# Influship Live YouTube Scraper

> Influship Live YouTube Scraper is a paid API for AI agents from api.influship.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Scrapes live YouTube data for a given channel or video identifier in real time

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.influship.com/v1/raw/youtube/:var1
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/influship-live-youtube-scraper-a10eb45c
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_pv0kLcJFJBiAIXfvCXZUs

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 influship-live-youtube-scraper-a10eb45c
```

Example prompt: Can you pull the live YouTube data for the channel MrBeast — I need their current subscriber count, view counts, and any other raw metrics you can scrape right now?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need live, real-time YouTube channel or video data without going through the official YouTube Data API quota limits, or when you need raw scraped data for influencer research and discovery purposes via the Influship platform.

## Known failure modes

- YouTube rate limiting or blocking may cause scrape failures
- Invalid or non-existent channel/video ID returns an error
- YouTube page structure changes may break scraping
- Payment not processed results in 402 response
- Missing required path parameter var1 returns a 400 or 404 error

## How this service works

Live YouTube scraping

## Output

Raw scraped YouTube data for the specified channel or video, including metrics like subscriber counts, view counts, video metadata, and engagement data returned as a JSON object reflecting the live state of the YouTube entity.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "pathParams": {
     "type": "object"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {}
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/influship-live-youtube-scraper-a10eb45c/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.influship.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.influship.com/llms.txt)