Channel videos

When to use this

Use it to see what a creator publishes and what performs: about 30 videos per page from the channel's Videos tab, newest first, or most viewed first with sort=popular. Shorts are on their own tab (channel Shorts).

Views are rounded as the channel page shows them (82M views). For exact views, likes, comments and the full description, pass a video's url to the video endpoint.

Pagination. Pass the response's continuationToken back as continuationToken for the next page; it's null on the last page.

Unknown channels return 404 not_found; a channel without a Videos tab returns an empty list.

Parameters

All parameters go in the query string.

Example request

Replace YOUR_API_KEY with your key, or set LURKAPI_KEY for the code. Get a free key.

curl "https://api.lurkapi.com/v1/youtube/channel-videos?handle=MrBeast" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

const params = new URLSearchParams({
  handle: "MrBeast",
});
const res = await fetch(`https://api.lurkapi.com/v1/youtube/channel-videos?${params}`, {
  headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.LURKAPI_KEY },
});
const data = await res.json();
if (!data.success) throw new Error(`${data.code}: ${data.error}`);
console.log(data.videos);

import os
import requests

res = requests.get(
    "https://api.lurkapi.com/v1/youtube/channel-videos",
    params={
        "handle": "MrBeast",
    },
    headers={"x-api-key": os.environ["LURKAPI_KEY"]},
    timeout=60,
)
data = res.json()
if not data["success"]:
    raise RuntimeError(f"{data['code']}: {data['error']}")
print(data["videos"])

Example response

A real response from this endpoint, captured from the live API and trimmed to a couple of items. Strings over 96 characters (mostly signed media URLs) are cut short and end in ….

{
  "success": true,
  "credits_remaining": 999994,
  "credits_charged": 1,
  "videos": [
    {
      "type": "video",
      "id": "v9QtM6qnG50",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9QtM6qnG50",
      "title": "I Built A City To Save Kids From Illegal Labor",
      "thumbnail": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/v9QtM6qnG50/hq720_custom_2.jpg?sqp=COi59NUG-oaymw…",
      "viewCountText": "82M views",
      "viewCountInt": 82000000,
      "publishedTimeText": "10 days ago",
      "publishedTime": "2026-09-20T14:32:03.216Z",
      "lengthText": "19:03",
      "lengthSeconds": 1143,
      "badges": []
    },
    {
      "type": "video",
      "id": "gTKS8SAwUzE",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTKS8SAwUzE",
      "title": "I Survived The Most Extreme Places On Earth",
      "thumbnail": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gTKS8SAwUzE/hq720.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEcCNAFEJQDSFXyq4q…",
      "viewCountText": "117M views",
      "viewCountInt": 117000000,
      "publishedTimeText": "3 weeks ago",
      "publishedTime": "2026-09-09T14:32:03.216Z",
      "lengthText": "23:28",
      "lengthSeconds": 1408,
      "badges": []
    }
  ],
  "continuationToken": "4qmFsgLdCBIYVUNYNk9RM0RrY3NiWU5FNkg4dVFRdVZBGsAIOGdhbkJocWtCbnFoQmpxZUJn…"
}

Response fields

Every field of a successful response. [] marks a list: a[].b is the b of each item in a. nullable fields can be null; optional fields can be missing.

Caching and freshness

Responses are cached for up to 1 hour, so a repeat call within that window can return the same data. It still costs 1 credit.

Errors

Errors return { success: false, error, code, docs } with the HTTP status below. Validation errors, 401/402/429 rejections and 5xx failures are free; not_found is charged (how charging works). All error codes.

Use it in Claude

Once LurkAPI is connected to Claude, this endpoint is the youtube_channel_videos tool. Ask in plain English, for example:

Use LurkAPI's youtube_channel_videos with handle "MrBeast" and summarize what you find.

Claude calls youtube_channel_videos with arguments like these, and each call costs 1 credit:

{
  "handle": "MrBeast"
}

Tool results skip nulls and empty lists to save tokens.