Bright Data / Get a YouTube channel

Bright Data tool brightdata-youtube-channel on looot: input fields, $0.0015 per result, output shape, and code to run it with curl, JavaScript or Python.

Returns a YouTube channel from its URL (youtube.com/@{handle}) with Bright Data’s scraper. Send input, a list of objects with url; a job run takes url instead. Returns one record per URL: name, handle, description, subscribers, total views, video count, creation date, links and top videos. Slow targets can take a few minutes.

• Tool id: brightdata-youtube-channel
• Provider: Bright Data
• Job: Get a YouTube channel’s subscriber and view stats (youtube.channel.stats)
• Price: $0.0015 per result. A call that fails at the provider costs $0.

Inputs

Output

Shape of the run’s result, the expected shape, not yet checked against real answers:

{ snapshot_id } | [ { id, url, name, Links, input, views, handle, Details, timestamp, banner_img, handle_md5, identifier, top_videos, Description, has_podcast, subscribers, created_date, videos_count, profile_image, collaborations, featured_video, featured_channels } ]

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":"brightdata-youtube-channel","input":{"input":[]},"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: "brightdata-youtube-channel",
    input: {
      input: [],
    },
    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": "brightdata-youtube-channel",
        "input": {
            "input": [],
        },
        "wait": 30,
    },
    timeout=90,
)
run = response.json()
print(run["status"], run.get("result"))

To let looot pick among every provider of this job instead, send job:youtube.channel.stats as endpointId; see the job page.