Quickstart

Make your first NexLev API call in under 5 minutes.

Base URL

All endpoints are relative to:

https://prod.dashboard.nexlev.io

Prerequisites

A NexLev account
An API key — see Authentication for details

Your First Request

Fetch metadata for any YouTube channel with a single request:

curl "https://prod.dashboard.nexlev.io/api/external/channels/about?id=UC9XrHBgOxsNFEBXkLtEqCwA" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"

Response:

{
  "channelId": "UC9XrHBgOxsNFEBXkLtEqCwA",
  "title": "NexLev",
  "description": "Discover profitable YouTube niches and grow your channel with data-driven insights.",
  "channelHandle": "@NexLevApp",
  "subscriberText": "5.2K",
  "avatar": [
    {
      "url": "https://yt3.googleusercontent.com/ytc/AIdro_m...",
      "width": 160,
      "height": 160
    }
  ],
  "banner": [
    {
      "url": "https://yt3.googleusercontent.com/...",
      "width": 1280,
      "height": 351
    }
  ],
  "links": [
    { "title": "Website", "url": "https://nexlev.io" },
    { "title": "Twitter", "url": "https://twitter.com/nexlevapp" }
  ],
  "viewCountText": "245,820",
  "joinedDateText": "Jan 15, 2023",
  "videosCountText": "42"
}

This request cost 🥞 1 quota — see Rate Limits & Quota.

Explore the Reference

Channel Analytics — subscriber/view stats, revenue, geography
Channel Content — videos, shorts, playlists, outliers
Video Content — details, transcripts, comments, RPM
Similar Channels — competitor and niche discovery
YouTube Search — live YouTube search for videos, channels, playlists, shorts

Prefer building in n8n instead of raw HTTP? See the N8N for YouTube docs — same API, packaged as an n8n node.