> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.influship.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Get Live YouTube Channel > Fetch fresh YouTube channel data including subscriber count, video count, and total views. **Pricing**: 0.5 credits per channel scraped ($0.005) ## OpenAPI ````yaml https://app.stainless.com/api/spec/documented/influship-api/openapi.documented.yml get /v1/raw/youtube/channel/{handle} openapi: 3.1.0 info: title: Influship API version: 1.0.0 description: > Public API for creator search, profile lookup, and campaign-fit analysis. ## Authentication Send your API key in the `X-API-Key` header on every authenticated request. ```bash curl -H "X-API-Key: your_api_key" https://api.influship.com/v1/creators/autocomplete?q=fitness ``` ## Billing and Rate Limits The API uses credit-based billing and credit-based rate limits. - every endpoint has a credit cost - successful responses include `X-Credits-Charged` and `X-Credits-Features` - rate limits are enforced with per-minute and per-hour credit budgets - rate limit state is returned in the `RateLimit-*` headers ## Pagination List endpoints use cursor pagination. - send `limit` to control page size - use `next_cursor` from the response to fetch the next page - stop when `has_more` is `false` Search has one special rule: - `POST /v1/search` creates a persisted search session - `GET /v1/search/{id}` paginates that session for free - free pagination is capped by the original search `limit` ## Errors Errors use a consistent shape: ```json { "error": { "code": "rate_limit_exceeded", "message": "Rate limit exceeded (per minute)" } } ``` See each operation for exact request and response schemas. contact: name: Influship Support email: support@influship.com license: name: Proprietary url: https://influship.com/terms servers: - url: https://api.influship.com description: Production security: - ApiKeyAuth: [] tags: - name: Health description: API health and status endpoints - name: Creators description: >- Retrieve creator profiles and discover new creators through search, autocomplete, and lookalike matching. Creators are cross-platform entities that may have profiles on multiple social networks. - name: Profiles description: >- Access individual social media profiles with detailed metrics, growth data, and activity information. Profiles are platform-specific accounts linked to creators. - name: Creator Emails description: >- Look up known creator email addresses by creator ID or social username. Empty or unresolved results are not billable. - name: Posts description: >- Retrieve and analyze social media posts with engagement metrics, media content, and performance data. - name: Search description: >- AI-powered semantic search to find creators using natural language queries. Understands intent and context to match creators based on content themes, audience, and style. - name: Live Scraping description: >- Fetch fresh data directly from social platforms in real-time. Use when you need the most current information or data for profiles not yet in our database. paths: /v1/raw/youtube/channel/{handle}: get: tags: - Live Scraping summary: Get Live YouTube Channel description: >- Fetch fresh YouTube channel data including subscriber count, video count, and total views. **Pricing**: 0.5 credits per channel scraped ($0.005) operationId: getLiveYouTubeChannel parameters: - schema: description: Include recent videos in response example: true type: boolean in: query name: include_videos description: Include recent videos in response - schema: default: 12 description: Number of videos to include example: 12 type: integer minimum: 1 maximum: 50 in: query name: video_limit description: Number of videos to include - schema: type: string minLength: 1 description: >- YouTube channel handle. Accepts a bare handle (`techreviews`), an `@handle` (`@techreviews`), or a full channel URL (`https://youtube.com/@techreviews`); surrounding share tokens and trailing paths are ignored. A value that is not a channel handle returns a 400 validation error. example: '@techreviews' in: path name: handle required: true description: >- YouTube channel handle. Accepts a bare handle (`techreviews`), an `@handle` (`@techreviews`), or a full channel URL (`https://youtube.com/@techreviews`); surrounding share tokens and trailing paths are ignored. A value that is not a channel handle returns a 400 validation error. responses: '200': description: Successful response content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/LiveYouTubeChannelResponse' '400': description: Validation error response content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error400' '401': description: Authentication error response content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error401' '403': description: Permission error response content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error403' '404': description: Not found error response content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error404' '429': description: >- Rate limit exceeded response. Check Retry-After header for backoff timing. Also returned (without RateLimit-* headers) when an IP is temporarily blocked after repeated failed authentication attempts. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error429' '500': description: Internal server error response content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error500' '503': description: >- Service unavailable response. Live data endpoints may return this for temporary upstream platform throttling; check Retry-After before retrying. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error503' x-codeSamples: - lang: JavaScript source: >- import Influship from 'influship'; const client = new Influship({ apiKey: process.env['INFLUSHIP_API_KEY'], // This is the default and can be omitted }); const response = await client.raw.youtube.getChannel('@techreviews'); console.log(response.data); - lang: Python source: |- import os from influship import Influship client = Influship( api_key=os.environ.get("INFLUSHIP_API_KEY"), # This is the default and can be omitted ) response = client.raw.youtube.get_channel( handle="@techreviews", ) print(response.data) components: schemas: LiveYouTubeChannelResponse: type: object properties: data: $ref: '#/components/schemas/LiveYouTubeChannelResponseData' required: - data additionalProperties: false Error400: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' description: Validation error response examples: - error: code: validation_error message: 'Invalid value for parameter ''limit'': must be between 1 and 100' param: limit request_id: 550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000 