# fetcher.sh YouTube Trending

> fetcher.sh YouTube Trending 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 the current list of trending YouTube videos, paid per call in USDC via x402

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://fetcher.sh/api/youtube/trending
- 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-trending-28fe2e11
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_CNNis2oI6irbJuy7544m9

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-trending-28fe2e11
```

Example prompt: What are the trending YouTube videos right now? Pull the current trending list for the US.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need trending YouTube data without setting up a Google API key, OAuth flow, or YouTube Data API quota. It's ideal for AI agents that need real-time trending video data on demand with simple per-call USDC micropayment billing and no account or subscription required.

## Known failure modes

- YouTube trending page structure changes causing parse failures
- Region code not supported returning empty results
- Rate limiting or payment failure returning 402 response
- Network timeout from YouTube scraping returning 503
- Invalid or malformed query parameters returning 400

## 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 currently trending YouTube videos including video IDs, titles, channel names, view counts, like counts, thumbnails, publish dates, and video URLs — all scraped in real time from YouTube's trending page.

## 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-trending-28fe2e11/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)