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YouTube Data API Alternatives: Channel and Video Data Without Quota Anxiety

The official YouTube Data API caps you at a daily quota. FetchPI serves channels, videos and search as normalized JSON with pay-per-call billing and freshness control.

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Quickstart

Every request needs one header: Authorization: Bearer $FETCHPI_API_KEY. Create a free key in the console and you can replay every snippet on this page as-is.

curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $FETCHPI_API_KEY"   "https://fetchpi.com/v1/youtube/users/{username}?freshness=default"

The quota problem

The official Data API prices every call against a hard daily quota, and the endpoints analytics use most (search, list) burn it fastest. FetchPI's YouTube surface is pay-per-call: a channel profile, a video's statistics, a search page — each one call with a published price, no daily ceiling to engineer around.

The endpoint map

  • GET /v1/youtube/users/{username} — channel profile (handles work as the identity).
  • GET /v1/youtube/users/{username}/posts — recent videos with engagement.
  • GET /v1/youtube/posts/{id} — video detail and statistics.
  • GET /v1/youtube/posts/{id}/comments — comment threads.
  • GET /v1/youtube/search/posts — video search.

Same envelope as everywhere else

Channel lookups accept freshness and max_age like every other platform, lists paginate with sealed cursors, and failures are never billed. If you maintain multi-platform analytics today, the YouTube integration is the same client code with a different prefix.