Is the Rumble API free? What exists and what it returns (2026)

November 8, 2026

If you came here looking for a Rumble developer portal with API keys and a pricing page, there is not one that we could find. Rumble offers one official data feed, aimed at streamers and their overlay tools. Here is what it returns, what it does not, and what the rules mean for everything else.

The Rumble Live Stream API

Rumble's help article explains it. You create and manage stream API URLs and keys on your account's livestream API page. The URL contains your user ID and key, and Rumble advises sharing it only with trusted third parties. The article says this version needs no authentication beyond the URL itself, and does not mention a price.

Chat, rants and viewer counts are filled only while you are live. The article gives no rate limit, so poll at a modest interval, such as every 10 seconds during a stream. That is 360 requests an hour.

What it does not do

• It reads your own account. The article describes no way to read another channel.
• It has no search, no video lists for other channels, no comments on videos and no transcripts.
• It has no documented history. Recent chat and rants stop at 50 items, so store them yourself if you need a log.

The rules on everything else

Rumble's terms of service include a section titled "Restrictions on automated software": you may not use scripts, bots or other automated means to interact with or access the Rumble site without Rumble's prior written permission. Its robots.txt also disallows /api/ for all user agents. So the unofficial JSON endpoints people find in their browser's network tab are not an invitation. This is not legal advice; read the terms for your own use.

Free tools and their limits

yt-dlp lists Rumble, RumbleChannel and RumbleEmbed extractors in its supported sites. It can save videos you have the rights to and print metadata as JSON. It is free and open source, but it is automated access under Rumble's terms, and it breaks when the site changes.

Which one fits you

• You stream on Rumble and want overlays, alerts or a chat log: the Live Stream API. It is free and made for this.
• You need your own video files: download them from your account, or with yt-dlp on your own channel.
• You track other channels, search results, comments or transcripts: ask Rumble for written permission, or use a data API.

Checklist before you build on Rumble data

1. Decide whose data you need. Your own live stream: the official API. Anyone else's: keep reading.
2. Write down the fields you need: views, likes, comments, transcripts, upload dates.
3. Read Rumble's terms and decide whether you need written permission for your use.
4. Store what you collect with a capture time, since Rumble's numbers change and the Live Stream API documents no history.
5. Budget calls per channel per day before you pick a tool.

A monitoring budget

Tracking 50 Rumble channels daily with one video-list call each is 1,500 calls a month. Add comments and a transcript for 5 new videos a day and it is about 1,800 calls, roughly $3.40 at $1.88 per 1,000.

Doing it with ScrapeIO

ScrapeIO reads public Rumble data in JSON: the rumble channel videos API, rumble video API, rumble search API, rumble video comments API and rumble video transcript API, 1 credit each. Agents can use the Rumble MCP server. For YouTube, the closest comparison, see YouTube API options.

Sources

Checked on 8 November 2026 from each vendor's own pages. Prices and limits change; follow the links before you decide.

• https://rumble.support/en/help/how-to-use-rumble-s-live-stream-api
• https://rumble.com/s/terms
• https://rumble.com/robots.txt
• https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/supportedsites.md