YouTube Channel Videos API. Videos, shorts and live streams, page by page.
Videos, shorts and live streams of a channel. We handle the proxies, blocks and platform changes.
YouTube Channel Videos API at a glance
Returns a public YouTube channel's videos, shorts or live streams a page at a time, newest, oldest or most popular first. Each upload has its link, title, thumbnail, length, views and upload time, and the newest also have exact times, view and like counts and descriptions. Accepts a handle, any channel link or a channel ID.
GET /v1/youtube/posts
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- 22 typed fields null when unknown
- 48 videos, shorts and live streams per page, newest first
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$ npm install socialtaphandle = @MrBeastconst params = new URLSearchParams({
handle: "@jawed",
});
const res = await fetch(`https://socialtap.dev/v1/youtube/posts?${params}`, {
headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.SOCIALTAP_API_KEY ?? "" },
});
const body = await res.json();
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`${body.error.code}: ${body.error.message}`);
const { data, page, meta } = body;
console.log(data, meta.credits_charged);import os
import requests
res = requests.get(
"https://socialtap.dev/v1/youtube/posts",
params={"handle": "@jawed"},
headers={"x-api-key": os.environ["SOCIALTAP_API_KEY"]},
)
body = res.json()
if not res.ok:
raise RuntimeError(f"{body['error']['code']}: {body['error']['message']}")
data, page, meta = body["data"], body["page"], body["meta"]
print(data, meta["credits_charged"])require "json"
require "net/http"
uri = URI("https://socialtap.dev/v1/youtube/posts")
uri.query = URI.encode_www_form('handle' => '@jawed')
req = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri)
req["x-api-key"] = ENV.fetch("SOCIALTAP_API_KEY")
res = Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port, use_ssl: uri.scheme == "https") { |http| http.request(req) }
body = JSON.parse(res.body)
raise "#{body["error"]["code"]}: #{body["error"]["message"]}" unless res.is_a?(Net::HTTPSuccess)
pp body["data"]
puts body["meta"]["credits_charged"]<?php
$query = http_build_query([
'handle' => '@jawed',
]);
$ch = curl_init('https://socialtap.dev/v1/youtube/posts?' . $query);
curl_setopt_array($ch, [
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => ['x-api-key: ' . getenv('SOCIALTAP_API_KEY')],
]);
$body = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), true);
if (curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_RESPONSE_CODE) >= 400) {
throw new RuntimeException($body['error']['code'] . ': ' . $body['error']['message']);
}
print_r($body['data']);
echo $body['meta']['credits_charged'], PHP_EOL;package main
import (
"encoding/json"
"fmt"
"log"
"net/http"
"net/url"
"os"
)
func main() {
q := url.Values{}
q.Set("handle", "@jawed")
req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://socialtap.dev/v1/youtube/posts?"+q.Encode(), nil)
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
req.Header.Set("x-api-key", os.Getenv("SOCIALTAP_API_KEY"))
res, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
defer res.Body.Close()
var body struct {
Data json.RawMessage `json:"data"`
Page json.RawMessage `json:"page"`
Meta map[string]any `json:"meta"`
Error *struct {
Code string `json:"code"`
Message string `json:"message"`
} `json:"error"`
}
if err := json.NewDecoder(res.Body).Decode(&body); err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
if body.Error != nil {
log.Fatalf("%s: %s", body.Error.Code, body.Error.Message)
}
fmt.Println(string(body.Data), body.Meta["credits_charged"])
