Advanced Youtube Scraping - Channel Detailed Info Data through a simple Python API

19 July 2024
Andrea Ramazzina
Chief Scientific Officer

Youtube data scraping APIs provide powerful tools for extracting valuable data. These APIs allow businesses and developers to access a wealth of information which can be leveraged for analytics, marketing, trend monitoring, and more.

With platforms like EnsembleData, you can efficiently gather structured data in real time, empowering several applications such as social media monitoring, influencer marketing, competitive analysis, and brand management.

Here, we want to use EnsembleData social media APIs for scraping Youtube Channel Detailed Info (API documentation). Let’s follow these simple steps to get started:


1. Sign up on EnsembleData

To use the EnsembleData API you’ll need an API token. You can get one for free by signing up to EnsembleData here. Once you’ve signed in, you’ll find your API token on the top left corner of the dashboard.

EnsembleData dashboard
Preview of the dashboard. In the top left is the personal token used to authenticate requests to the EnsembleData API

2. Verify email address

Before you start making requests to the EnsembleData API, you’ll need to verify your email address. We require this to prevent spam. You should have received an email from us with a verification link. Click on the link to verify your email address.

The API won’t respond with any data until you’ve verified your email address.


3. Access Youtube data API with Python

In this example, we’ll use Python for fetching and scraping Youtube Channel Detailed Info:

import requests

root = "https://ensembledata.com/apis"
endpoint = "/youtube/channel/detailed-info"
params = {
  "browseId": "UCnQghMm3Z164JFhScQYFTBw",
  "from_url": False,
  "token": "YOUR-TOKEN-HERE"
}

res = requests.get(root+endpoint, params=params)
print(res.json())

Et voilà! Using EnsembleData Youtube data API, we were able to scrape Youtube Channel Detailed Info. For more detailed information, dive into our API documentation.

If you have any questions, contact us, or send us a message at [email protected].