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List a YouTube channel's videos

Run job:youtube.channel.videos through the looot API: 4 providers, from $0.001 per call. Inputs, prices, output shape and code for curl, JavaScript and Python.

List a YouTube channel’s videos.

Job id youtube.channel.videos, in Social data (YouTube). As of 2026-10-01, 4 providers serve it through 4 tools. Run job:youtube.channel.videos and looot picks one of them; with fallback on, a miss moves on to the next. See Jobs.

Inputs

Fields the job’s tools take, most shared first. Any key you send passes through unchanged.

Name Type Taken by Required by Description
channel_id string 2 of 4 2 Channel ID
channel string 1 of 4 1 YouTube channel URL, alias, or ID. Example: “@phenomenal_es”
channelId string 1 of 4 0 YouTube channel ID.
continuation_token string 1 of 4 0 Pagination token for next page
continuationToken string 1 of 4 0 Continuation token to get more videos. Get ‘continuationToken’ from previous response.
count integer 1 of 4 0 Max number of videos to fetch
country_code string 1 of 4 0 Country code
engine string 1 of 4 0 Fixed to “youtube_channel_videos” for this endpoint. Example: “youtube_channel_videos”
gl string 1 of 4 0
handle string 1 of 4 0 YouTube channel handle.
hl string 1 of 4 0
includeExtras string 1 of 4 0 This will get you the like + comment count and the description. To get the full details of the video, use the /v1/youtube/video endpoint. Honestly, if you use this param, the error rate is higher. We might deprecate this param in the future. Example: “false”
is_paid_promotions string 1 of 4 0 Set to ‘true’ to search YouTube’s public paid product placement / sponsorship / endorsement search surface. This returns normal YouTube videos where the creator declared paid promotion. Cannot be combined with filter, uploadDate, sortBy, type, duration, or includeExtras. Example: “false”
language_code string 1 of 4 0 Language code
need_format boolean 1 of 4 0 Whether to clean and format the data

Providers and prices

A call that fails at the provider costs $0. See What’s free.

Output

Each provider answers in its own shape. Shape of the run’s result from tikhub-api-youtube-web-v2-get-channel-videos, the expected shape, not yet checked against real answers:

{ code, data: { videos: { url, title, is_live, duration, video_id, thumbnail, thumbnails: { ... }[], view_count, description, is_verified, playback_url, published_time, moving_thumbnail, short_view_count, duration_accessibility }[], channel: { id, url, name, avatar, rss_url, keywords, handle_url, description, is_verified, is_family_safe } }, docs, time, params: { channel_id, language_code }, router, message, support, cache_url, time_zone, message_zh, request_id, time_stamp, cache_message, cache_message_zh }

Run it

Every call needs your API token in LOOOT_TOKEN; Sign in shows how to get one. Each run also needs a new idempotency key, so a retry never pays twice. With wait: 30 the answer comes back inline when the run ends within 30 seconds. Otherwise you get the running run back: poll GET /v1/runs/<runId>.

Example input with placeholder values:

curl -X POST "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LOOOT_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -d '{"endpointId":"job:youtube.channel.videos","input":{"channel_id":"<channel_id>"},"wait":30}'
const response = await fetch("https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.LOOOT_TOKEN}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Idempotency-Key": crypto.randomUUID(),
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    endpointId: "job:youtube.channel.videos",
    input: {
      channel_id: "<channel_id>",
    },
    wait: 30,
  }),
});
const run = await response.json();
console.log(run.status, run.result);
import os
import uuid

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['LOOOT_TOKEN']}",
        "Idempotency-Key": str(uuid.uuid4()),
    },
    json={
        "endpointId": "job:youtube.channel.videos",
        "input": {
            "channel_id": "<channel_id>",
        },
        "wait": 30,
    },
    timeout=90,
)
run = response.json()
print(run["status"], run.get("result"))

To pin one provider, send its tool id as endpointId instead of job:youtube.channel.videos.

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