Insights

Daily views earned by one account

GET/data-api/v2/insights/youtube/{handle}/activity
Scope
insights:read
Freshness
catalog read
Group
Insights
Platforms
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What this endpoint answers

The daily history of this account's lifetime channel views, differenced into what it earned each day. The audience count says how many people follow; this says what the account actually got while that number sat still, which is the half that prices a sponsorship.

This is a catalog read: it is served from the CRM Solid database in milliseconds, costs one budget unit, and reports how old the reading is in meta.cache_age_s. It needs the insights:read scope (Insights): Engagement rates, top posts, viral patterns, cohort benchmarks.

Good to know

  • views_eod is exact and subscriber counts are not. Across 72,264 daily rows in the ten days to 2026-08-30 every subscriber value we hold was a multiple of ten, because YouTube publishes the count rounded to three significant figures. Views are the number to trust on this platform, which is why this endpoint reads them.
  • The count is the channel's lifetime total, so a day's change is views arriving on everything the channel has ever published, not on that day's upload. It is a measure of ongoing attention, not of one video.
  • per_day_per_1k_audience is views per day for every thousand subscribers. It compares a channel with itself over time; it is not a cross-channel benchmark and there is no cohort behind it.
  • change is measured against the previous OBSERVED day, and days_covered says how many calendar days that step spans. A crawl gap therefore never disappears into a single day's number: use per_day, or days_covered, rather than reading change as a daily rate.
  • A day with no value is left out rather than carried forward. A missing day is a day nobody looked, not a day nothing happened.
  • window.days_observed is the real denominator and it varies a lot by account. Read it before trusting a per-day figure: history begins 2026-06-09 and the deepest account in any of these catalogs held 80 days on 2026-08-30.
  • audience.precision says whether the follower or subscriber number on this platform can be trusted digit for digit. GET /insights/activity/platforms carries the full explanation for each.
  • Only accounts already in the catalog have a series. An account nobody has asked us about has never been rolled up.

Parameters

Every value the call accepts, with the example the spec ships so the request runs as written.

NameInRequiredExampleWhat it does
handlepathrequiredmrbeastYouTube handle without the @, or a UC... channel id.
daysqueryoptional30Calendar days of history to read back from today, 1 to 90. The rollup begins 2026-06-09, so no account can answer for more than that.

Call it

Authenticate with a bearer token or the x-api-key header. Keys are server-to-server credentials. Never embed one in front-end code - call the API from your own backend and forward the result.

curl
curl "https://crmsolid.com/data-api/v2/insights/youtube/mrbeast/activity" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer psk_live_..."
JavaScript
const res = await fetch("https://crmsolid.com/data-api/v2/insights/youtube/mrbeast/activity", {
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.CRM_SOLID_DATA_API_KEY}`,
  },
});

if (!res.ok) {
  const { error } = await res.json();
  throw new Error(`${error.code}: ${error.message} (${error.request_id})`);
}

const { data, meta } = await res.json();
Python
import os

import requests

res = requests.get(
    "https://crmsolid.com/data-api/v2/insights/youtube/mrbeast/activity",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['CRM_SOLID_DATA_API_KEY']}"},
    timeout=30,
)
res.raise_for_status()

payload = res.json()
data, meta = payload["data"], payload["meta"]

Keys look like psk_live_... for production keys, psk_test_... for test keys and are minted in the panel.

What comes back

Success is { data, meta }. Failure is { error: { code, message, request_id } }. The body below is the spec's own example: the values in it are illustrative readings, not live numbers.

