# ShortsIntel, free: YouTube channel API

> A channel by handle or channel id: subscribers, total views, country, a baseline and its Shorts.

ShortsIntel's Starter Grant plan for the YouTube channel API costs $0.00 per 1,000 channels. ShortsIntel's docs list 10 of the 11 fields on our checklist: Bio, Photo, Contact, Location, Verified, Followers, Following, Posts, Likes, Views.
We haven't run ShortsIntel through [our YouTube channel API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-youtube-channel-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 440 plans for YouTube channel APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.99 per 1,000 channels or less. [See the best free YouTube channel API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-youtube-channel-api.txt)
[Poix's top-up from $5](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/poix/top-up-from-5-pay-as-you-go-post-batch-channels/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 channels: $0.002.
[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 [lobstr.io](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/lobstr-io/500-monthly-team-post-v1-runs-youtube-channel-scraper/llms.txt) are the best YouTube channel API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/shortsintel/free
- [YouTube channel API: the 13 best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-youtube-channel-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.shortsintel.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://www.shortsintel.com/v1/creators/{platform}/{handle}`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.shortsintel.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://www.shortsintel.com/docs/reference/creators/get-creator?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- Sold by: ShortsIntel (https://www.shortsintel.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

- Completeness: 91%
- Bio: ✓
- Photo: ✓
- Contact: ✓
- Location: ✓
- Verified: ✓
- Followers: ✓
- Following: ✓
- Posts: ✓
- Likes: ✓
- Views: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Research a niche · Refresh a research's videos · Run a Creator Breakdown · Search videos by keyword · Look up a video by URL · Look up a video by id · Analyse a video · Score a video against its creator · Read a video's comments · Read a comment's replies · Page a creator's stored videos · Look up a hashtag's trend · Page a hashtag's videos · Look up a sound's trend · Page a sound's videos · Sample a keyword search · Search ad libraries · Look up a Meta Ad by id · Get a TikTok Ad · Look up an advertiser profile · Start tracking a target · Run a tracker cycle now · Set or clear a tracker's focus · Preview a focus on a tracker

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: A channel by handle or channel id: subscribers, total views, country, a baseline and its Shorts.

## Data

- Freshness: 24 hours
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Derived works are permitted. You may analyse, transform, combine and build on the API output, and you may distribute and commercialise the results [...] Reselling the raw data is not permitted. You may not: resell, sublicense, redistribute or otherwise make available the raw records or bulk API output as a data product, feed, export or dataset, whether for a fee or free of charge, republish raw records in bulk, or mirror, replicate or reconstruct the ShortsIntel corpus or any substantial part of it, including by systematic enumeration of the API, use the API or its output to build, train or operate a substitute for the Service, or a competing short-form video data service, use the output to identify, target, profile, score or make decisions about individual people, including creators and commenters, or to enable anyone else to do so, remove, obscure or misrepresent the provenance of data obtained through the Service where you are permitted to display it. Upstream restrictions pass through. [...] Where those providers or platforms impose restrictions on the use, retention or redistribution of that data, those restrictions apply to you as well

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 credits
- Enough for: about 166 calls, once
- Expires: 90 days

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Concurrent: 10
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call or by polling

## The call

- You send: platform "youtube", handle. Optional: include, videos_from, cursor, wait, max_credits, estimate
- Method: GET
- Path: /creators/{platform}/{handle}

## About the plan

- Plan: Starter Grant
- Who can get it: anyone who signs up

## The 24 fields the plan's answer can hold

platform, channel ID, handle, name, profile picture, subscribers, bio, verified, videos count, likes count, following, links, joined, country, business account, views count, contact email, email source, median views, average engagement rate, uploads per week, p90 views, baseline confidence, baseline sample size

## ShortsIntel's plans (5)

- [ShortsIntel, free](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/shortsintel/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 91% complete, 24 hours
- [ShortsIntel, $10 pack](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/shortsintel/10-pack/llms.txt): $6.00 per 1,000, 91% complete, 24 hours
- [ShortsIntel, $20 pack](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/shortsintel/20-pack/llms.txt): $6.00 per 1,000, 91% complete, 24 hours
- [ShortsIntel, $50 pack](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/shortsintel/50-pack/llms.txt): $6.00 per 1,000, 91% complete, 24 hours
- [ShortsIntel, $100 pack](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/shortsintel/100-pack/llms.txt): $6.00 per 1,000, 91% complete, 24 hours

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

- `GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}`: [ShortsIntel, free](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/shortsintel/free/llms.txt)

## ShortsIntel's APIs (11)

- [ShortsIntel: Facebook Ad Library API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/shortsintel/free/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: Facebook page API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-page-apis/shortsintel/free/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: Instagram profile API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/shortsintel/free/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: TikTok Ad Library API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-ad-apis/shortsintel/free/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: TikTok profile API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/shortsintel/free/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: video search API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/shortsintel/free/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: YouTube channel API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/shortsintel/free/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: Facebook post API pricing, 5 plans, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-post-apis/shortsintel/free-starter-grant-get-creators-platform-handle/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: Facebook post API pricing, 5 plans, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}/videos](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-post-apis/shortsintel/free-starter-grant-get-creators-platform-handle-videos/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: Instagram post API pricing, 5 plans, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/shortsintel/free-starter-grant-get-creators-platform-handle/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: Instagram post API pricing, 5 plans, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}/videos](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/shortsintel/free-starter-grant-get-creators-platform-handle-videos/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: TikTok video API pricing, 5 plans, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-video-apis/shortsintel/free-starter-grant-get-creators-platform-handle/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: TikTok video API pricing, 5 plans, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}/videos](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-video-apis/shortsintel/free-starter-grant-get-creators-platform-handle-videos/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: YouTube channel video API pricing, 5 plans, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/shortsintel/free-starter-grant-get-creators-platform-handle/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: YouTube channel video API pricing, 5 plans, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}/videos](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/shortsintel/free-starter-grant-get-creators-platform-handle-videos/llms.txt)

## ShortsIntel: YouTube channel API alternatives

- [Captapi, $275 pack](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/captapi/275-pack/llms.txt): $5.50 per 1,000, 82% complete, live
- [DataBlue, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/datablue/29-monthly/llms.txt): $5.80 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [CreatorCrawl, $29 pack](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/creatorcrawl/29-pack/llms.txt): $5.80 per 1,000, 91% complete, live
- [lobstr.io, $4,800 yearly, Team, POST /v1/runs, YouTube Channel Scraper, full](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/lobstr-io/4800-yearly-team-post-v1-runs-youtube-channel-scraper-full/llms.txt): $6.00 per 1,000, 82% 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 2026-11-07.

- https://www.shortsintel.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://www.shortsintel.com/docs/concepts/authentication-and-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://www.shortsintel.com/docs/concepts/pricing-and-estimates?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://www.shortsintel.com/openapi.v1.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://www.shortsintel.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://www.shortsintel.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://www.shortsintel.com/youtube-shorts-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing