InsightSocial APIYouTube Channel Lives API reference
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Get a free API keycurl "https://api.insightsocial.app/v1/youtube/channel/lives?handle=IShowSpeed" \ -H "x-api-key: $INSIGHTSOCIAL_API_KEY"
Returns the live and past streams on a channel's Live tab, each with title, URL, thumbnail, view count, publish time, and duration.
Use it to track a channel's streaming output; channel/videos returns regular uploads and leaves the Live tab out.
Metered: 10–70 credits. We reserve the ceiling when the call starts and charge what it actually used when it finishes.
Paginates by cursor: see Pagination.
Authorization
apiKey Your key from the dashboard. It starts with isk_.
In: header
Query Parameters
YouTube channel ID. Provide at least one of: channelId, handle.
YouTube channel handle (with or without @). Provide at least one of: channelId, handle.
Set to engagement, channel, or both (engagement,channel) to fill more of every row in this one call. engagement fills post.engagement.views, .likes and .comments, post.content.duration_seconds, author.id and post.author.display_name where the row lacks them, and replaces a date derived from a label such as "4 months ago" with the exact publish time (removing post.ext.published_precision). Each join adds 0.2 to 0.7 seconds on a fresh page (one lookup per 50 ids, never more than 8 seconds).
Exact publish dates are on by default and free. Set to false to skip the lookup: those rows then carry the supplier's estimate (a day-granular or coarser label truncated to midnight UTC), marked by post.ext.published_precision and post.ext.published_label.
Value in
- "true"
- "false"
The pagination.next_cursor from the previous page, sent back unchanged. Omit it for the first page.
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.
Value in
- "1"
Response Body
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curl -X GET "https://api.insightsocial.app/v1/youtube/channel/lives"{ "success": true, "platform": "string", "endpoint": "string", "schema_version": "2", "pagination": { "next_cursor": "string", "has_more": true, "page_size": 0, "stopped_at": "since" }, "unavailable": [ "string" ], "credits_used": 0, "credits_remaining": 0, "request_id": "string", "cached": true, "idempotent_replay": true, "charge_reason": "string", "free_call": true, "data": { "items": [ { "post": { "id": "string", "url": "http://example.com", "kind": "string", "content": { "text": "string", "media_urls": [ "http://example.com" ], "thumbnail_url": "http://example.com", "duration_seconds": 0 }, "author": { "id": "string", "username": "string", "display_name": "string", "avatar_url": "http://example.com", "verified": true }, "engagement": { "views": 0, "likes": 0, "comments": 0, "shares": 0, "saves": 0 }, "flags": { "nsfw": true, "spoiler": true, "pinned": true, "deleted": true, "likes_hidden": true, "comments_hidden": true, "shares_hidden": true, "views_hidden": true, "saves_hidden": true }, "published_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z", "language": "string", "ext": { "property1": null, "property2": null } } } ], "total": 0, "truncated": true, "ext": { "property1": null, "property2": null } }}Channel › Community Posts GET
Returns the posts on a channel's Posts tab, each with post id, URL, text, images, attached video, like count, publish time, and channel info.
Channel › Playlists GET
Returns the playlists on a channel's Playlists tab, each with playlist id, title, thumbnail, video count, channel info, and playlist URL.