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Scrappa pricing and alternatives: YouTube channel API

Scrappa's sitellms.txtBest YouTube channel API in 2026
64% complete: 7 of the 11 key fields we checkSee the 11 fields
$0.00per 1,000 channelsWe rank 103 plans by price. Litescrape's top-up from $10 is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 channels: $0.15.Litescrape, HasData and ScrapeCreators are the best YouTube channel API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of Scrappa's 11 plans
Call: GET /api/youtube/channel Scrappa's only call for this API
API: YouTube channel API one of Scrappa's 19 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 7 of the 11 key fields we check. Bio, Photo, Location, Verified, Followers, Posts, Views.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 500 requests a month.
  • One call. You send one of channel_id or channelId to GET /api/youtube/channel. The call returns the channel's details.
  • Who can get it: anyone 18 or over. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Scrappa: YouTube channel API alternatives

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

Scrappa, $1,000 packYouTube Data API (Google), freeLitescrape, top-up from $10SocialCrawl, £299 pack, Pro, POST /v1/youtube/channelsScrapeBadger, $36,000 yearlylobstr.io, $4,800 yearly, Team, POST /v1/runs, YouTube Channel Scraper
$ per 1,000 channels$0.20$0.00$0.15$0.266$0.30$0.40
Completeness64%55%73%73%73%82%
Billingpay firstfreepay firstpay firstyearlyyearly
Pay$1,000$0$10£299$36,000$4,800
Enough for5,000,000 calls5,000 calls a day66,667 calls1,500,000 results10,000,000 calls a month1,000,000 results a month
Freshnessunknownliveunknownliveunknownlive
Who can get itanyone 18 or overanyone of legal age and not barred by law, with a Google Account and a Google Cloud project that has the YouTube Data API enabledanyoneanyone 18 or overanyone 18 or overprofessionals, not consumers

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. scrappa.co/apis/linkedin-api
  2. scrappa.co/docs/api.json
  3. scrappa.co/docs/error-handling
  4. scrappa.co/docs/youtube-api/youtube_channel
  5. scrappa.co/legal/terms-of-service
  6. scrappa.co/pricing

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
  • 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: 2,378 other calls
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchGet channel information including subscriber count, video count, and description.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use dataSubject to these Terms, we permit you to use API output lawfully obtained through your account in your own commercial or non-commercial applications, websites, and reports. This includes storing and caching output, displaying it to your users, linking to original sources, combining and comparing it with other data, and performing analytics, including AI-assisted analysis. [...] Reselling API output as a standalone dataset or data feed, or reselling access to the Service, requires our written authorization. [...] Public availability and delivery through the API do not, by themselves, establish a right to reuse content. [...] You are responsible for establishing a lawful basis for your use, obtaining any permissions required, and complying with applicable laws and third-party terms that legally apply to your use. This includes any applicable attribution, retention, deletion, redistribution, and AI or text-and-data-mining restrictions. [...] You agree not to: Use the Service for any illegal purpose or in violation of any laws, Violate or infringe upon the rights of others, Attempt to reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Service, Interfere with or disrupt the Service or servers connected to the Service, Resell or redistribute API output outside the application uses permitted by Section 8 without our written authorization, Use the Service to scrape or collect data in violation of third-party terms of service that legally apply to your use, Attempt to gain unauthorized access to any portion of the Service
Plan
Pay$0
You get500 requests a month
Enough for500 calls a month
Rate limit
Concurrentno limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
Median1.24 s
The call
You sendone of channel_id or channelId
MethodGET
Path/api/youtube/channel
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone 18 or over
The 11 fields the plan's answer can hold

channel ID, name, bio, subscribers text, videos count text, views count text, profile picture, banner image, country, verified, joined

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