# fetcher.sh YouTube Hashtag Search API

> fetcher.sh YouTube Hashtag Search API is a paid API for AI agents from fetcher.sh, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Fetches YouTube videos and content associated with a specific hashtag, paid per call in USDC via x402

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://fetcher.sh/api/youtube/hashtag/%7Btag%7D
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/fetcher-sh-youtube-hashtag-search-api-4686b15c
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_oEw_9sLsF_N66DogPZRD9

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-hashtag-search-api-4686b15c
```

Example prompt: Pull the latest YouTube videos for the hashtag 'AItools' — I want to see what's trending under that tag right now.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to discover or monitor YouTube videos associated with a specific hashtag without setting up OAuth or YouTube API credentials. Ideal for AI agents that need frictionless, pay-per-call access to YouTube hashtag feeds for content research, trend monitoring, or competitive analysis — especially when you want to avoid quota limits and account management overhead of the official YouTube Data API.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or empty hashtag returns no results or an error
- Hashtag has no associated YouTube videos returning an empty list
- Rate limiting or scraping blocks from YouTube resulting in failed fetch
- Payment failure in USDC/x402 preventing the call from completing
- Malformed tag parameter causing a bad request error

## 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

A list of YouTube videos associated with the requested hashtag, typically including video titles, video IDs, channel names, view counts, upload dates, thumbnails, and other video metadata scraped from YouTube's hashtag feed.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

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

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/fetcher-sh-youtube-hashtag-search-api-4686b15c/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)