# Upscrape, free: YouTube channel API

> Get a channel from its link, handle or ID: name, description, subscribers, video count, keywords and tabs.

Upscrape's YouTube channel API on its Free credits plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 channels. It returns 3 of the 11 key fields we check: Bio, Followers, Posts.
We rank 275 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/upscrape/free
- [Best YouTube channel API in 2026: providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-youtube-channel-api.txt)
- Get it: https://upscrape.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://data.upscrape.com/execute`
- API key: with the plan, on https://upscrape.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.upscrape.com/docs/platforms/youtube/youtube.channel.get?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- Sold by: Upscrape (https://upscrape.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-03

## In the answer

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

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 500 other calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Get a channel from its link, handle or ID: name, description, subscribers, video count, keywords and tabs.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Subject to these terms and law, you may store, analyze, transform, combine, and use Output in workflows, reports, applications, and services for end users. [...] Output may contain third-party material, and Upscrape does not transfer ownership or grant a license in that material. [...] You may not use, facilitate, or permit use of the Service to: violate law, a court order, contract, or third-party right, harass, stalk, threaten, discriminate against, exploit, or harm a person, conduct unlawful surveillance or process personal data without a lawful basis, send spam, deceptive communications, or malicious code, collect sensitive information without authorization, circumvent access controls, authentication, limits, or security measures, interfere with, overload, damage, probe, or gain unauthorized access to a system, reverse engineer non-public code, systems, or methods, except where law prohibits this restriction, sell, sublicense, rent, or redistribute access to the Service or credentials, resell substantial unmodified Output as a standalone dataset, data broker service, or competing API without written permission, or misrepresent the source, accuracy, ownership, or endorsement of Output.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 credits
- Enough for: 400 calls
- Expires: 60 days after issuance

## Rate limit

- Per second: 20
- Concurrent: 3
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call or by polling

## The call

- You send: capability "youtube.channel.get", input.url, Content-Type header "application/json"
- Method: POST
- Path: /execute

## About the plan

- Plan: Free credits
- Who can get it: anyone at least 18 years old and legally capable of entering the terms

## The 14 fields the plan's answer can hold

name, handle, subscribers, videos count, bio, family safe, tabs, channel ID, keywords, subscribers approximate, subscribers text, channel URL, vanity URL, videos count text

## Upscrape's plans (5)

- [Upscrape, free](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/upscrape/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 27% complete, live
- [Upscrape, $49 pack](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/upscrape/49-pack/llms.txt): $0.49 per 1,000, 27% complete, live
- [Upscrape, $149 pack](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/upscrape/149-pack/llms.txt): $0.372 per 1,000, 27% complete, live
- [Upscrape, $499 pack](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/upscrape/499-pack/llms.txt): $0.313 per 1,000, 27% complete, live
- [Upscrape, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/upscrape/contact-us/llms.txt): 27% complete, live

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

- `POST /execute`: [Upscrape, free](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/upscrape/free/llms.txt)

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- [SocialCrawl, £49 pack, Growth, POST /v1/youtube/channels](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/socialcrawl/49-pack-growth-post-v1-youtube-channels/llms.txt): $0.327 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [ReefAPI, $1,200 yearly, Enterprise yearly, POST /youtube/v1/channel](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/reefapi/1200-yearly-enterprise-yearly-post-youtube-v1-channel/llms.txt): $0.333 per 1,000, 45% 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 2026-11-03.

- https://docs.upscrape.com/docs/api/credits-and-limits.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://docs.upscrape.com/docs/api/errors?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://docs.upscrape.com/docs/platforms/linkedin/linkedin.profile.get?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://docs.upscrape.com/docs/platforms/youtube/index.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://docs.upscrape.com/docs/platforms/youtube/youtube.channel.get/index.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://docs.upscrape.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://upscrape.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://upscrape.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing
- https://upscrape.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-api-pricing