Error401: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' description: Authentication error response examples: - error: code: unauthorized message: API key missing or invalid request_id: 550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000 Error403: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' description: Permission error response examples: - error: code: forbidden message: Your plan does not include access to this endpoint request_id: 550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000 Error404: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' description: Not found error response examples: - error: code: not_found message: Creator with ID '123e4567-e89b-12d3-a456-426614174000' not found request_id: 550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000 Error429: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' description: >- Rate limit exceeded response. Check Retry-After header for backoff timing. Also returned (without RateLimit-* headers) when an IP is temporarily blocked after repeated failed authentication attempts. examples: - error: code: rate_limit_exceeded message: Rate limit exceeded (per minute) request_id: 550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000 - error: code: rate_limit_exceeded message: Rate limit exceeded (per hour) request_id: 550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440001 - error: code: rate_limit_exceeded message: Too many failed authentication attempts. Please try again later. request_id: 550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440002 Error500: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' description: Internal server error response examples: - error: code: internal_error message: An unexpected error occurred. Please try again later. request_id: 550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000 Error503: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' description: >- Service unavailable response. Live data endpoints may return this for temporary upstream platform throttling; check Retry-After before retrying. examples: - error: code: service_unavailable message: >- Live Instagram data is temporarily unavailable. Please retry shortly. request_id: 550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000 details: retry_after_seconds: 60 upstream_error: upstream_rate_limited LiveYouTubeChannelResponseData: type: object properties: channel_id: type: string description: YouTube channel ID example: UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ handle: type: - string - 'null' description: Channel handle (without @) example: mkbhd name: type: string description: Channel name example: Marques Brownlee description: type: string description: Channel description avatar_url: type: - string - 'null' description: Channel avatar URL banner_url: type: - string - 'null' description: Channel banner image URL country: type: - string - 'null' description: Channel country code example: US keywords: type: array items: type: string description: Channel keywords / tags subscribers: type: - integer - 'null' minimum: 0 maximum: 9007199254740991 description: Subscriber count example: 20900000 subscribers_text: type: - string - 'null' description: Subscriber count text as displayed by YouTube example: 20.9M subscribers videos_count: type: - integer - 'null' minimum: 0 maximum: 9007199254740991 description: Total video count example: 1500 views_total: type: - integer - 'null' minimum: 0 maximum: 9007199254740991 description: Total view count across all videos example: 4500000000 videos: type: array items: $ref: '#/components/schemas/YouTubeVideo' description: Recent videos (empty when include_videos=false) scraped_at: type: string format: date-time pattern: >- ^(?:(?:\d\d[2468][048]|\d\d[13579][26]|\d\d0[48]|[02468][048]00|[13579][26]00)-02-29|\d{4}-(?:(?:0[13578]|1[02])-(?:0[1-9]|[12]\d|3[01])|(?:0[469]|11)-(?:0[1-9]|[12]\d|30)|(?:02)-(?:0[1-9]|1\d|2[0-8])))T(?:(?:[01]\d|2[0-3]):[0-5]\d(?::[0-5]\d(?:\.\d+)?)?(?:Z|([+-](?:[01]\d|2[0-3]):[0-5]\d)))$ description: When this data was scraped example: '2024-01-15T14:30:00Z' required: - channel_id - handle - name - description - avatar_url - banner_url - country - keywords - subscribers - subscribers_text - videos_count - views_total - videos - scraped_at additionalProperties: false Error: type: object properties: error: type: object properties: code: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorCode' description: Machine-readable error code message: type: string description: Human-readable error message example: Request validation failed param: description: Parameter that caused the error (if applicable) example: query type: string request_id: description: Request ID for debugging example: 550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000 type: string details: description: Structured error context (e.g., field-level validation issues) type: object propertyNames: type: string additionalProperties: {} required: - code - message additionalProperties: false required: - error additionalProperties: false YouTubeVideo: type: object properties: video_id: type: string description: YouTube video ID example: dQw4w9WgXcQ title: type: string description: Video title example: Full Body Workout | 30 Minutes url: type: string description: Video URL example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ thumbnail_url: type: - string - 'null' description: Thumbnail URL published_text: type: - string - 'null' description: Relative publish time as displayed by YouTube example: 2 weeks ago duration_seconds: type: - integer - 'null' minimum: 0 maximum: 9007199254740991 description: Video duration in seconds example: 1845 duration_text: type: - string - 'null' description: Video duration text (e.g., "30:45") example: '30:45' view_count: type: - integer - 'null' minimum: 0 maximum: 9007199254740991 description: View count example: 125000 view_count_text: type: - string - 'null' description: View count text as displayed by YouTube example: 125K views required: - video_id - title - url - thumbnail_url - published_text - duration_seconds - duration_text - view_count - view_count_text additionalProperties: false ErrorCode: type: string enum: - validation_error - invalid_parameter - missing_parameter - unauthorized - forbidden - payment_required - not_found - rate_limit_exceeded - internal_error - service_unavailable - database_error - seed_not_found - invalid_seeds - seed_resolution_failed - lookalike_failed - get_profiles_failed - post_analysis_failed - match_failed - scraping_failed - transcript_unavailable description: Machine-readable error code for programmatic handling example: validation_error securitySchemes: ApiKeyAuth: type: apiKey in: header name: X-API-Key ````