YouTube Channel Videos API

List a channel's or profile's videos, Shorts, streams or playlists

Resolve a creator into a paginated list of videos (metadata only), newest first. A channel or profile that does not exist answers 404 not_found; an existing one with no uploads answers 200 with an empty list. The platform is read from the input: a YouTube channel, or a TikTok or Instagram profile URL. Every row's url is accepted by the transcript and batch endpoints as-is. Pass since_video_id to get back only the items newer than one you've already seen - a page with nothing new is free, which makes this safe to poll on a schedule. A YouTube channel also takes tab (its Shorts, live streams, playlists or podcasts instead of its videos), sort (popular or oldest first) and query (search inside the channel). The playlists and podcasts tabs answer with data.kind playlist_list, whose rows' urls the playlist endpoint accepts as-is.

Body parameters

curl https://transcriptfetch.com/api/v2/transcripts/channel \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $TRANSCRIPTFETCH_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"channel":"@lexfridman","limit":10}'

{
  "ok": true,
  "request_id": "req_…",
  "data": {
    "kind": "video_list",
    "source": "channel_videos",
    "platform": "youtube",
    "videos": [
      {
        "videoId": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
        "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
        "title": "Example video",
        "duration": 212,
        "channel": "Example Channel",
        "publishedAt": "2009-10-25T00:00:00Z",
        "stats": {
          "plays": 1600000000
        }
      }
    ],
    "next_cursor": "eyJvIjoxMH0"
  },
  "usage": {
    "credits_spent": 1,
    "balance": 98,
    "bytes": 0
  }
}