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title: "Get YouTube channel description"
description: "TikHub tool tikhub-api-youtube-web-v2-get-channel-description on looot: input fields, $0.001 per call, output shape, and code to run it with curl, JavaScript or Python."
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Returns a YouTube channel's about info. Send `channel_id` to get basic info (name, description, subscribers, video count, avatar, banner) and a `continuation_token`, then send that token to get join date, social links, country and view count. Optional `language_code`, `country_code` and `need_format`.

- **Tool id:** `tikhub-api-youtube-web-v2-get-channel-description`
- **Provider:** [TikHub](/providers/tikhub)
- **Job:** [Get channel description api youtube web v2](/reference/jobs/api-youtube-web-v2-get-channel-description) (`api.youtube.web-v2.get-channel-description`)
- **Price:** $0.001 per call. A call that fails at the provider costs $0.

## Inputs

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `channel_id` | string | no | Channel ID, can be obtained from channel URL via get_channel_id endpoint. |
| `continuation_token` | string | no | Continuation token for getting advanced info like channel creation date |
| `country_code` | string | no | Country code. Example: "US" |
| `language_code` | string | no | Language code. Example: "zh-CN" |
| `need_format` | boolean | no | Whether to clean and format the data. Example: true |

## Output

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

```txt
{ code, data: { links: unknown[], title, avatar: unknown[], banner: unknown[], handle, country, keywords, channel_id, vanity_url, view_count, channel_url, description, video_count, creation_date, subscriber_count }, docs, time, params: { channel_id, country_code, 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](/get-started/sign-in#use-the-token-in-scripts-and-agents) 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:

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```bash curl
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":"tikhub-api-youtube-web-v2-get-channel-description","input":{"channel_id":"<channel_id>","need_format":true,"country_code":"US","language_code":"zh-CN"},"wait":30}'
```

```js JavaScript
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: "tikhub-api-youtube-web-v2-get-channel-description",
    input: {
      channel_id: "<channel_id>",
      need_format: true,
      country_code: "US",
      language_code: "zh-CN",
    },
    wait: 30,
  }),
});
const run = await response.json();
console.log(run.status, run.result);
```

```python Python
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": "tikhub-api-youtube-web-v2-get-channel-description",
        "input": {
            "channel_id": "<channel_id>",
            "need_format": True,
            "country_code": "US",
            "language_code": "zh-CN",
        },
        "wait": 30,
    },
    timeout=90,
)
run = response.json()
print(run["status"], run.get("result"))
```

</CodeGroup>

To let looot pick among every provider of this job instead, send `job:api.youtube.web-v2.get-channel-description` as `endpointId`; see [the job page](/reference/jobs/api-youtube-web-v2-get-channel-description).