# TranscriptAPI, free, GET /youtube/channel/latest: YouTube channel video API

> Check for the latest uploads from any channel — no credits required. Perfect for monitoring, daily recaps, or triggering downstream pipelines.

TranscriptAPI's YouTube channel video API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 videos. TranscriptAPI's docs list 4 of the 6 key fields we check: Text, Media, Analytics, Author.
You get 100 credits. You spend the credits on TranscriptAPI's other calls. This call is free: you can get as many pages as you like.
We haven't run TranscriptAPI 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/transcriptapi/free-get-youtube-channel-latest
- [YouTube channel video API: the 13 best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-youtube-channel-video-api.txt)
- Get it: https://transcriptapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://transcriptapi.com/api/v2/youtube/channel/latest`
- API key: with the plan, on https://transcriptapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://transcriptapi.com/docs/api/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing#channel-latest-rss
- Sold by: TranscriptAPI (https://transcriptapi.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 15
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Check for the latest uploads from any channel — no credits required. Perfect for monitoring, daily recaps, or triggering downstream pipelines.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You agree NOT to: Violate any laws, regulations, or third-party rights, Use the Service for any illegal or unauthorized purpose, Attempt to reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Service, Overload or interfere with the Service infrastructure, Use automated tools to abuse, spam, or overload the Service, Resell or redistribute the Service without explicit written permission, Access data or systems without authorization, Use the Service to collect personal information without consent, Transmit viruses, malware, or other malicious code, Impersonate others or misrepresent your affiliation [...] transcript data is sourced from YouTube and subject to YouTube's terms and applicable copyright laws [...] You may use transcripts in your own commercial product, subject to YouTube's terms.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 credits
- Enough for: no limit
- Expires: 90 days

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: channel
- Method: GET
- Path: /youtube/channel/latest

## About the plan

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

## The 10 fields the plan's answer can hold

video ID, title, channel ID, author name, publish date, video URL, description, thumbnail, view count, results returned

## TranscriptAPI's plans (5)

- [TranscriptAPI, free, GET /youtube/channel/latest](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/transcriptapi/free-get-youtube-channel-latest/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [TranscriptAPI, $5 monthly, Monthly, GET /youtube/channel/latest](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/transcriptapi/5-monthly-monthly-get-youtube-channel-latest/llms.txt): $0.000039 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [TranscriptAPI, $10 yearly, Special Low Usage Plan, GET /youtube/channel/latest](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/transcriptapi/10-yearly-special-low-usage-plan-get-youtube-channel-latest/llms.txt): $0.0000043 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [TranscriptAPI, $54 yearly, Annual, GET /youtube/channel/latest](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/transcriptapi/54-yearly-annual-get-youtube-channel-latest/llms.txt): $0.000023 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [TranscriptAPI, contact us, Custom plan, GET /youtube/channel/latest](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/transcriptapi/contact-us-custom-plan-get-youtube-channel-latest/llms.txt): 67% complete

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

- `GET /youtube/channel/latest`: [TranscriptAPI, free, GET /youtube/channel/latest](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/transcriptapi/free-get-youtube-channel-latest/llms.txt)
- `GET /youtube/channel/videos`: [TranscriptAPI, free, GET /youtube/channel/videos](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/transcriptapi/free-get-youtube-channel-videos/llms.txt)

## TranscriptAPI's APIs (3)

- [TranscriptAPI: YouTube channel API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/transcriptapi/free/llms.txt)
- [TranscriptAPI: YouTube channel video API pricing, 5 plans, GET /youtube/channel/latest](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/transcriptapi/free-get-youtube-channel-latest/llms.txt)
- [TranscriptAPI: video search API pricing, 5 plans, GET /youtube/search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/transcriptapi/free-get-youtube-search/llms.txt)
- [TranscriptAPI: video search API pricing, 5 plans, GET /youtube/channel/search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/transcriptapi/free-get-youtube-channel-search/llms.txt)

## TranscriptAPI: YouTube channel video API alternatives

- [Serpent API, top-up from $500](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/serpent-api/top-up-from-500/llms.txt): $0.0002 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Zapi, Rp399,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/zapi/rp399000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.00074 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [Anysite, $1,199 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/anysite/1199-monthly/llms.txt): $0.001 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [ReefAPI, $1,200 yearly, Enterprise yearly, POST /youtube/v1/channel_shorts](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/reefapi/1200-yearly-enterprise-yearly-post-youtube-v1-channel-shorts/llms.txt): $0.0017 per 1,000, 67% 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://transcriptapi.com/docs/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing
- https://transcriptapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing
- https://transcriptapi.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing