InsightSocial API
YouTube

YouTube Channel Videos API reference

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Example request
curl "https://api.insightsocial.app/v1/youtube/channel/videos?handle=MrBeast" \
  -H "x-api-key: $INSIGHTSOCIAL_API_KEY"
GET
/v1/youtube/channel/videos

Returns recent videos published by a channel, each with title, view count, duration, thumbnail, and publish date; pass includeExtras=true to add like and comment counts.

Use it for a channel's regular uploads; channel/shorts covers Shorts, channel/lives covers streams, channel/community-posts covers text posts.

Metered: 10–20 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
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 without the @ symbol. Provide at least one of: channelId, handle.

since?string

Only videos published on or after this date: YYYY-MM-DD (midnight UTC) or an ISO 8601 timestamp. Older videos are left off the page, and the page that reaches one ends the walk: next_cursor is not returned and pagination.stopped_at is since. Pinned videos sit out of date order and never end the walk. The page still costs what a page costs, so a daily poll pays for the pages it walks and no more.

stop_at_id?string

The id (post.id) or URL (post.url) of the newest video you already hold. The page stops just before it: that video and everything after it are left off, next_cursor is not returned, and pagination.stopped_at is known_id. A pinned video never counts as the stop point. If it is not on this page the page is returned in full with its cursor, so keep walking. pagination.stopped_at is end when the list ran out first and null while there is more to walk.

sort?string

Sort by latest or popular

Value in

  • "latest"
  • "popular"
includeExtras?string

Set to true to add the like count and comment count (post.engagement.likes / .comments) and the video description (post.ext.description). For the full per-video detail use /v1/youtube/video. Slows the response slightly.

is_paid_promotions?string

Set to 'true' to search YouTube's public paid product placement / sponsorship / endorsement surface: returns normal videos where the creator disclosed a paid promotion.

include?"channel"

Set to channel (one token only) to add the channel's subscriber count to every row (post.ext.author_followers, YouTube's own figure, rounded to three significant figures above 1,000) plus post.author.display_name, .avatar_url and author.id where missing. Adds well under a second (never more than 8).

Value in

  • "channel"
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.

Value in

  • "true"
  • "false"
cursor?string

The pagination.next_cursor from the previous page, sent back unchanged. Omit it for the first page.

dry_run?"1"

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

application/json

application/json

application/json

application/json

application/json

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application/json

application/json

curl -X GET "https://api.insightsocial.app/v1/youtube/channel/videos"
{  "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 › Shorts GET

Returns the Shorts published by a channel, each with title, view count, like count, and thumbnail.

Channel GET

Returns a YouTube channel's public profile: subscriber count on author.followers (rounded above 1,000), video and view totals, description, banner and avatar URLs, and author.ext.public_email.