Paste a channel URL or @handle. Get subscribers, total views, upload cadence, channel age, and recent video performance in one shot.
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We hit YouTube Data API v3 with your channel URL or handle. Same source YouTube Studio uses for analytics, but limited to fields YouTube exposes publicly. No scraping, no third-party hacks, no broken results when YouTube redesigns their pages.
Subscriber count (unless the channel has hidden it), total channel views, total video count, channel creation date, upload cadence inferred from recent videos, and the latest 8 uploads with view counts and durations. Enough to size up any channel in 5 seconds.
Niche research. Before you commit to a content angle, you want to know what's working in your category. Looking up 10 channels in your niche tells you average upload cadence, video lengths that work, content patterns. Cheaper than guessing.
Public stats are public. Use lookups to research competitors, study creators you admire, or vet potential collaborators. Don't use lookup data to harass or impersonate anyone. The API doesn't expose anything private and we wouldn't surface it if it did.
A single lookup is a moment. Real growth comes from watching your competitive landscape over time and adjusting before the gap widens.
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We call YouTube's official Data API v3 with your channel URL or handle and pull back the public stats Google publishes for that channel: subscriber count, total views, video count, channel age, and the most recent uploads. Nothing private. Nothing scraped. Same source YouTube Studio analytics use, but limited to the public-facing fields any visitor could see.
Anything that uniquely identifies the channel: a full URL like youtube.com/@channelname or youtube.com/channel/UCxxxxx, the @handle on its own, or the 24-character channel ID. Custom legacy URLs (youtube.com/c/somename, youtube.com/user/somename) work too. If you have just the channel name with no @, paste it as a handle and we'll resolve it.
Yes. YouTube lets channel owners opt into hidden subscriber counts, in which case the API returns zero. If a channel shows 0 subs but has obvious view counts and many videos, that's almost certainly a hidden-subs channel rather than a brand-new one.
We cache lookups for one hour to be kind to YouTube's API quota. Subscribers and view counts on YouTube don't update in real-time anyway. Big channels show counts that lag actual activity by minutes to hours, so a 1-hour cache is well within YouTube's own update cadence.
Yes. Shorts are uploaded to a regular channel, so the channel-level stats are the same. The recent uploads list mixes long-form and Shorts. Duration tells you which is which: anything under 60 seconds is a Short.
View counts on YouTube are live. As a video accumulates views, the API reflects them. Older videos can also drop in count if YouTube removes spam or fraudulent views, which the platform does silently in the background.
For point-in-time stats, yes. For historical tracking (sub graphs over weeks and months), no. We don't build the daily snapshots that Social Blade's projection charts depend on. If you need ongoing tracking of competitor channels with weekly insights, that's what YTGrowth's Competitor Analysis does as a paid feature.
Not in this free tool. Every lookup is one channel, one moment. If you want continuous tracking with weekly reports on channels in your niche (their upload cadence, top-performing titles, content gaps), that's exactly what Competitor Analysis is built for. Connect your channel for a free AI audit and you'll see how it fits with the rest of YTGrowth.
Free, forever. We charge nothing for lookups. Accuracy: same as the official YouTube Data API, which is what powers most third-party tools you already trust. The only differences from YouTube Studio's own numbers come from cache windows and YouTube's spam-view filtering. Both invisible from the outside.
No. Public stats are public. Channel owners do not get notified about API lookups. You can research competitors freely.