55% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $40,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapingdog/40000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.185 per 1,000, 55% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $50,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapingdog/50000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.174 per 1,000, 55% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $60,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapingdog/60000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.167 per 1,000, 55% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $70,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapingdog/70000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.158 per 1,000, 55% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $80,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapingdog/80000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.151 per 1,000, 55% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $90,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapingdog/90000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.147 per 1,000, 55% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $100,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapingdog/100000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.141 per 1,000, 55% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $120,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapingdog/120000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.139 per 1,000, 55% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $140,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapingdog/140000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.136 per 1,000, 55% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $160,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapingdog/160000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.133 per 1,000, 55% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $180,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapingdog/180000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.129 per 1,000, 55% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $200,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapingdog/200000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.126 per 1,000, 55% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $220,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapingdog/220000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.124 per 1,000, 55% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $240,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapingdog/240000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.120 per 1,000, 55% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $260,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapingdog/260000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.118 per 1,000, 55% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $280,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapingdog/280000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.116 per 1,000, 55% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $300,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapingdog/300000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.114 per 1,000, 55% complete
- [Scrapingdog, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapingdog/contact-us/llms.txt): 55% complete

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

- `GET /youtube/channel`: [Scrapingdog, free](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapingdog/free/llms.txt)

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## Scrapingdog: YouTube channel API alternatives

- [AnyAPI, free trial key](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/anyapi/free-trial-key/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 55% complete
- [FetchLayer, $900 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/fetchlayer/900-monthly/llms.txt): $0.017 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [Litescrape, top-up from $10](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/litescrape/top-up-from-10/llms.txt): $0.15 per 1,000, 73% complete
- [Scrappa, $1,000 pack](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrappa/1000-pack/llms.txt): $0.20 per 1,000, 64% complete
- [SocialCrawl, £299 pack, Pro, POST /v1/youtube/channels](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/socialcrawl/299-pack-pro-post-v1-youtube-channels/llms.txt): $0.266 per 1,000, 73% complete, live

## 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.

- https://www.scrapingdog.com/documentation/
- https://www.scrapingdog.com/documentation/youtube-channel-api/
- https://www.scrapingdog.com/linkedin-scraper-api/
- https://www.scrapingdog.com/llms.txt
- https://www.scrapingdog.com/pricing/
- https://www.scrapingdog.com/terms/