# YouTube Channel About API (https://www.socialcrawl.dev/platforms/youtube/channel-about)

> Returns the contact email a YouTube channel publishes behind its View email address control (`author.ext.public_email`) and the country listed on the channel (`author.ext.country`), together with the channel's id, handle, name, subscriber count and video count. This is a different surface from `GET /v1/youtube/channel`: that call only returns an email when the channel writes one into its public description. The field is null when the channel publishes no address. A channel that does not exist returns 404 and is not billed.

TL;DR: `GET /v1/youtube/channel/about` costs 60 credits per call and returns SocialCrawl's unified JSON schema. Single x-api-key auth, 100 free credits on signup.

## Parameters

| Parameter | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `channelId` | no | YouTube channel ID. Can pass a channelId, handle or url |
| `handle` | no | YouTube channel handle without the @ symbol |
| `url` | no | YouTube channel URL. Can pass a channelId, handle or url |

## Code example

```bash
curl "https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/youtube/channel/about" \
  -H "x-api-key: sc_YOUR_API_KEY"
```

See the full YouTube API: https://www.socialcrawl.dev/platforms/youtube

## Pricing

- Standard endpoints: 1 credit per call
- Advanced endpoints: 5 credits per call
- Premium endpoints: 10 credits per call
- 100 free credits on signup, no credit card required. Cached responses cost 0 credits. Credit packs never expire.
- Full pricing: https://www.socialcrawl.dev/pricing