# fetcher.sh YouTube Video Details API

> fetcher.sh YouTube Video Details 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 detailed metadata and data for a specific YouTube video by its video ID, paid per call in USDC.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://fetcher.sh/api/youtube/video/%7Bid%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-video-details-api-edecd331
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_cFbc8sYkXy5lzsKeIruxw

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-video-details-api-edecd331
```

Example prompt: Can you grab all the details for this YouTube video — title, views, likes, description, channel, and publish date — for video ID dQw4w9WgXcQ?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need YouTube video metadata without setting up a YouTube Data API key or OAuth credentials, especially in agent workflows requiring pay-per-call simplicity with USDC on Base. Ideal for one-off lookups, AI agent pipelines, or when you want to avoid YouTube API quota limits and account management overhead.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or non-existent video ID returns an error or empty result
- Video may be private or age-restricted and unavailable for scraping
- Payment failure if USDC balance is insufficient
- Rate limiting or temporary blocking by YouTube may cause intermittent failures
- Deleted videos will return an 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

Returns structured metadata for the specified YouTube video including title, description, view count, like count, comment count, duration, channel name, publish date, thumbnail URLs, and tags.

## 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-video-details-api-edecd331/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)