# Influship, free: YouTube channel video API

> Channel identity, metrics, and optional videos

Influship's YouTube channel video API on its Starter credits plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 videos. Influship's docs list 4 of the 6 key fields we check: Text, Media, Analytics, Author.
We haven't run Influship through [our YouTube channel video API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-youtube-channel-video-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 184 plans for YouTube channel video APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.052 per 1,000 videos or less.
[TranscriptAPI's $5 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/transcriptapi/5-monthly-monthly-get-youtube-channel-latest/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 videos. TranscriptAPI's $5 monthly plan charges nothing per call. You get as many videos as TranscriptAPI's rate limit allows.
[TubeLab's $39 monthly plan (/channel/shorts/{id})](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/tubelab/39-monthly-pro-get-channel-shorts-id/llms.txt) covers any number of videos. TubeLab's $39 monthly plan costs more up front than TranscriptAPI's $5 monthly plan.
[YouTube Data API (Google)](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/youtube-data-api-google/free-default-quota-get-youtube-v3-search/llms.txt), [Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/scrappa/25-pack/llms.txt) and [lobstr.io](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/lobstr-io/500-monthly/llms.txt) are the best YouTube channel video API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/influship/free
- [YouTube channel video API: the 13 best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-youtube-channel-video-api.txt)
- Get it: https://docs.influship.com/concepts/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.influship.com/v1/raw/youtube/channel/{handle}`
- API key: with the plan, on https://docs.influship.com/concepts/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.influship.com/api-reference/live-scraping/get-live-youtube-channel?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing
- Sold by: Influship (https://influship.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-06

## In the answer

- Completeness: 67%
- Text: ✓
- Media: ✓
- Analytics: ✓
- Author: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 videos: $0.00
- Per: page of 50
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Start fee: $0.00
- Also pays for: from the same budget: AI-Powered Creator Search · Autocomplete Search · Ingest a Creator On Demand · Get Creator by ID · Find Similar Creators · Score Campaign Fit · Lookup Creator Emails · Get Profile by Platform and Username · Batch Lookup Profiles · Get Posts · Get Live Instagram Profile · Get Live Instagram Post · Get Live Instagram Posts · Get Instagram Post Transcript · Get Instagram Post Transcripts · Get Live YouTube Channel · Get YouTube Video Details · Get YouTube Video Transcript · Get YouTube Channel Transcripts · Search YouTube · Get YouTube Search Suggestions · Get TikTok Videos in a Batch · Get TikTok Transcripts in a Batch · Get Live TikTok Profile · List Live TikTok Profile Videos · Get Live TikTok Video · List Live TikTok Video Comments · List Live TikTok Comment Replies · Get TikTok Video Captions · Get TikTok Sound Details · Search TikTok Users · Search TikTok Videos · Get TikTok Hashtag Videos · Get TikTok Music Videos · Get TikTok Video Transcript

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Channel identity, metrics, and optional videos

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You agree not to: Use the Service to harass, stalk, threaten, or send unsolicited bulk messages to creators or anyone else. Scrape, crawl, or programmatically extract data from the Platform beyond what the Platform’s interface and any documented API expressly allow. Resell, sublicense, or redistribute Creator Data obtained through the Service as a standalone dataset or data product. Circumvent rate limits, access controls, or authentication mechanisms. Use the Service for any purpose that violates applicable law, including anti-spam, data protection, and intellectual property laws. Reverse-engineer, decompile, disassemble, or attempt to derive the source code of any part of the Service, except where applicable law prohibits this restriction. Create multiple accounts to abuse trials, circumvent usage limits, or evade a suspension.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 500 credits
- Enough for: about 2,777 pages
- Expires: never

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: handle, include_videos "true". Optional: video_limit
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/raw/youtube/channel/{handle}

## About the plan

- Plan: Starter credits
- Who can get it: anyone at least 18 years old, or the age of majority in their jurisdiction

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

channel ID, channel handle, channel name, video ID, title, video URL, thumbnail, published text, video duration, video duration text, view count, view count text, fetched at

## Influship's plans (5)

- [Influship, free](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/influship/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Influship, pay as you go, MPP](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/influship/pay-as-you-go-mpp/llms.txt): $0.20 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Influship, pay as you go, Usage-based credits](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/influship/pay-as-you-go-usage-based-credits/llms.txt): $0.036 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Influship, pay as you go, x402](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/influship/pay-as-you-go-x402/llms.txt): $0.20 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Influship, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/influship/contact-us/llms.txt): 67% complete, live

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

- `GET /v1/raw/youtube/channel/{handle}`: [Influship, free](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/influship/free/llms.txt)

## Influship's APIs (6)

- [Influship: TikTok profile API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/influship/free/llms.txt)
- [Influship: TikTok video API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-video-apis/influship/free/llms.txt)
- [Influship: YouTube channel API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/influship/free/llms.txt)
- [Influship: YouTube channel video API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/influship/free/llms.txt)
- [Influship: Instagram profile API pricing, 5 plans, POST /v1/profiles/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/influship/free-starter-credits-post-v1-profiles-lookup/llms.txt)
- [Influship: Instagram profile API pricing, 5 plans, GET /v1/raw/instagram/profile/{username}](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/influship/free-starter-credits-get-v1-raw-instagram-profile-username/llms.txt)
- [Influship: Instagram profile API pricing, 5 plans, GET /v1/profiles/{platform}/{username}](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/influship/free-starter-credits-get-v1-profiles-platform-username/llms.txt)
- [Influship: Instagram post API pricing, 5 plans, GET /v1/raw/instagram/profile/{username}](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/influship/free-starter-credits-get-v1-raw-instagram-profile-username/llms.txt)
- [Influship: Instagram post API pricing, 5 plans, GET /v1/posts](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/influship/free-starter-credits-get-v1-posts/llms.txt)

## Influship: YouTube channel video API alternatives

- [Spidra, $249 monthly, Pro, POST /scrape](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/spidra/249-monthly-pro-post-scrape/llms.txt): $0.033 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [lobstr.io, $1,000 monthly, Business, POST /v1/runs, YouTube Channel Scraper](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/lobstr-io/1000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.033 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [DataXAPI, $50 pack](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/dataxapi/50-pack/llms.txt): $0.033 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [Qovia, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/qovia/top-up/llms.txt): $0.033 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [ScrapeMole, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/scrapemole/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $0.04 per 1,000, 83% 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 2026-11-06.

- https://docs.influship.com/api-reference/live-scraping/get-live-youtube-channel?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing
- https://docs.influship.com/concepts/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing
- https://docs.influship.com/concepts/quotas-and-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing
- https://docs.influship.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing
- https://docs.influship.com/openapi/openapi.yaml?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing
- https://influship.com/developers/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing
- https://www.influship.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing