Get channel — YouTube API

Returns a public YouTube channel: name, handle, description, avatar, banner, subscriber and video counts, links, and RSS feed.

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GET/v1/youtube/channels/{channel}1 credit per request

Example response200OK

{
  "data": {
    "@context": [
      "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#",
      "https://konbiniapi.com/ns/social#"
    ],
    "type": "Person",
    "id": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX6OQ3DkcsbYNE6H8uQQuVA",
    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX6OQ3DkcsbYNE6H8uQQuVA",
    "entityId": "UCX6OQ3DkcsbYNE6H8uQQuVA",
    "preferredUsername": "@MrBeast",
    "name": "MrBeast",
    "content": "SUBSCRIBE FOR A COOKIE!\nNew MrBeast or MrBeast Gaming video every single Saturday at noon eastern time!\nAccomplishments:\n- Raised $20,000,000 To Plant 20,000,000 Trees\n- Removed 30,000,000 pounds of trash from the ocean\n- Helped 2,000 people walk again\n- Helped 1,000 blind…",
    "followerCount": 522000000,
    "videoCount": 1000,
    "isAdult": false,
    "icon": {
      "type": "Image",
      "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/plN7JMbadRg/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCKgBEF5IWvKriqkDGQgBFQAAiEIYAdgBAeIBCggYEAIYBjgBQAE=&rs=AOn4CLCiT6Vj47A7NogeJusgz-_sjWhu7A",
      "width": 168,
      "height": 94
    },
    "image": [
      {
        "type": "Image",
        "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/plN7JMbadRg/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCKgBEF5IWvKriqkDGQgBFQAAiEIYAdgBAeIBCggYEAIYBjgBQAE=&rs=AOn4CLCiT6Vj47A7NogeJusgz-_sjWhu7A",
        "width": 168,
        "height": 94
      }
    ],
    "tag": [
      {
        "type": "Tag",
        "name": "mrbeast6000"
      }
    ],
    "availableIn": [
      "US"
    ],
    "attachment": [
      {
        "type": "Link",
        "href": "https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCX6OQ3DkcsbYNE6H8uQQuVA",
        "rel": "alternate",
        "mediaType": "application/rss+xml"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Make the request.

One authenticated GET to /v1/youtube/channels/{channel}. Authentication and error conventions stay consistent across endpoints. This page shows the path, parameters, response shape, limits, and credit rule for this operation.

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Full reference for this endpoint

const response = await fetch("https://api.konbiniapi.com/v1/youtube/channels/@MrBeast", {
  headers: { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" }
});

const data = await response.json();

Parameters2

channelrequiredIn · PathType · stringChannel handle, with or without the @: the name in a channel URL. If you pass channelId, this is ignored and any placeholder works.
channelIdIn · QueryType · stringLook up the channel by its UC… ID instead of its handle. If you already have the ID (e.g. from a video's attributedTo in another response), passing it here returns the channel faster than a handle lookup. When set, it overrides the handle in the URL.

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