# fetcher.sh YouTube Video Search API

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

Search YouTube videos by keyword and return matching video results without requiring OAuth or a YouTube account

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://youtube.fetcher.sh/api/search/video
- 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-search-api-bd73f118
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_ChTJXWm4YtojSCmuEXtVJ

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-search-api-bd73f118
```

Example prompt: Search YouTube for videos about 'how to make sourdough bread' and give me the top results with their titles, channel names, and view counts.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to search YouTube programmatically without setting up a Google Cloud project, OAuth credentials, or managing YouTube Data API v3 quotas. Ideal for AI agents that need quick, pay-per-call YouTube search access using USDC micropayments on Base, Polygon, Arbitrum, Monad, or Solana — especially when avoiding subscription commitments or API key management overhead.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or missing search query returns an error
- YouTube scraping may be rate-limited or temporarily blocked by YouTube
- Payment failure (insufficient USDC balance) returns a 402 response
- Empty results if no videos match the query
- Network timeout if YouTube's site is slow to respond

## How this service works

YouTube (yt) data and scraping API: Search videos, channels, and playlists; fetch video details, comments, shorts, live streams, and trending. 15 REST endpoints from $0.005 per call — no account, no OAuth, no subscription. Pay with x402 (USDC on Base, Polygon, Arbitrum, Monad or Solana) or prepaid credits.

## Output

A list of YouTube video results matching the search query, including video titles, video IDs, channel names, thumbnails, view counts, and other video metadata — returned as JSON without requiring a YouTube API key or OAuth setup.

## 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-video-search-api-bd73f118/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from youtube.fetcher.sh](https://www.zero.xyz/host/youtube.fetcher.sh/llms.txt)