Youtube Channel Profile Information API
Fetch YouTube channel data including subscriber counts, total views, upload frequency, and metadata for competitive research and video strategy.
Python | 1 | import requests |
| 2 | |
| 3 | root = "https://ensembledata.com/apis" |
| 4 | endpoint = "/youtube/channel/detailed-info" |
| 5 | params = { |
| 6 | "browseId": "UCnQghMm3Z164JFhScQYFTBw", |
| 7 | "from_url": False, |
| 8 | "get_additional_info": False, |
| 9 | "token": "YOUR-TOKEN-HERE" |
| 10 | } |
| 11 | |
| 12 | res = requests.get(root+endpoint, params=params) |
| 13 | print(res.json()) |
| 14 |
Why Developer Teams Use Our API
Vet Channels at a Glance
Pull subscriber counts, view totals, and channel details before any partnership decision.
No YouTube API Key Setup
Skip Google Cloud console configuration and quota management, just call the endpoint directly.
Bulk Channel Screening
Check dozens of channel IDs in a batch instead of opening each channel page.
Live Subscriber Counts
Every response reflects the channel's current stats, not a cached YouTube Data API snapshot.
Structured Channel Metadata
Get description, upload count, and creation date in clean JSON, ready for a dashboard.
Built for Creator Research
Purpose-built fields for influencer vetting instead of generic channel resource data.
Scrape Youtube Data Effortlessly
Get complete YouTube channel profiles via API including subscriber growth, view totals, and engagement metrics, everything you need for benchmarking without manual lookup.
Channel ID or URL Lookup
Query any YouTube channel by its ID or URL and get full profile data back.
Description & Creation Date
Pull a channel's about section and creation date alongside core stats.
Sponsorship Vetting Sheet
Turn raw YouTube channel numbers into a quick reference before sponsoring.
Youtube Scraping Features
Our channel analytics API gives you the data to understand how any YouTube channel is performing, useful for video marketers and audience researchers.
- Look up any channel by its handle, legacy custom URL, or channel ID and get the same profile.
- Compare subscriber and total view counts across channels to benchmark size and growth.
- Pull total video count, creation date, and country setting alongside core channel stats.
- Skip Google Cloud API key management and quota limits entirely for channel lookups.
- Calculate upload frequency directly from the channel data this endpoint returns.
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Contact usFrequently Asked Questions
It returns subscriber count, total views, upload frequency, and channel metadata for any public YouTube channel.
Yes, subscriber and view totals returned by this endpoint are commonly used to compare channel size and growth against competitors in the same niche.
You provide the channel's ID or URL, and the endpoint returns its full public profile data.
Yes, the endpoint returns data that lets you calculate how often a channel publishes new content over time.
Yes, the endpoint accepts the channel handle, the legacy custom URL, or the alphanumeric channel ID, resolving all three to the same profile.
Yes, total public video count is returned alongside subscriber and view totals as part of the channel's core stats.
The endpoint returns a not-found response for channels that are no longer publicly accessible on YouTube.
Yes, where the channel owner has set it, the country field is returned as part of the channel metadata.
Yes, this endpoint retrieves publicly visible channel data directly, so you avoid Google's quota limits and API key management.