GET
Channel Profile
/api/kick/v1/channels/{slug}
Get a channel profile with follower count and live status in one lookup
Kick API
Kick Streaming API for Channels, Live Status, Clips, VODs, and Search
Scrappa's Kick API returns structured JSON from kick.com, the live streaming platform. Read any channel profile with its live status in one call, page through clips and VOD history, open a clip or VOD for full detail, walk the category taxonomy, browse the platform-wide live feed with viewer counts, and search channels, livestreams, and categories. Scrappa is an independent service and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Kick.
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Structured JSON
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19
Endpoints
kick.com
Source coverage
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Make one request. Inspect structured JSON.
Use the first endpoint in this API family with a Scrappa API key. Every account includes 500 free monthly credits, so you can validate the response shape before buying credits.
Request preview
Request
curl -X GET "https://scrappa.co/api/kick/v1/channels/xqc" \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
-H "X-API-KEY: YOUR_API_KEY"
JSON response
{
"success": true,
"data": {
"channel": {
"user": {
"username": "xqc",
"slug": "xqc",
"followers_count": 4100000,
"verified": true,
"profile_pic": "https://example/avatar.png"
},
"livestream": {
"id": "123",
"session_title": "Just chatting",
"is_live": true,
"viewer_count": 4210,
"start_time": "2026-10-04T13:00:00Z",
"language": "English",
"categories": [{ "id": 1, "name": "Just Chatting", "slug": "just-chatting" }]
},
"recent_categories": [{ "id": 1, "name": "Just Chatting", "slug": "just-chatting" }]
},
"search_parameters": { "slug": "xqc" }
},
"meta": { "upstream_family": "channel" }
}What you can build
Structured data for real applications. Here are some ideas.
Competitor Stream Tracking
Poll channel profiles to read live or offline state, session title, and viewer counts from a single lookup.
Clip Trend Monitoring
Follow channel and platform clip feeds with views, likes, durations, and playback URLs to spot what clips out.
VOD Archive Analytics
Page a channel's VOD history with view counts, durations, categories, and tags for catalogue and growth analysis.
Live Discovery Reports
Combine the platform live feed, top categories with viewer counts, and trending tags to see what audiences are watching.
Creator Ranking Dashboards
Read the hourly gifted-subs leaderboard to rank channels over a window you choose by shifting start_time.
kick.com scraper API
Kick API for channel profiles, live status, clips, VODs, and live discovery
The Kick API is built for stream analytics, clip monitoring, and creator dashboards. Every endpoint performs exactly one upstream lookup, so a channel profile already carries live status, recent categories, and the playback URL without extra calls. Responses keep the full upstream payload and normalize only the two fields Kick types inconsistently: follower counts and verified flags.
Read a channel profile, its follower count, and its live status in one request.
Page clips with the opaque cursor Kick returns; the page size is fixed at 20 upstream and no page-size control is exposed.
Page VOD history five at a time, or request the full unpaginated history for channels with long archives.
Open a VOD by the UUID from the VOD list; the numeric VOD id is rejected upstream.
Browse the platform live feed with viewer counts, filter by language or subcategory, and read top categories with live viewer counts.
Rank channels by gifted subscriptions over any window by shifting start_time.
Choose the right Kick API endpoint
Track channel live state with one call
Poll the channel endpoint for each channel you follow. The embedded livestream carries viewer count, session title, start time, categories, and tags, and is null while the channel is offline. No second request is needed and no lookup is stacked behind a billable call.
Open Kick Channel API docsMonitor clips and VODs over time
Walk the channel clip feed with the returned next_cursor and the VOD history with page. Store views, likes, and durations to spot breakout clips and to build a catalogue of what a channel publishes.
Open Kick Clip API docsDiscover what is live right now
Combine the live feed with the top categories endpoint to rank categories by current viewers, and read trending tags for the labels audiences follow. Language codes come from the languages endpoint rather than being hardcoded.
Open Kick Live Feed API docsAvailable endpoints
Everything you need in one API.
