# ShortsIntel, free, Starter Grant, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}/videos: YouTube channel video API

> A channel by handle or channel id: subscribers, total views, country, a baseline and its Shorts.

ShortsIntel's Starter Grant plan for the YouTube channel video API costs $0.00 per 1,000 videos. ShortsIntel's docs list 5 of the 6 fields on our checklist: Text, Media, Engagement, Analytics, Author.
You get 1,000 credits. You spend the credits on ShortsIntel's other calls. This call is free for up to 2,592,000 pages a month. Extra fields on this call cost credits.
We haven't run ShortsIntel through [our YouTube channel video API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-youtube-channel-video-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 253 plans for YouTube channel video APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.063 per 1,000 videos or less. [See the best free YouTube channel video API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-youtube-channel-video-api.txt)
[TranscriptYT's $3 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/transcriptyt/3-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 videos. TranscriptYT's $3 monthly plan charges nothing per call. You get as many videos as TranscriptYT's rate limit allows.
[ShortsIntel's $10 pack (/creators/{platform}/{handle}/videos)](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/shortsintel/10-pack-top-up-10-get-creators-platform-handle-videos/llms.txt) covers any number of videos. ShortsIntel's $10 pack costs more up front than TranscriptYT's $3 monthly plan.
[ScrapeUnblocker](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/scrapeunblocker/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt), [YouTube Data API (Google)](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/youtube-data-api-google/free-default-quota-get-youtube-v3-search/llms.txt) and [EveryInfra](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/everyinfra/10-pack/llms.txt) are the best YouTube channel video API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/shortsintel/free-starter-grant-get-creators-platform-handle-videos
- [YouTube channel video API: the best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-youtube-channel-video-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.shortsintel.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://www.shortsintel.com/v1/creators/{platform}/{handle}/videos`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.shortsintel.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://www.shortsintel.com/docs/reference/creators/list-creator-videos?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing
- Sold by: ShortsIntel (https://www.shortsintel.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

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

## Price

- $ per 1,000 videos: $0.00
- Per: page of 100
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Extra fields: transcript, mentioned brands: +$0.00
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Research a niche · Refresh a research's videos · Run a Creator Breakdown · Search videos by keyword · Look up a video by URL · Look up a video by id · Analyse a video · Score a video against its creator · Read a video's comments · Read a comment's replies · Look up a creator and baseline · Look up a hashtag's trend · Page a hashtag's videos · Look up a sound's trend · Page a sound's videos · Sample a keyword search · Search ad libraries · Look up a Meta Ad by id · Get a TikTok Ad · Look up an advertiser profile · Start tracking a target · Run a tracker cycle now · Set or clear a tracker's focus · Preview a focus on a tracker

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: A channel by handle or channel id: subscribers, total views, country, a baseline and its Shorts.

## Data

- Freshness: stored
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Derived works are permitted. You may analyse, transform, combine and build on the API output, and you may distribute and commercialise the results [...] Reselling the raw data is not permitted. You may not: resell, sublicense, redistribute or otherwise make available the raw records or bulk API output as a data product, feed, export or dataset, whether for a fee or free of charge, republish raw records in bulk, or mirror, replicate or reconstruct the ShortsIntel corpus or any substantial part of it, including by systematic enumeration of the API, use the API or its output to build, train or operate a substitute for the Service, or a competing short-form video data service, use the output to identify, target, profile, score or make decisions about individual people, including creators and commenters, or to enable anyone else to do so, remove, obscure or misrepresent the provenance of data obtained through the Service where you are permitted to display it. Upstream restrictions pass through. [...] Where those providers or platforms impose restrictions on the use, retention or redistribution of that data, those restrictions apply to you as well

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 credits
- Enough for: 2,592,000 pages a month
- Expires: 90 days

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Concurrent: 10
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call or by polling

## The call

- You send: platform "youtube", handle. Optional: limit, cursor, intelligence, wait, max_credits, estimate
- Method: GET
- Path: /creators/{platform}/{handle}/videos

