What you get

The figures here come straight from YouTube’s official API: subscriber count, lifetime view count, number of public videos, the country set on the channel, the date it was created, and its permanent channel ID. Average views per video is worked out from the last two.

Reading the numbers sensibly

Subscriber counts are rounded

YouTube stopped reporting exact subscriber numbers publicly in 2019. Above 1,000 subscribers the count is rounded — to three significant figures — so a channel showing 1,230,000 might have anywhere from 1,230,000 to 1,239,999. Only the channel owner sees the exact figure. Any site claiming to show you a precise live count is estimating.

Some channels hide the count entirely

Creators can switch off public display of their subscriber count. When they have, this tool says so rather than showing zero.

Average views per video is a blunt instrument

It divides lifetime views by public video count, which flatters channels with one viral hit and a small catalogue, and understates channels that upload constantly. It also ignores deleted and private videos whose views still count. Useful as a rough sense of scale, not as a performance metric.

Total views includes everything

Shorts, live streams, and videos since removed from public view all contributed to that number.

Which link formats work

Modern @handle URLs, the permanent /channel/UC… form, older /user/ URLs, and a bare handle typed on its own. Custom /c/name vanity URLs sometimes fail to resolve because YouTube’s API has no direct lookup for them — if that happens, open the channel and use its @handle instead.

Frequently asked questions

Is this real-time?

It is fetched live when you press the button, but YouTube’s own figures update periodically rather than instantly, and are rounded as described above.

Can I see stats for a private channel?

No. Only publicly available data is returned.

Why is watch time or revenue not shown?

Those are private analytics, visible only to the channel owner inside YouTube Studio. No third-party tool has access to them, whatever it claims.

What is the channel ID for?

It is the permanent identifier that never changes, even if the creator changes their handle or display name. If you are storing channels in a database or working with the API, use that rather than the handle.