InsightSocial API
YouTube

Channel › Lives

GET
/v1/youtube/channel/lives

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: 20–140 credits. We reserve the ceiling when the call starts and charge what it actually used when it finishes.

Re-running the exact same call within 6h is free.

Paginates by cursor — see Pagination.

Authorization

apiKey
x-api-key<token>

Your key from the dashboard. It starts with isk_.

In: header

Query Parameters

channelId?string

YouTube channel ID. Provide at least one of: channelId, handle.

handle?string

YouTube channel handle (with or without @). Provide at least one of: channelId, handle.

continuationToken?string

Continuation token from a previous response: fetches the next page.

include?string

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, post.ext.channel_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). Read data.hydration for the rows, lookups, credits held and kept, and the time.

exact_dates?string

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. A row the lookup could not resolve keeps that estimate and marker, and _warnings carries exact_dates_partial (some rows) or exact_dates_unavailable (none).

Value in

  • "true"
  • "false"

Response Body

application/json

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curl -X GET "https://example.com/v1/youtube/channel/lives"
{  "success": true,  "platform": "instagram",  "endpoint": "/v1/instagram/profile/posts",  "data": {    "items": [      "…"    ],    "dropped": 0  },  "pagination": {    "next_cursor": "is2.eyJwIjoyfQ",    "has_more": true,    "page_size": 12  },  "credits_used": 20,  "credits_remaining": 9980,  "request_id": "req_1a2b3c4d5e6f",  "cached": false,  "idempotent_replay": false,  "charge_reason": "miss",  "free_call": false}

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. Use it to read a channel's text and image posts in bulk; community-post fetches one post when you already have its URL. **20 credits** per call. Re-running the exact same call within 6h is free. Paginates by `cursor` — see [Pagination](/docs/pagination).

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. Use it to discover a channel's playlists, then pass a returned playlist id to playlist or playlist/items to read the videos inside one. **20 credits** per call. Re-running the exact same call within 6h is free. Paginates by `cursor` — see [Pagination](/docs/pagination).