YouTube Search API
Structured YouTube search results — video title, channel, view count, duration, publish date, and thumbnail URL — returned as JSON in one POST request. Built for AI agents that need video context, content monitoring teams tracking brand mentions, and researchers analysing video trends.
Early-access subscribers get bonus credits at launch. No spam — one notification when the API goes live.
What you'll get at launch
- → Structured video results — title, channel name, channel URL, view count, duration, publish date, thumbnail URL, video URL.
- → Same authentication — your existing SearchCans API key works out of the box. No new dashboard, no extra signup.
- → Same Parallel Lanes — your concurrency from SERP API stacks across YouTube Search too.
- → Affordable pricing — credit pricing aligned with our SERP API (final pricing announced at launch).
Who is this for?
AI Agents & LLM apps
Ground LLM answers in fresh video context — pull top-N video metadata for any query and feed it into RAG.
Content monitoring
Track brand mentions, competitor videos, or trending creators across channels without scraping YouTube directly.
Market research
Aggregate video view counts and publish-date distributions at scale to quantify topic momentum.
Indie hackers & SaaS
Ship YouTube-powered features (trending widgets, video sitemaps, creator tools) without YouTube Data API quota headaches.
FAQ
When will the YouTube Search API launch? ▾
Target launch is June 2026. Waitlist subscribers will be notified the moment the endpoint is live, and will receive bonus credits as a thank-you for being early.
Do I need a separate signup? ▾
No. The YouTube Search API will use your existing SearchCans API key, share your Parallel Lanes, and charge from the same credit balance.
How is this different from the official YouTube Data API? ▾
The official YouTube Data API has strict daily quotas (10,000 units/day default) and complex unit accounting. SearchCans gives you a flat credit cost per request, predictable concurrency via Parallel Lanes, and one unified API key shared with SERP & Reader APIs.
Need video data today?
While the dedicated endpoint is in development, you can use the Google Videos API (already live) to fetch the top videos for any query — many results link to YouTube.