GET
Live Status
/api/kick/v1/channels/{slug}/livestream
Get the current livestream with viewer count, categories, and tags
GET
Playback URL
/api/kick/v1/channels/{slug}/playback-url
Get the server-signed HLS playback URL of a live channel
GET
Channel Clips
/api/kick/v1/channels/{slug}/clips
Page a channel clip feed with an opaque cursor
GET
Channel VODs
/api/kick/v1/channels/{slug}/videos
Page a channel VOD history or fetch it unpaginated
GET
Featured Livestreams
/api/kick/v1/channels/{slug}/featured-livestreams
Read the featured livestream rail attached to a channel
GET
Global Clips
/api/kick/v1/clips
Browse the platform-wide clip feed
GET
Clip Detail
/api/kick/v1/clips/{clip_id}
Open one clip with channel, creator, and category detail
GET
Category Clips
/api/kick/v1/categories/{subcategory_slug}/clips
Read the clip feed of one subcategory by slug
GET
Video Detail
/api/kick/v1/video/{video_uuid}
Open one VOD with playback source and view counts
GET
Search
/api/kick/v1/search
Search channels, livestreams, and categories at once
GET
Live Feed
/api/kick/v1/livestreams
Browse the platform-wide featured live feed
GET
Top Categories
/api/kick/v1/categories/top
Get subcategories annotated with live viewer counts
GET
Categories
/api/kick/v1/categories
Read the top-level category taxonomy
GET
Subcategories
/api/kick/v1/subcategories
Get the whole subcategory taxonomy in one cached call
GET
Subcategory Detail
/api/kick/v1/subcategories/{subcategory_slug}
Read one subcategory with tags and viewer counts
GET
Languages
/api/kick/v1/languages
Get the language codes Kick accepts
GET
Trending Tags
/api/kick/v1/tags/trending
Get the tag labels currently trending
GET
Leaderboard
/api/kick/v1/leaderboard
Read the hourly gifted-subs channel ranking
Related resources
YouTube Data API overview
Add YouTube channels, live streams, and videos to the same streaming analytics stack.
Instagram scraper API overview
Add Instagram creator and post data for the same audience research workflow.
TikTok scraper API overview
Pull creator and video data for the same audience research workflow.
Scrappa vs ScrapingBee / ScraperAPI
See how Scrappa compares to the official API.
| Feature | Scrappa | ScrapingBee / ScraperAPI |
|---|---|---|
| Kick data as JSON | Build your own parser | |
| Channel profile with live status in one call | Stack multiple requests | |
| Clip feeds with cursor pagination | ||
| VOD history and VOD detail | ||
| Live feed and leaderboard endpoints | ||
| Price per 1k requests | From $0.20 | Varies by credits per request |
| Unified API key | Yes (80+ APIs) | Scraping only |
| Free tier | 500 credits/month | Trial credits |
Kick data as JSON
Scrappa:
ScrapingBee / ScraperAPI:
Build your own parser
Channel profile with live status in one call
Scrappa:
ScrapingBee / ScraperAPI:
Stack multiple requests
Clip feeds with cursor pagination
Scrappa:
ScrapingBee / ScraperAPI:
VOD history and VOD detail
Scrappa:
ScrapingBee / ScraperAPI:
Live feed and leaderboard endpoints
Scrappa:
ScrapingBee / ScraperAPI:
Price per 1k requests
Scrappa:
From $0.20
ScrapingBee / ScraperAPI:
Varies by credits per request
Unified API key
Scrappa:
Yes (80+ APIs)
ScrapingBee / ScraperAPI:
Scraping only
Free tier
Scrappa:
500 credits/month
ScrapingBee / ScraperAPI:
Trial credits
Key features
Channel profiles with socials, badges, follower count, and embedded live status in one lookup
Live-only status with viewer count, session title, start time, language, categories, and tags
Clip feeds for channels, subcategories, and the whole platform with an opaque cursor
Clip detail with channel, creator, category, playback URL, thumbnail, views, likes, and duration
Paged and unpaginated VOD history with playback sources, view counts, categories, and tags
Platform live feed with viewer counts, language and subcategory filters, and cursor pagination
Category taxonomy, subcategories with live viewer counts, language codes, and trending tags
Gifted-subs leaderboard over a start_time window, with rank and live state per entry
Simple API key auth with 500 free credits per month
Frequently asked questions
No. Scrappa is an independent service and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Kick. Kick's own developer API requires OAuth credentials; this API returns public Kick page data through a Scrappa API key instead.
The channel endpoint embeds the livestream, and the livestream endpoint returns it on its own. An offline channel returns livestream: null and is_live: false. A playback URL is not a live indicator: Kick can return one for a channel whose livestream is null.
Kick fixes clip pages at 20 items and ignores a page-size parameter upstream. Exposing one would return twenty items regardless, so the API pages with the cursor Kick returns instead. VOD pages are fixed at five in the same way, with a limit that only applies to the unpaginated fallback.
The VOD UUID from the channel videos response, not the numeric VOD id. Kick answers the numeric id with an invalid-identifier error, and the API rejects that form before spending an upstream call.
No. Kick returns a bounded set of channels, livestreams, and categories per query, so the pagination block reports the returned count and has_more false rather than pretending a cursor exists. An empty query is rejected with a 422 before any upstream request.
It is not. A successful lookup is billed once; unknown slugs, invalid parameters, upstream blocks, and transport failures are returned as errors and never charged.
Every Scrappa account includes 500 free credits each month. After that, each request costs one credit, which works out to $0.20 to $0.30 per 1,000 requests depending on the credit pack or plan.