Social Media

YouTube Channel

Get structured details for a YouTube channel — title, description, subscriber/video/view counts, country, creation date, verification, avatar, banner, and external links — as JSON.

POST/api/v1/youtube/channel

Authorizations

Authorizationstringheaderrequired

Bearer authentication header of the form Bearer <token>, where <token> is your Scavio API key (e.g. Bearer sk_live_your_key).

Body

application/json

channel_idstringrequired

The channel id (UC...), an @handle, or a channel URL. Handles and URLs are resolved server-side.

Example: UCSJ4gkVC6NrvII8umztf0Ow

Request

from scavio import ScavioClient

client = ScavioClient(api_key="sk_live_your_key")
results = client.youtube.channel(channel_id="@LofiGirl")
print(results)

Response

"channel_id": "UCSJ4gkVC6NrvII8umztf0Ow",

"title": "Lofi Girl",

"description": "Lofi Girl, previously known as ChilledCow, is a channel focused on lofi hip hop and chillhop music to relax and study to.",

"handle": "@LofiGirl",

"url": "https://www.youtube.com/@LofiGirl",

"subscriber_count": 14700000,

"video_count": 993,

"view_count": 3456104200,

"country": "France",

"creation_date": "2015-03-18",

"verified": true,

"has_business_email": true,

"avatar": "https://yt3.googleusercontent.com/avatar=s800-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj",

"banner": "https://yt3.googleusercontent.com/banner=w2560-fcrop64",

"response_time": 1121,

"credits_used": 1,

"credits_remaining": 4753

}