# fetcher.sh YouTube Channel API

> fetcher.sh YouTube Channel API is a paid API for AI agents from youtube.fetcher.sh, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Fetches YouTube channel data by channel path/handle without requiring OAuth or a Google account

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://youtube.fetcher.sh/api/channel/path
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/fetcher-sh-youtube-channel-api-fc9fb4c0
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_QQ8hLA5DYEWckZZ8YAg1a

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability fetcher-sh-youtube-channel-api-fc9fb4c0
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up the channel details for the YouTube handle @mkbhd — I want to know their subscriber count, description, and general channel info without me needing to log in anywhere?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need YouTube channel metadata without setting up OAuth, managing Google API quotas, or maintaining a subscription. Ideal for agents that need occasional, pay-per-use channel lookups in USDC with no API key management overhead. Prefer over the official YouTube Data API when quota limits are a concern or when operating in an autonomous agent context where credential management is impractical.

## Known failure modes

- Channel path not found (404) — the handle or path does not map to an existing YouTube channel
- Rate limit or payment failure — USDC payment via x402 not processed, request rejected
- Invalid path format — malformed channel handle or slug
- Channel is private or terminated — data not publicly accessible
- Scraping block — YouTube temporarily blocks the scraping layer, returning empty or stale data

## How this service works

YouTube (yt) data and scraping API: Search videos, channels, and playlists; fetch video details, comments, shorts, live streams, and trending. 15 REST endpoints from $0.005 per call — no account, no OAuth, no subscription. Pay with x402 (USDC on Base, Polygon, Arbitrum, Monad or Solana) or prepaid credits.

## Output

Returns structured channel metadata for the given YouTube channel path, including channel ID, name, description, subscriber count, video count, and related channel identifiers — all without requiring OAuth or a Google API key.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "required": {
   "type": "string"
  },
  "properties": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/fetcher-sh-youtube-channel-api-fc9fb4c0/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from youtube.fetcher.sh](https://www.zero.xyz/host/youtube.fetcher.sh/llms.txt)