How to send a simple youtube request?

Question

YouTube

Is it possible to get open data from youtube channels (new video, stream, number of subscribers)?
What should such a request look like?

Answer 1

YouTube has an API, you can get all this through it without problems - up to 100 thousand free requests per day.
For example a link like this:
Gives info on the channel with id=UCF2cYykA5jFZTF6Y5j1zy7A:
I squeezed the snippet block on the screen above, here it is in open form

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