# API Direct – YouTube Channel Search

> API Direct – YouTube Channel Search is a paid API for AI agents from x402.apidirect.io, paid per call via x402, $0.006/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-30).

Search for YouTube channels by keyword and return matching channel results, with optional multi-page fetching.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://x402.apidirect.io/v1/youtube/channels?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.006/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-30
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/api-direct-youtube-channel-search-670dccf3
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_9eAOhu08yS8d_ym1qDzbL

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability api-direct-youtube-channel-search-670dccf3
```

Example prompt: Search YouTube for channels about personal finance — can you pull results from the first 3 pages so I get a good variety?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to discover YouTube channels by topic or keyword, especially for influencer research, competitor analysis, or content landscape mapping. Prefer this over video-search endpoints when the goal is to identify channel-level entities rather than individual videos. It supports multi-page fetching for broader coverage.

## Known failure modes

- Empty or overly broad query returning low-quality results
- pages parameter exceeding maximum of 20 causing validation error
- Query string exceeding 500 characters rejected by schema
- YouTube rate limiting or availability issues causing upstream failures
- No channels found for a very niche or misspelled query

## How this service works

Search for YouTube channels by keyword.

## Output

A list of YouTube channels matching the search query, including channel names, IDs, descriptions, subscriber counts, and other available metadata, aggregated across the requested number of pages.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "query"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "pages": {
       "type": "integer",
       "default": 1,
       "maximum": 20,
       "minimum": 1,
       "description": "Number of pages to fetch and merge (1-20). Billed per page."
      },
      "query": {
       "type": "string",
       "maxLength": 500,
       "description": "Search query (max 500 characters)"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/api-direct-youtube-channel-search-670dccf3/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from x402.apidirect.io](https://www.zero.xyz/host/x402.apidirect.io/llms.txt)