What you can get from YouTube
| Endpoint | Input | Returns | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
/v1/youtube/profile | handle | Subscribers, exact video count, total views, join date, country, links | 1 credit |
/v1/youtube/posts | handle | A channel's videos or shorts with views, likes, comments and duration | 2 credits per 20 results |
/v1/youtube/post | id | One video by URL or id | 1 credit |
/v1/youtube/comments | id | Comments under a video | 2 credits per 20 results |
/v1/youtube/search | q | Video search, with language and country | 3 credits per 20 results |
Lists are charged only for the results that come back. Credit packs cost $0.99–$1.45 per 1,000 credits, lower on custom volume plans; see pricing.
Vanefeed vs the official YouTube API
The official YouTube Data API v3 is free but rationed: a project gets 10,000 quota units a day by default, and a single search costs 100 units, so about 100 searches a day. More quota requires Google's compliance audit.
Vanefeed has no daily quota: you pay per result in credits, and a channel's full video list or thousands of comments are a few calls away.
Example
curl "https://api.vanefeed.com/v1/youtube/posts?handle=%40TED&limit=20" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $VANEFEED_KEY"Every platform answers in the same shape: data (posts with author, text, published_at, metrics and media), plus next_cursor for the next page. Add dry_run=true to see the price first, free.
Good to know
- Only public content: no private accounts, messages or anything behind a login.
- One key covers every platform: TikTok API · X (Twitter) API · Instagram API · Reddit API · Facebook API · Telegram API · Bluesky API and news sites.
- Background reading: the YouTube API quota, explained.
Questions
Is there a daily limit?
No quota units. You pay credits per result returned, and the default rate limit is generous for normal use.
Can I get YouTube comments?
Yes, /v1/youtube/comments?id=VIDEO returns comments with likes and reply counts, up to 1,000 per call with a cursor for more.
Do I need a Google Cloud project or OAuth?
No. One Vanefeed key works for YouTube and every other platform.
Do failed calls cost credits?
No. Credits are only taken for successful answers, and every response shows what it cost in the X-Credits-Cost header. Repeats served from cache are free too.
Can I get sentiment with the data?
Yes: add sentiment=true to posts, comments or search and each result gets a positive, neutral or negative label with a confidence score, for 1 extra credit per 20 results.
100 free credits
Try every YouTube endpoint in the playground. No card needed.