YouTube channel viewer
Enter a handle, a channel ID, or any channel URL to see subscribers, total views, upload count, description, external links, and the most recent uploads with their view counts.
How this works
This reads the channel's public About page — the same page you see logged out — and normalises it into a Creator object. That object has identical field names on every platform we support, so the code you write against a YouTube channel works unchanged against a TikTok or Instagram profile.
Subscriber counts above a thousand are rounded by YouTube itself, so that rounded figure is what any tool can report. Where a number simply is not published, you get null rather than a zero — those are different facts and conflating them quietly ruins any average built on top.
A lookup is a snapshot. If what you actually need is to know when a channel changes, subscribe to it once and take a webhook instead of running this on a cron:
curl -X POST "$API/v1/subscriptions" \
-H "x-api-key: $KEY" -H "content-type: application/json" \
-d '{
"endpoint": "youtube.channel",
"params": { "handle": "@mkbhd" },
"webhook_url": "https://you.example/hooks/social"
}'Questions
- What can I look up?
- A handle like @mrbeast, a channel ID starting with UC, or any channel URL. All three resolve to the same channel.
- Are the subscriber counts exact?
- No, and nobody has exact ones. YouTube itself rounds public subscriber counts above 1,000, so that rounded figure is what every tool including this one reports.
- Can I see channels that are private or terminated?
- No. This reads the same public page you would see logged out. If a channel is not publicly visible, the tool says so.
- How do I track a channel over time?
- Not with this page — it is a one-shot lookup. The API has subscriptions: POST /v1/subscriptions with a channel and a webhook URL, and you get a call when something changes. Polls we make on your behalf are free.