## About the plan

- Plan: Starter Grant
- Who can get it: anyone who signs up

## The 33 fields the plan's answer can hold

platform, video ID, video URL, description, publish date, duration seconds, thumbnail, hashtags, author ID, author username, author name, author subscribers, author picture, author verified, region code, language, title, is ad, paid partnership, mentions, AI generated, chapters, genre, view count, like count, comment count, share count, save count, outlier multiplier, labels, next cursor, view percentile, views per hour

## ShortsIntel's plans (5)

- [ShortsIntel, free, Starter Grant, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}/videos](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/shortsintel/free-starter-grant-get-creators-platform-handle-videos/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 83% complete, stored
- [ShortsIntel, $10 pack, Top-up $10, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}/videos](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/shortsintel/10-pack-top-up-10-get-creators-platform-handle-videos/llms.txt): no limit, 83% complete, stored
- [ShortsIntel, $20 pack, Top-up $20, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}/videos](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/shortsintel/20-pack-top-up-20-get-creators-platform-handle-videos/llms.txt): no limit, 83% complete, stored
- [ShortsIntel, $50 pack, Top-up $50, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}/videos](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/shortsintel/50-pack-top-up-50-get-creators-platform-handle-videos/llms.txt): no limit, 83% complete, stored
- [ShortsIntel, $100 pack, Top-up $100, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}/videos](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/shortsintel/100-pack-top-up-100-get-creators-platform-handle-videos/llms.txt): no limit, 83% complete, stored

## ShortsIntel's calls for this API (2)

- `GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}`: [ShortsIntel, free, Starter Grant, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/shortsintel/free-starter-grant-get-creators-platform-handle/llms.txt)
- `GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}/videos`: [ShortsIntel, free, Starter Grant, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}/videos](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/shortsintel/free-starter-grant-get-creators-platform-handle-videos/llms.txt)

## ShortsIntel's APIs (11)

- [ShortsIntel: Facebook Ad Library API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/shortsintel/free/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: Facebook page API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-page-apis/shortsintel/free/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: Instagram profile API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/shortsintel/free/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: TikTok Ad Library API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-ad-apis/shortsintel/free/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: TikTok profile API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/shortsintel/free/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: video search API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/shortsintel/free/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: YouTube channel API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/shortsintel/free/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: Facebook post API pricing, 5 plans, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-post-apis/shortsintel/free-starter-grant-get-creators-platform-handle/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: Facebook post API pricing, 5 plans, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}/videos](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-post-apis/shortsintel/free-starter-grant-get-creators-platform-handle-videos/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: Instagram post API pricing, 5 plans, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/shortsintel/free-starter-grant-get-creators-platform-handle/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: Instagram post API pricing, 5 plans, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}/videos](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/shortsintel/free-starter-grant-get-creators-platform-handle-videos/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: TikTok video API pricing, 5 plans, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-video-apis/shortsintel/free-starter-grant-get-creators-platform-handle/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: TikTok video API pricing, 5 plans, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}/videos](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-video-apis/shortsintel/free-starter-grant-get-creators-platform-handle-videos/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: YouTube channel video API pricing, 5 plans, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}/videos](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/shortsintel/free-starter-grant-get-creators-platform-handle-videos/llms.txt)

## ShortsIntel: YouTube channel video API alternatives

- [ScrapeUnblocker, free](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/scrapeunblocker/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [influData, free](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/infludata/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, stored
- [Viral Outliers, $99 pack](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/viral-outliers/99-pack/llms.txt): $0.33 per 1,000, 67% complete, stored
- [Fanpage Karma, $3,750 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/fanpage-karma/3750-monthly/llms.txt): $0.375 per 1,000, 67% complete, stored

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-07.

- https://www.shortsintel.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing
- https://www.shortsintel.com/docs/concepts/authentication-and-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing
- https://www.shortsintel.com/docs/concepts/pricing-and-estimates?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing
- https://www.shortsintel.com/openapi.v1.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing
- https://www.shortsintel.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing
- https://www.shortsintel.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing
- https://www.shortsintel.com/youtube-shorts-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing