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Get YouTube channel stats

Get a YouTube channel's stats and profile from a @handle, channel id (UC...) or channel URL. Returns channel_id, handle, name, description, subscribers, video_count, view_count, joined, country, channel_url, avatar, rss_url, is_family_safe, keywords and links. Subscribers is the abbreviated public figure (e.g. 4.51m becomes 4510000, approximate), while video_count and view_count are exact; joined is a display string (e.g. "1 Feb 2015") and each link's url is the display host without scheme.

Input

channel required

A @handle (e.g. @RickAstleyYT or RickAstleyYT), a channel id (UC…), or a full channel URL.

Output

name required
channel_id required
links optional
avatar optional
handle optional
joined optional
country optional
rss_url optional
keywords optional
view_count optional
channel_url optional
description optional
subscribers optional

Approximate, parsed from YouTube's abbreviated public count.

video_count optional
is_family_safe optional
subscribers_text optional

FAQ

Get a YouTube channel's stats and profile from a @handle, channel id (UC...) or channel URL. Returns channel_id, handle, name, description, subscribers, video_count, view_count, joined, country, channel_url, avatar, rss_url, is_family_safe, keywords and links. Subscribers is the abbreviated public figure (e.g. 4.51m becomes 4510000, approximate), while video_count and view_count are exact; joined is a display string (e.g. "1 Feb 2015") and each link's url is the display host without scheme.
Required: channel.
It returns name, links, avatar, handle, joined, country, rss_url, keywords, channel_id, view_count, channel_url, description, subscribers, video_count, is_family_safe, subscribers_text.
No. It only uses pages of youtube.com that are reachable without signing in.
It only reads. It looks things up on youtube.com and changes nothing there.
Ask an AI agent connected to Reduck to run reduck/youtube.com/get_channel, or run it from a terminal with the Reduck CLI: npx @reduck-ai/cli@latest run --script reduck/youtube.com/get_channel
It is part of Reduck's official curated catalogue.

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