# BlackBobs.ai YouTube Scraper

> BlackBobs.ai YouTube Scraper is a paid API for AI agents from blackbobs-ai.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.056226/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Scrapes and extracts data from YouTube videos, channels, or search results

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://blackbobs-ai.vercel.app/api/youtube-scraper7
- Price: $0.056226/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/blackbobs-ai-youtube-scraper-2ffb9acc
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_XQlmTDy4XPbzBeJWB6Xdy

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 blackbobs-ai-youtube-scraper-2ffb9acc -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you scrape the YouTube video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ and pull the title, view count, description, and channel name for me?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to extract structured data from YouTube videos or channels without requiring a Google/YouTube API key, especially for pay-per-call use cases where you want to avoid quota management. Useful for one-off lookups, agent workflows, and cases where the YouTube Data API quota would be exceeded.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or inaccessible YouTube URL returns an error result
- Private or deleted videos may return empty or error data
- YouTube anti-scraping measures may cause rate limiting or blocked requests
- Malformed input object returns an error
- Age-restricted or region-locked content may not be accessible

## How this service works

194 production-ready API endpoints. AI, Search, Social, Finance, Crypto. Pay-per-call with x402 on Base chain.

## Output

Returns a result object containing scraped YouTube data such as video title, description, view count, like count, channel name, publish date, thumbnail URL, tags, comment count, and potentially comments or transcript depending on the request.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "result": {
   "type": "object",
   "description": "API response data"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "example": {
  "result": {
   "data": "example response"
  }
 },
 "properties": {
  "result": {
   "type": "object",
   "description": "API response data"
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/blackbobs-ai-youtube-scraper-2ffb9acc/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from blackbobs-ai.vercel.app](https://www.zero.xyz/host/blackbobs-ai.vercel.app/llms.txt)