# Refetcher, free: YouTube channel video API

> its latest videos — with views, likes and comments when you need them

Refetcher's YouTube channel video API on its Free trial plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 videos. It returns 5 of the 6 key fields we check: Text, Media, Engagement, Analytics, Author.
We rank 82 plans by price. [Anysite's $300 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/anysite/300-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 videos: $0.0016. Anysite charges for each page of results. We count 1,000 videos on each page to get the $0.0016 price.
[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 [Captapi](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/captapi/9-monthly/llms.txt) are the best YouTube channel video API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/refetcher/free
- [Best YouTube channel video API in 2026: pricing compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-youtube-channel-video-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.refetcher.com/pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.refetcher.com/`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.refetcher.com/pricing
- Its API docs: https://www.refetcher.com/docs
- Sold by: Refetcher (https://www.refetcher.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-31

## In the answer

- Completeness: 83%
- Text: ✓
- Media: ✓
- Engagement: ✓
- Analytics: ✓
- Author: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 videos: $0.00
- Per: page of 12
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Instagram Post/Reel · Instagram Profile · Instagram Comments · TikTok Video/Carousel · TikTok Profile · TikTok Comments & Replies · Facebook Post/Reel · Facebook Profile · X Post · X Profile · YouTube Video · YouTube Comments & Replies

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: its latest videos — with views, likes and comments when you need them

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Subject to your full compliance with these Terms, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and query the Refetch(er) scraper API solely to retrieve public, unmodified post metrics for your applications. [...] Third-Party Compliance: You acknowledge that web scraping may violate the terms of service of third-party platforms. You are solely responsible for ensuring your use of this API complies with the laws and terms of the platforms you target. [...] You agree that you will not, and will not permit any third party to: Use the API to scrape, access, or extract non-public, private, or restricted social media contents (such as posts from private accounts or direct messages). [...] Query the Service in any manner that executes denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, attempts to overload our dispatcher system, or otherwise degrades Service performance for other customers. [...] Bypass, disable, or circumvent any security-related features, authentication hashes, or usage boundaries enforced on your API keys or control panel dashboard. [...] Use the Service to build a competing real-time social media scraping API product or database mirror. [...] Incorporate the Service into any applications that facilitate harassment, spam, copyright infringement, or illegal surveillance. [...] Reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or attempt to discover the source code, object code, or underlying structure, ideas, or algorithms of the Service or its scraping dispatchers.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: $2.70
- Enough for: 3,000 pages

## Rate limit

- Concurrent: no limit
- Batch: 10

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: one of url, handle, channelId or urls, platform "youtube". Optional: type "channelVideos", pages, recentVideosLimit, after
- Method: POST
- Path: /

## About the plan

- Plan: Free trial
- Who can get it: anyone, or acting for an organization they have the authority to bind

## The 18 fields the plan's answer can hold

success, request ID, video ID, video URL, title, publish date, video duration, thumbnail, view count, like count, comment count, channel ID, channel name, author username, author subscribers, has more, next cursor, count on page

## Refetcher's plans (4)

- [Refetcher, free](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/refetcher/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [Refetcher, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/refetcher/top-up/llms.txt): $0.075 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [Refetcher, top-up from $200](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/refetcher/top-up-from-200/llms.txt): $0.071 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [Refetcher, top-up from $500](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/refetcher/top-up-from-500/llms.txt): $0.068 per 1,000, 83% complete, live

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

- `POST /`: [Refetcher, free](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/refetcher/free/llms.txt)

## Refetcher's APIs (11)

- [Refetcher: Facebook page API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-page-apis/refetcher/free/llms.txt)
- [Refetcher: Facebook post API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-post-apis/refetcher/free/llms.txt)
- [Refetcher: Instagram post API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/refetcher/free/llms.txt)
- [Refetcher: Instagram profile API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/refetcher/free/llms.txt)
- [Refetcher: TikTok profile API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/refetcher/free/llms.txt)
- [Refetcher: TikTok video API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-video-apis/refetcher/free/llms.txt)
- [Refetcher: X post API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/refetcher/free/llms.txt)
- [Refetcher: X profile API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/refetcher/free/llms.txt)
- [Refetcher: YouTube channel API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/refetcher/free/llms.txt)
- [Refetcher: YouTube channel video API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/refetcher/free/llms.txt)
- [Refetcher: people enrichment API pricing, 1 plan, POST /people-detail](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/refetcher/contact-us-access-on-request-post-people-detail/llms.txt)
- [Refetcher: people enrichment API pricing, 1 plan, POST /people-search](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/refetcher/contact-us-access-on-request-post-people-search/llms.txt)

## Refetcher: YouTube channel video API alternatives

- [Omkar Cloud, $16 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/omkar-cloud/16-monthly/llms.txt): $0.027 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Captapi, $275 pack](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/captapi/275-pack/llms.txt): $0.055 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [lobstr.io, $100 monthly, Pro, POST /v1/runs, YouTube Channel Scraper](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/lobstr-io/100-monthly/llms.txt): $0.067 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [SocialCrawl, £299 pack](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/socialcrawl/299-pack/llms.txt): $0.089 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 2026-10-31.

- https://www.refetcher.com
- https://www.refetcher.com/docs
- https://www.refetcher.com/llms.txt
- https://www.refetcher.com/pricing
- https://www.refetcher.com/terms
- https://www.refetcher.com/youtube-scraper-api