Platform
youtube
Id
UCX6OQ3DkcsbYNE6H8uQQuVA
Handle
mrbeast
Name
MrBeast
Audience metric
subscribers
Audience latest
515,000,000
Audience precision
rounded
Metric key
views
Metric label
Lifetime channel views
Metric kind
cumulative_total
Metric measures
Views added across the channel's whole back catalogue on that day, not views on new uploads alone.
Metric precision
exact
Window requested days
30
Window from
2026-08-01
Window to
2026-08-30
Window days observed
30
Window days spanned
30
Window coverage pct
100
Window longest gap days
0
Summary first day
2026-08-01
Summary first value
135,311,004,112
Summary latest day
2026-08-30
Summary latest value
138,536,017,550
Summary change
3,225,013,438
Summary change pct
2.38
Summary per day
111,207,360
Summary best day day
2026-08-24
Summary best day change
179,293,284
200 GET /insights/youtube/{handle}/activity
{
  "data": {
    "platform": "youtube",
    "id": "UCX6OQ3DkcsbYNE6H8uQQuVA",
    "handle": "mrbeast",
    "name": "MrBeast",
    "audience": {
      "metric": "subscribers",
      "latest": 515000000,
      "precision": "rounded"
    },
    "metric": {
      "key": "views",
      "label": "Lifetime channel views",
      "kind": "cumulative_total",
      "measures": "Views added across the channel's whole back catalogue on that day, not views on new uploads alone.",
      "precision": "exact"
    },
    "window": {
      "requested_days": 30,
      "from": "2026-08-01",
      "to": "2026-08-30",
      "days_observed": 30,
      "days_spanned": 30,
      "coverage_pct": 100,
      "longest_gap_days": 0
    },
    "summary": {
      "first": {
        "day": "2026-08-01",
        "value": 135311004112
      },
      "latest": {
        "day": "2026-08-30",
        "value": 138536017550
      },
      "change": 3225013438,
      "change_pct": 2.38,
      "per_day": 111207360,
      "best_day": {
        "day": "2026-08-24",
        "change": 179293284,
        "days_covered": 1,
        "per_day": 179293284
      },
      "peak": null,
      "trough": null,
      "per_day_per_1k_audience": 215.9
    },
    "series": [
      {
        "day": "2026-08-29",
        "value": 138398053404,
        "change": 111478231,
        "days_covered": 1,
        "per_day": 111478231
      },
      {
        "day": "2026-08-30",
        "value": 138536017550,
        "change": 137964146,
        "days_covered": 1,
        "per_day": 137964146
      }
    ]
  },
  "meta": {
    "request_id": "req_9f2c41a8b3d5",
    "generated_at": "2026-08-23T09:14:02.317Z",
    "took_ms": 42
  }
}

The meta block

  • request_idstringrequired

    Unique id for this request. Quote it in a support ticket.

  • generated_atstringrequired

    Server time the response was produced.

  • took_msintegerrequired

    Milliseconds spent server-side.

  • pagePageoptional
  • sourcestringoptional

    Which backend served the payload, for endpoints with more than one.

  • cache_age_sintegeroptional

    Age of the underlying data in seconds. 0 for live reads.

When it fails

GET /insights/youtube/{handle}/activity documents 8 failure statuses. Branch on error.code, which is stable and enumerated; message is prose and may change.

  • 401Unauthorizedunauthorized | invalid_key

    No key was presented, or the key is unknown, revoked or expired.

  • 402PaymentRequiredpayment_required | subscription_inactive

    The key is valid but the plan behind it cannot serve the call: the included requests are spent and overage is switched off, capped or unfunded (payment_required), or the billing period lapsed and was not renewed (subscription_inactive). Retrying does not help; paying does. The X-Plan-* headers on this response say how far past the line you are.

    Carries X-Plan, X-Plan-Limit, X-Plan-Overage, X-Plan-Period-End, X-Plan-Remaining.

  • 403Forbiddenforbidden_scope | forbidden_ip

    The key is valid but not allowed to make this call: it lacks the scope, or the request came from an address outside the key's allowlist.

  • 404NotFoundnot_found

    The addressed resource does not exist.

  • 422InvalidRequestinvalid_request

    A parameter is malformed, out of range or mutually exclusive with another. `details` names the offending fields.

  • 429RateLimitedrate_limited | quota_exceeded

    Either the burst ceiling for the current minute or the daily quota is spent. Distinguish with the code: rate_limited clears within the minute, quota_exceeded does not clear until 00:00 UTC.

    Carries Retry-After, X-Quota-Limit, X-Quota-Remaining, X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, X-RateLimit-Reset, X-Request-Id.

  • 500InternalErrorinternal_error

    Something failed on our side. Internals are never leaked; quote the request id.

  • 503Unavailableupstream_timeout | upstream_error | not_configured

    The request could not be served right now. BRANCH ON error.code, not on the status: 'upstream_timeout' means a source was too slow (this is what a catalog query hitting its 15-second statement timeout returns, so it is reachable from any endpoint that reads the corpus, not only the live-scrape ones) and the same call is worth retrying with backoff - narrowing it with a smaller limit, a filtered scope or a less popular account makes it far less likely; 'upstream_error' means a source was unreachable, so back off further; 'not_configured' means the capability has no backing service in this deployment, and retrying will never help.

Every response carries X-Request-Id and meta.request_id. Quote it in support requests.

Coverage and limits

This endpoint covers YouTube. Rate limits come from the tier on your key.

YouTube
TierRequests a minuteRequests a dayLive reads a minute
free301,0005
standard12025,00020
pro600250,00060
unlimited6,00010,000,000600

This call only draws on the ordinary per-minute and per-day columns. Every response reports where you stand in X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, X-RateLimit-Reset and the X-Plan headers.

Start calling it

A key takes a minute to mint in the panel, no card. The reference covers authentication, the envelope, scopes, rate limits and every error code in one page.

Reference path: /data-api/reference/insights-youtube-activity

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