# SignalQub, free: YouTube channel API

> Extract detailed public metadata for a specific YouTube channel. Retrieves subscriber counts, total views, channel descriptions, verified status, and profile/banner imagery.

SignalQub's YouTube channel API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 channels. It returns 5 of the 11 key fields we check: Bio, Photo, Verified, Followers, Views.
We rank 242 plans by price. [Serpent API's top-up from $500](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/serpent-api/top-up-from-500/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 channels: $0.01.
[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 our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/signalqub/free
- [Best YouTube channel API in 2026: pricing compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-youtube-channel-api.txt)
- Get it: https://signalqub.com/pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.signalqub.com/v1/youtube/channel`
- API key: with the plan, on https://signalqub.com/pricing
- Its API docs: https://signalqub.com/endpoints/youtube/channel-details-api
- Sold by: SignalQub (https://signalqub.com)
- Checked: 2026-11-01

## In the answer

- Completeness: 45%
- Bio: ✓
- Photo: ✓
- Verified: ✓
- Followers: ✓
- Views: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 85 other calls

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Extract detailed public metadata for a specific YouTube channel. Retrieves subscriber counts, total views, channel descriptions, verified status, and profile/banner imagery.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You agree to use the Services only for lawful purposes. You shall not: Use the API to extract data that is protected by copyright, trade secret, or other intellectual property laws without the explicit right to do so. Extract sensitive personal data, non-public information, or data behind authenticated login walls where you lack authorization. Attempt to bypass rate limits, manipulate billing, or execute distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against SignalQub or our target platforms. Resell, sub-license, or redistribute your SignalQub API keys to unauthorized third parties.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 credits
- Enough for: 100 calls
- Expires: never

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: one of channelId, handle, url or q. Optional: cache_max_age
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/youtube/channel

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 13 fields the plan's answer can hold

success, credits remaining, credits consumed, channel ID, name, handle, subscribers, views count, bio, profile picture, banner image, verified, joined

## SignalQub's plans (5)

- [SignalQub, free](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/signalqub/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 45% complete, live
- [SignalQub, $19 pack](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/signalqub/19-pack/llms.txt): $3.454 per 1,000, 45% complete, live
- [SignalQub, $43 pack](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/signalqub/43-pack/llms.txt): $2.15 per 1,000, 45% complete, live
- [SignalQub, $448 pack](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/signalqub/448-pack/llms.txt): $1.28 per 1,000, 45% complete, live
- [SignalQub, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/signalqub/contact-us/llms.txt): 45% complete, live

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

- `GET /v1/youtube/channel`: [SignalQub, free](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/signalqub/free/llms.txt)

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- [SignalQub: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 9 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/signalqub/free-basic/llms.txt)

## SignalQub: YouTube channel API alternatives

- [Anysite, $549 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/anysite/549-monthly/llms.txt): $1.292 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [Bright Data, $499 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/bright-data/499-monthly/llms.txt): $1.30 per 1,000, 64% complete, live
- [FetchLayer, $100 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/fetchlayer/100-monthly/llms.txt): $1.333 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [ReefAPI, $200 monthly, Enterprise monthly, POST /youtube/v1/channel_about](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/reefapi/200-monthly-enterprise-monthly-post-youtube-v1-channel-about/llms.txt): $1.333 per 1,000, 55% 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 2026-11-01.

- https://rapidapi.com/signalqub-signalqub-default/api/real-time-linkedin-scraper-data-extractor
- https://rapidapi.com/signalqub-signalqub-default/api/real-time-linkedin-scraper-data-extractor/pricing
- https://rapidapi.com/terms
- https://signalqub.com/
- https://signalqub.com/endpoints/amazon
- https://signalqub.com/endpoints/facebook
- https://signalqub.com/endpoints/facebook-ads
- https://signalqub.com/endpoints/facebook-marketplace
- https://signalqub.com/endpoints/gmaps
- https://signalqub.com/endpoints/google
- https://signalqub.com/endpoints/instagram
- https://signalqub.com/endpoints/linkedin
- https://signalqub.com/endpoints/linkedin-ads
- https://signalqub.com/endpoints/reddit
- https://signalqub.com/endpoints/threads
- https://signalqub.com/endpoints/tiktok
- https://signalqub.com/endpoints/tiktok-shop
- https://signalqub.com/endpoints/trustpilot
- https://signalqub.com/endpoints/twitter
- https://signalqub.com/endpoints/yellowpages
- https://signalqub.com/endpoints/youtube
- https://signalqub.com/endpoints/youtube/channel-details-api
- https://signalqub.com/endpoints/zillow
- https://signalqub.com/pricing
- https://signalqub.com/terms-of-use