}curl -G 'https://socialtap.dev/v1/youtube/posts' \
--data-urlencode 'handle=@jawed' \
-H "x-api-key: $SOCIALTAP_API_KEY"{
"data": [
{
"approximate_fields": [],
"author": {
"avatar_url": "https://yt3.googleusercontent.com/uI3VE4PVqvCy0xnWLqMJnEzyBUm3T8VHOCp4ee-1RxdHqKXCdUE_qXYQnpf9AfuEoIPactVyDhM=s900-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj",
"display_name": "jawed",
"id": "UC4QobU6STFB0P71PMvOGN5A",
"is_verified": null,
"url": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4QobU6STFB0P71PMvOGN5A",
"username": "jawed"
},
"coauthors": [],
"duration_ms": 19000,
"hashtags": [],
"id": "jNQXAC9IVRw",
"is_nsfw": null,
"is_pinned": null,
"is_sponsored": null,
"language": null,
"media": [
{
"alt_text": null,
"duration_ms": 19000,
"expires_at": null,
"height": 360,
"thumbnail_url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jNQXAC9IVRw/hqdefault.jpg",
"type": "video",
"url": null,
"width": 480
}
],
"mentions": [],
"metrics": {
"comment_count": null,
"like_count": 20117813,
"quote_count": null,
"repost_count": null,
"save_count": null,
"share_count": null,
"view_count": 446865949
},
"platform": "youtube",
"platform_specific": {
"youtube": {
"author_subscriber_count": null,
"category": null,
"chapters": [],
"description_links": [
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PT5c1z3LL8",
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRBN_4L09Mg"
],
"is_age_restricted": null,
"is_live_now": null,
"is_paywalled": null,
"is_unlisted": null,
"keywords": [],
"live_ended_at": null,
"live_started_at": null,
"scheduled_start_at": null
}
},
"platform_type": "video",
"published_at": "2005-04-24T03:31:52Z",
"text": "Microplastics are accumulating in human brains at an alarming rate\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PT5c1z3LL8\n\n“Nanoplastics and Human Health” with Matthew J Campen, PhD, MSPH\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRBN_4L09Mg\n\n00:00 Intro\n00:05 The cool thing\n00:17 End",
"thumbnail_url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jNQXAC9IVRw/hqdefault.jpg",
"title": "Me at the zoo",
"type": "video",
"unknown_fields": [
"coauthors",
"platform_specific.youtube.keywords",
"platform_specific.youtube.chapters"
],
"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw"
}
],
"page": {
"has_more": false,
"next_cursor": null,
"next_cursor_expires_at": null,
"end_reason": "end"
},
"meta": {
"request_id": "req_3f9c2a7d1e8b4c6a9f0e2d4b6a8c0e1f",
"platform": "youtube",
"source": "api",
"is_cached": false,
"credits_charged": 1,
"latency_ms": 442,
"fetched_at": "2026-10-25T12:00:00Z",
"input": {
"kind": "profile",
"id": "UC4QobU6STFB0P71PMvOGN5A",
"url": "https://www.youtube.com/@jawed"
},
"credits_remaining": 9999,
"client_request_id": null,
"warnings": []
}
}import { SocialTap } from "socialtap";
const client = new SocialTap(); // apiKey defaults to process.env.SOCIALTAP_API_KEY
const res = await client.youtube.posts.list({ handle: "@jawed" });
console.log(res.data);
console.log(res.credits.charged, res.meta.request_id);import java.net.URI;
import java.net.URLEncoder;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;
import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
String query = "handle=" + encode("@jawed");
HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
.uri(URI.create("https://socialtap.dev/v1/youtube/posts?" + query))
.header("x-api-key", System.getenv("SOCIALTAP_API_KEY"))
.GET()
.build();
HttpResponse<String> response = HttpClient.newHttpClient()
.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
// An error is {"error": {"code", "message", ...}}; success is {data, meta}, meta.credits_charged its price.
