YouTube

Search videos, fetch channel and video metadata, playlists, transcripts, comments, and hashtag feeds from YouTube.

Available Tools

ToolEndpointCredits
Search/api/v1/tools/youtube/search1
Hashtag/api/v1/tools/youtube/hashtag0.5
Video/api/v1/tools/youtube/video0.5
Channel/api/v1/tools/youtube/channel0.5
Channel Videos/api/v1/tools/youtube/channel-videos1
Playlist/api/v1/tools/youtube/playlist0.5
Transcript/api/v1/tools/youtube/transcript0.5
Comments/api/v1/tools/youtube/comments1

Authentication

All tool endpoints use the same Authorization header as the scrape API:

Authorization: Bearer sc_live_your_key_here

Response Format

Every tool returns a consistent envelope with data and meta fields:

{ "data": { ... }, "meta": { "tool": "youtube-search", "creditsUsed": 1, "requestId": "req_abc123" } }

Credit cost and request ID are also returned in response headers: X-Request-Cost, X-Remaining-Credits, X-Request-Id.