YouTube Channel Stats: Subscribers, Views, No API Key

Subscribers, total views, video count, age, country, description and contact links for any YouTube channel — plus the date of its last upload, so you can tell an active channel from a dormant one.

No Google Cloud project. No Data API key. No quota. No browser.

Why that matters

The YouTube Data API gives you 10,000 quota units a day and a channel lookup costs about 100. A list of two hundred channels burns a fifth of your daily quota, and when it runs out your pipeline stops until midnight Pacific.

This reads YouTube's own public channel pages. There is nothing to run out of.

What you paste

@mkbhd
mkbhd
https://www.youtube.com/@veritasium
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ
UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ

What you get back

field	notes
title, handle, channelId, channelUrl	who it is
subscriberCount	parsed integer, approximate — see below
subscriberCountText	exactly what YouTube printed
viewCount / viewCountText	lifetime views, exact
videoCount / videoCountText	public videos
joinedDateText	when the channel was created
latestVideoAt	when it last actually posted
country	as declared
description, keywords	what it says it is about
links	socials and sites from the About tab
avatarUrl, bannerUrl, isFamilySafe

Two honest notes on the numbers

Subscriber counts are rounded by YouTube, not by us. The page says "21.1M subscribers", so subscriberCount is 21,100,000 and the real figure is somewhere in a band about a hundred thousand wide. You get both the parsed number, so you can sort and filter, and the original string, so nobody mistakes a rounded figure for an exact one. Total views and video counts are printed in full and are exact.

A channel that hides its subscriber count returns no number at all. Not zero. minSubscribers therefore excludes it, and maxSubscribers keeps it, because an unknown count is not evidence of a small channel or a large one.

Why latestVideoAt is here

A channel with two million subscribers that has posted nothing in fourteen months is a completely different proposition from one posting weekly, and YouTube's About page does not tell you which you are looking at. This costs one extra request per channel and you can turn it off with includeLatestVideoDate.

Good for

• Sponsorship and influencer scouting — size, activity and contact links in one row, filterable by subscriber band and country
• Competitor tracking — who is growing, who has gone quiet
• Media buying — building a shortlist without opening 200 tabs
• Enriching a channel list you already have from somewhere else

Related

YouTube Latest Videos — the sibling. This Actor tells you what a channel is; that one tells you what it recently published, with live view counts per video. Same wedge: no API key, no quota.

Pricing

Pay per channel returned. Nothing else: not the run, not filtered channels, not a handle that turns out not to exist.