# Scrappa, free: YouTube channel API

> Get channel information including subscriber count, video count, and description.

Scrappa's YouTube channel API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 channels. It returns 7 of the 11 key fields we check: Bio, Photo, Location, Verified, 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/scrappa/free
- [Best YouTube channel API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-youtube-channel-api.txt)
- Get it: https://scrappa.co/pricing
- Request: `GET https://scrappa.co/api/youtube/channel`
- API key: with the plan, on https://scrappa.co/pricing
- Its API docs: https://scrappa.co/docs/youtube-api/youtube_channel
- Sold by: Scrappa (https://scrappa.co)
- Checked: 2026-10-29

## In the answer

- Completeness: 64%
- Bio: ✓
- Photo: ✓
- Location: ✓
- Verified: ✓
- Followers: ✓
- Posts: ✓
- Views: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 2,378 other calls

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Get channel information including subscriber count, video count, and description.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Subject 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 get: 500 requests a month
- Enough for: 500 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Concurrent: no limit
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 1.24 s

## The call

- You send: one of channel_id or channelId
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/youtube/channel

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone 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

## Scrappa's plans (11)

- [Scrappa, free](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrappa/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 64% complete
- [Scrappa, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrappa/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 64% complete
- [Scrappa, $10 pack](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrappa/10-pack/llms.txt): $0.303 per 1,000, 64% complete
- [Scrappa, $25 pack](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrappa/25-pack/llms.txt): $0.291 per 1,000, 64% complete
- [Scrappa, $50 pack](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrappa/50-pack/llms.txt): $0.278 per 1,000, 64% complete
- [Scrappa, $100 pack](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrappa/100-pack/llms.txt): $0.27 per 1,000, 64% complete
- [Scrappa, $250 pack](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrappa/250-pack/llms.txt): $0.25 per 1,000, 64% complete
- [Scrappa, $500 pack](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrappa/500-pack/llms.txt): $0.238 per 1,000, 64% complete
- [Scrappa, $750 pack](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrappa/750-pack/llms.txt): $0.227 per 1,000, 64% complete
- [Scrappa, $1,000 pack](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrappa/1000-pack/llms.txt): $0.20 per 1,000, 64% complete
- [Scrappa, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrappa/contact-us/llms.txt): 64% complete

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

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

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## Scrappa: YouTube channel API alternatives

- [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
- [Scrapingdog, $6,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapingdog/6000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.20 per 1,000, 55% 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
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## 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://scrappa.co/apis/linkedin-api
- https://scrappa.co/docs/api.json
- https://scrappa.co/docs/error-handling
- https://scrappa.co/docs/youtube-api/youtube_channel
- https://scrappa.co/legal/terms-of-service
- https://scrappa.co/pricing