if (response.statusCode() >= 400) throw new RuntimeException(response.body());
System.out.println(response.body());
}
static String encode(String value) {
return URLEncoder.encode(value, StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
}
}using System.Text.Json;
using var http = new HttpClient();
http.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("x-api-key", Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("SOCIALTAP_API_KEY"));
var query = string.Join("&",
"handle=" + Uri.EscapeDataString("@jawed"));
var res = await http.GetAsync("https://socialtap.dev/v1/youtube/posts?" + query);
using var body = JsonDocument.Parse(await res.Content.ReadAsStringAsync());
if (!res.IsSuccessStatusCode)
{
var error = body.RootElement.GetProperty("error");
throw new Exception($"{error.GetProperty("code")}: {error.GetProperty("message")}");
}
Console.WriteLine(body.RootElement.GetProperty("data"));
Console.WriteLine(body.RootElement.GetProperty("meta").GetProperty("credits_charged"));// Cargo.toml: reqwest = { version = "0.12", features = ["blocking", "json"] }, serde_json = "1"
use std::env;
fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
let res = reqwest::blocking::Client::new()
.get("https://socialtap.dev/v1/youtube/posts")
.query(&[("handle", "@jawed")])
.header("x-api-key", env::var("SOCIALTAP_API_KEY")?)
.send()?;
let ok = res.status().is_success();
let body: serde_json::Value = res.json()?;
if !ok {
return Err(format!("{}: {}", body["error"]["code"], body["error"]["message"]).into());
}
println!("{} {}", body["data"], body["meta"]["credits_charged"]);
Ok(())
}200 OK · GET https://socialtap.dev/v1/youtube/postsDocs One schema on 21 platforms.
The response reference lists every field, its type and when it is null. See the full schema.
Null means unknown
A field YouTube doesn't show is null, never zero or an empty string, so a real zero always means zero.
What it accepts
YouTube channel: a handle with or without the @, any channel link (@handle, /channel/UC…, legacy /c/, /user/ and root vanity links, any tab, m. and music. hosts), a bare UC… channel ID, or c/<name>, user/<name>, vanity/<name>.
Write one parser
YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and 18 more platforms answer in these fields, so the code that reads one reads them all.
platformstring- Platform ID (tiktok, youtube, …).
idstring- Platform-native post ID (string; Instagram shortcode, Reddit with its t3_ prefix).
urlstring- Canonical post URL.
typestring- Normalized content shape. New values may be added; treat unknown values as other.
platform_typestring- The platform's own product label, lowercase (reel, short, story, live, tweet, …).
titlestring- Headline (YouTube title, Reddit title); null on caption-only platforms.
textstring- Caption, description or body as plain text.
languagestring- BCP-47 language of text, when the platform states it.
Live data from 33 platforms.
What teams build with the YouTube Channel Videos API.
Monitor a channel for new uploads
Export a creator's full video catalog
Find a channel's most viewed videos or shorts
Follow channels' upcoming streams and premieres
Good to know before you build.
- Each tab's newest uploads (up to 15) are exact, from YouTube's uploads feed. Beyond them published_at comes from a relative label (the day of the latest time it allows, at midnight UTC; the hour for a label in hours) and views are rounded, both in approximate_fields, text and metrics.like_count are null, and a non-English title may be YouTube's English translation.
- When the uploads feed does not answer, the newest uploads are read like the rest and a partial_data warning names the fields left null.
- Shorts beyond the newest have no published_at or duration_ms, so since and until are refused with tab=shorts. Streams live now or scheduled have no view count.
- A channel without the tab returns an empty page. A tab in a pasted link is ignored, so set tab.
- The live tab lists upcoming and live streams first, then past streams by when they streamed. With tab=live, since and until filter the streams instead of ending the walk, so it reads further.
1 credit per page. Failed requests are free.
Buy credits once and spend them on any endpoint, on any platform.
| Source | Price per successful page | Per 1,000 pages |
|---|---|---|
| Any source | 1 credit | $0.75–$1.97 |
- Cache hits are free.
- Credits from packs and top-ups never expire.
- A monthly plan's credits are spent first, and what is left of them ends at each renewal.
- Prices exclude tax: sales tax is added at checkout where it applies.
- Outside the US, plans and packs are sold to businesses: checkout asks for your VAT, GST or other business tax ID.
Questions about the YouTube Channel Videos API.
More in the API reference.
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