The YouTube channel data your agent needs.
YouTube Channel returns a channel's profile and one tab of its videos, Shorts, live streams, playlists or posts. Choose the tab and the sort.
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YouTube Channel APIfor AI agents
One API call to read a YouTube channel. Get its profile and videos as JSON.
What people use it for.
Compare creators
Read subscribers, videos and totalViews for each channel on a list. Compare the numbers before you choose a creator to sponsor.
Watch for new uploads
Keep the default sort, latest, and run the call each day. A videoId that you have not saved is a new upload.
Find a channel's best videos
Set sort to popular. The views and title fields of the first results show which topics work for the channel.
More YouTube endpoints.
- SuggestionsGet YouTube search suggestions for a keyword
- SearchSearch YouTube videos, channels, playlists and shorts
- TranscriptGet what a YouTube video says, from its captions
- VideoGet a video's stats, description, chapters and most replayed moments
- CommentsGet a video's comments, or the replies to one comment
- Channel searchSearch one channel's videos, like the search box on its YouTube page
- Related videosGet the videos YouTube suggests next to a video, like its Up next list
- HashtagGet the videos on a YouTube hashtag page, like youtube.com/hashtag/sourdough
- PostGet a YouTube community post and its comments
- ChartsGet YouTube Charts: top songs, videos, artists, Shorts songs, podcasts or trending
- PlaylistGet a playlist and a page of its videos
- All YouTube endpointsOne API for YouTube data. Get videos, transcripts, comments and channels as JSON.
Ways to call it.
- Use the APISend a POST request with a Bearer key. Every endpoint returns success, data, creditsUsed and requestId.
- Use MCPAdd https://api.stophy.dev/mcp to Claude, Cursor or Codex. The agent finds an endpoint and calls it.
- Use the SDKInstall the TypeScript or Python client. Call an endpoint by its id, such as youtube.transcript.
- Use the CLICall an endpoint from the terminal. The CLI prints JSON, so you can pipe the result into a script.
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Questions and answers.
No. You call Stophy with a Stophy API key and a channel handle, id or link. You need no Google Cloud project.
The channel and a results list for one tab. The channel has channelId, channelName, channelUsername, description, subscribers, videos, totalViews, country and joinedDate.
tab takes videos, shorts, live, playlists, podcasts, releases or posts. The default is videos. The releases tab holds the albums of a music channel.
sort takes latest, popular or oldest. The sort applies to the videos, shorts and live tabs.
Send the cursor from the last response, with the same channel, tab and sort.
1 credit for each call that returns data. A call that returns an error uses 0 credits.
Yes. Add the MCP server at https://api.stophy.dev/mcp to Claude, Cursor or Codex. The agent calls the endpoint by the id youtubeChannel.
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