# Channel › About (/docs/api-reference/youtube/channel-about)

`GET https://api.insightsocial.app/v1/youtube/channel/about`

Returns the address behind a channel's View email address control on author.ext.public_email, its listed country, and the profile: id, handle, name, avatar, bio, URL, subscribers, join date, views.

Use it for outreach when GET /v1/youtube/channel returned no email: that lane reads only the public description, this one reads the About tab control. Premium priced, so shortlist first.

**250 credits** per call.

Send your key in the `x-api-key` header.

| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `channelId` | string | no | YouTube channel ID. Can pass a channelId, handle or url. Provide at least one of: `channelId`, `handle`, `url`. |
| `handle` | string | no | YouTube channel handle without the @ symbol. Provide at least one of: `channelId`, `handle`, `url`. |
| `url` | string | no | YouTube channel URL. Can pass a channelId, handle or url. Provide at least one of: `channelId`, `handle`, `url`. |
| `contact_email` | string | no | Optional. When 1, also returns author.ext.contact_email: when the bio lists two or more email addresses, the one the creator gives for contacting them personally, copied verbatim from the bio. Null when there is one address or none, when every address belongs to a manager, agency or brand, or when the choice was not confident. author.ext.public_email is unchanged. No extra credits. One of: 1. |
| `dry_run` | string | no | Set to 1 to get the price of this call without making it: data.dry_run carries credits_min and credits_max. Nothing is charged. One of: 1. |