§ YouTube/Channel
YouTube

YouTube Channel Scraper API

Subscriber count, video count, total views, linked socials, tags — everything a public YouTube channel exposes, in one call.

From $0.0030 per call·Median under 2s·One charge per call
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§ One call

Send a handle.
Get back JSON.

This endpoint takes one input: handle. The response carries the parsed YouTube entity — every public field, in a flat, predictable shape.

Request
cURL
curl https://api.hproxy.com/v1/scrape/youtube/channel/collect/by/handle \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $HPROXY_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"handle":"ThePatMcAfeeShow"}'
POST // 1 call · $0.0030 · <2s
Response200 OK
{
  "channelId": "UCxcTeAKWJca6XyJ37_ZoKIQ",
  "channel": "http://www.youtube.com/@ThePatMcAfeeShow",
  "name": "The Pat McAfee Show",
  "avatar": {
    "image": {
      "sources": [
        {
          "url": "https://yt3.googleusercontent.com/….jpg",
          "width": 72,
          "height": 72
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "subscriberCount": 2750000,
  "subscriberCountText": "2.75M subscribers",
  "videoCountText": "9,221 videos",
  "viewCountText": "2,170,355,382 views",
  "joinedDateText": "Joined Aug 23, 2017",
  "twitter": "https://twitter.com/PatMcAfeeShow",
  "instagram": "https://instagram.com/patmcafeeshow",
  "country": "United States"
}
What comes backparsed fields
YouTube Channel
youtube_channel
channelIdstring
channelurl
namestring
avatarobject
subscriberCountnumber
subscriberCountTextstring
videoCountTextstring
viewCountTextstring
One real call · one structured record
§ What you get

Structured data,
not a scraping project.

Channel profile, subscriber count, total videos, total views, social links.

Live JSON, returned in seconds
No login flows, no captcha solving
Pay-as-you-go, priced in dollars
Same API key across every scraper
Idempotent retries via X-Request-Id
REST — works from any language
§ Built for

The work that
needs this data.

§ 01

Lead generation

Pull YouTube signals at scale and enrich your CRM with public profile data — clean, structured, ready to import.

§ 02

Market research

Track competitors, audience movements, and trends across YouTube without standing up any scraping infrastructure.

§ 03

AI training data

Feed predictable YouTube JSON straight into your model fine-tuning pipeline. Same schema every call.

§ More YouTube

The rest of the
YouTube hub.

See all 12 endpoints

YouTube Channel Videos

/v1/scrape/youtube/channel/videos

Paginated list of videos uploaded by a YouTube channel.

$0.0030
per call

YouTube Channel Shorts

/v1/scrape/youtube/channel/shorts

List of short-form videos (Shorts) from a YouTube channel.

$0.0030
per call

YouTube Video

/v1/scrape/youtube/video/collect/by/url

Full YouTube video metadata, captions, related videos.

$0.0030
per call

YouTube Video Transcript

/v1/scrape/youtube/video/transcript

Captions / subtitles / transcript for a YouTube video.

$0.0300
per call
§ Try it

Two dollars,
first run.

Sign in with Google, drop $2 in the wallet, fire your first Channel call against youtube.com. If it doesn’t do what you need, the balance is refundable for 24 hours.

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