# Tapline, free: YouTube channel API

> Transcripts for any public video, comment threads, search, channels, playlists, and metadata.

Tapline's Free plan for the YouTube channel API costs $0.00 per 1,000 channels. We check each provider's docs for 11 fields. Tapline's docs list 3: Bio, Photo, Followers.
We haven't run Tapline through [our YouTube channel API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-youtube-channel-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 556 plans for YouTube channel APIs by price. Half the plans cost $2.207 or less per 1,000 channels. [135 YouTube channel API plans on our price sheet are free.](https://datacircle.dev/best-youtube-channel-api.txt) [YouTube Data API's free plan](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/youtube-data-api-google/free/llms.txt) scores highest of the free plans in our benchmark, at 90.9 out of 100.
[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. [Zapi's Rp49,000 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/zapi/rp49000-monthly/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 channels a month: about $2.72.
[Socialinsider's $199 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/socialinsider/199-monthly/llms.txt) covers any number of channels, and costs more up front than Poix's top-up from $5.
[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 [TrueScrape](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/truescrape/500-pack/llms.txt) are the best YouTube channel API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/tapline/free
- [YouTube channel API in 2026: the best of 40+ compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-youtube-channel-api.txt)
- Get it: https://tapline.sh/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing#pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.tapline.sh/v1/youtube/channels/{channel_id}`
- API key: with the plan, on https://tapline.sh/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing#pricing
- Its API docs: https://tapline.sh/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- Sold by: Tapline (https://tapline.sh?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-11

## In the answer

- Completeness: 27%
- Bio: ✓
- Photo: ✓
- Followers: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 458 other Tapline calls

## Not found

- $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Transcripts for any public video, comment threads, search, channels, playlists, and metadata.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: The Services provide market-data and analytics outputs for your internal business, research, and analytical purposes. [...] You agree to use the Services only for lawful purposes and in accordance with these Terms. You shall not, and shall not permit anyone acting on your behalf to: (a) use the Services to access, collect, or attempt to collect data that is not publicly available, including data behind authentication, login, or paywall barriers, or data you are not authorized to access, (b) use the Services in a manner that infringes, misappropriates, or violates the intellectual property rights, privacy rights, or contractual or terms-of-service rights of any third party, (c) use the Services to collect, assemble, or process personal data in violation of any applicable data-protection or privacy law, (d) resell, sublicense, redistribute, or make the Services or substantial portions of the data outputs available to a third party as a standalone product, or use the Services to build a competing data product, (e) interfere with, disrupt, place an undue load on, or attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Services, our systems, or the systems of any third party, including via denial-of-service activity, the introduction of malware, or probing security vulnerabilities, (f) reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to derive the source code of the Services, except to the extent this restriction is prohibited by applicable law, (g) use the Services for any fraudulent, deceptive, harassing, defamatory, or otherwise unlawful activity, or in any way that could damage the reputation of Tapline or our payment providers, or (h) use the Services in violation of any applicable law, regulation, sanctions regime, or governmental order.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 credits
- Enough for: about 33 calls, once

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: channel_id
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/youtube/channels/{channel_id}

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone at least 18 years old

## The 8 fields the plan's answer can hold

channel ID, name, channel URL, handle, bio, subscribers, tags, profile picture

## Tapline's plans (7)

- [Tapline, free](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/tapline/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 27% complete
- [Tapline, $9 pack](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/tapline/9-pack/llms.txt): $5.40 per 1,000, 27% complete
- [Tapline, $49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/tapline/49-monthly/llms.txt): $1.47 per 1,000, 27% complete
- [Tapline, $199 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/tapline/199-monthly/llms.txt): $0.597 per 1,000, 27% complete
- [Tapline, $499 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/tapline/499-monthly/llms.txt): $0.374 per 1,000, 27% complete
- [Tapline, $468 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/tapline/468-yearly/llms.txt): $1.17 per 1,000, 27% complete
- [Tapline, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/tapline/contact-us/llms.txt): 27% complete

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

- `GET /v1/youtube/channels/{channel_id}`: [Tapline, free](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/tapline/free/llms.txt)

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- [Tapline YouTube channel API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/tapline/free/llms.txt)
- [Tapline YouTube channel video API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/tapline/free/llms.txt)

## Tapline: YouTube channel API alternatives

[Tapline alternatives: other YouTube channel API providers by price](https://datacircle.dev/tapline-alternatives.txt)

We list Tapline's cheapest paid plan first. Next we list other providers' plans closest to Tapline in price per 1,000 channels.

- [Tapline, $499 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/tapline/499-monthly/llms.txt): $0.374 per 1,000, 27% complete
- [Omkar Cloud, $148 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/omkar-cloud/148-monthly/llms.txt): $0.37 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [Upscrape, $149 pack](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/upscrape/149-pack/llms.txt): $0.372 per 1,000, 27% complete, live
- [Scrapingdog, $900 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapingdog/900-yearly/llms.txt): $0.375 per 1,000, 55% complete
- [Mindcase, top-up from $1,000](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/mindcase/top-up-from-1000/llms.txt): $0.385 per 1,000, 45% 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 2026-11-11.

- https://tapline.sh?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://tapline.sh/SKILL.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://tapline.sh/apis?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://tapline.sh/compare/hasdata-vs-tapline?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://tapline.sh/docs/linkedin?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://tapline.sh/linkedin?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://tapline.sh/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://tapline.sh/openapi.all.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://tapline.sh/openapi.youtube.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://tapline.sh/refund-policy?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://tapline.sh/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing