# fetcher.sh YouTube Channel Search

> fetcher.sh YouTube Channel Search is a paid API for AI agents from fetcher.sh, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Search YouTube for channels matching a query, returning channel metadata and results

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://fetcher.sh/api/youtube/search/channel
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/fetcher-sh-youtube-channel-search-f3ebe4d6
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_q_9iZ2KRK7GEnOcy7IRK8

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 fetcher-sh-youtube-channel-search-f3ebe4d6
```

Example prompt: Search YouTube for channels about personal finance and give me a list of the top results including their channel IDs and descriptions.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to discover YouTube channels by keyword or topic without setting up YouTube API credentials or OAuth. It is ideal for AI agents that need frictionless, pay-per-call access to YouTube channel search results, especially for influencer discovery, competitor research, or finding specific creator channels.

## Known failure modes

- Empty query returns error or no results
- Very broad or ambiguous queries return irrelevant channels
- Rate limiting or payment failure returns 402 or 429 error
- YouTube data unavailable due to scraping blocks returns 5xx error
- Query with special characters may fail or return unexpected results

## How this service works

fetcher.sh is an x402 web-data and scraping API: 111 endpoints for Twitter/X, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Reddit, Google, App Store, and Yelp — paid per call in USDC on Base, Polygon, Arbitrum, Monad or Solana, or with prepaid credits. Built for AI agents: no accounts, no OAuth, no subscriptions.

## Output

Returns a list of YouTube channels matching the search query, typically including channel name, channel ID, description, subscriber count, thumbnail, and channel URL for each result.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "required": {
   "type": "string"
  },
  "properties": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/fetcher-sh-youtube-channel-search-f3ebe4d6/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from fetcher.sh](https://www.zero.xyz/host/fetcher.sh/llms.txt)