YouTube search API

Searches YouTube and delivers each video with id, title, channel and channel URL, view count (as shown and as a number), publish age, duration, description snippet, badges and thumbnail. Read from the page's own data payload — no Data API key, no quota, no browser. One results page per run (~20 videos).

$0.0008 per delivered video, up to 40 videos per run. Nothing delivered means nothing charged.

Inputs

What one video looks like

FAQ

What does the YouTube search API return?

Searches YouTube and delivers each video with id, title, channel and channel URL, view count (as shown and as a number), publish age, duration, description snippet, badges and thumbnail. Read from the page's own data payload — no Data API key, no quota, no browser. One results page per run (~20 videos). Each row carries 14 fields, listed in full on this page.

What do I send it?

A semantic input, not a URL list: query are required. One run returns up to 40 videos.

How much does the YouTube search API cost?

$0.0008 per delivered video. A run that delivers nothing is not billed, and the

monthly free credit covers about 1,250 videos here.

Do I need my own proxies for it?

No. The collector runs on our residential network and handles rotation, retries and pagination internally.