YouTube Channel API docs

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Platform API endpoint with unified authentication and usage tracking.

Production API

Platform API endpoint

https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/api/youtube/channel

Authorization header

Authorization: Bearer $SANDBASE_API_KEY

# The quoted heredoc keeps Unicode and shell metacharacters unchanged.
result=$(curl --fail-with-body --silent \
  -X POST "https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/api/youtube/channel" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SANDBASE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data-binary @- <<'SANDBASE_JSON'
{
  "handle": "@mkbhd"
}
SANDBASE_JSON
)
printf '%s\n' "$result"

2. Authentication

Set your SandBase API key in your server environment. Requests use Bearer authentication.

API key environment variable

export SANDBASE_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY"

Keep your key on the server. Do not expose it in browser code.

3. Parameters

`handle`string

YouTube channel handle.

`channelId`string

YouTube channel ID (UC...). Pass it directly when you have it: some sources accept only the ID and otherwise look up the handle first, which adds a step.

`requireFields`array

Optional; omit it and routing is unchanged, with the cheapest source serving. Name the output fields this request must be able to return, for example `views`, and it is served only by a source that returns every one of them. Fields you do not name are still returned whenever the serving source has them. This can raise your price: when the cheapest source cannot return a named field, a dearer source serves, and you are quoted and charged its price. A named field can still be absent on a record that genuinely lacks it. Naming a combination that no single source returns together is refused as invalid input, with no charge.

4. Response

Saved example response for this API; no live request is made when viewing it.

No saved response has been published. Run the API in Playground to inspect its response.