# fetcher.sh YouTube Video Search

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

Search YouTube for videos by keyword and retrieve structured video results including metadata

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://fetcher.sh/api/youtube/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-e8e50b5a
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_5zz1uHoREk3_vniruTiVf

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-e8e50b5a
```

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

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need YouTube video search results without registering for the YouTube Data API v3, managing OAuth credentials, or dealing with quota limits. It is ideal for AI agents that need pay-per-call, account-free access to YouTube search data. Prefer this over YouTube's official API when you want instant, no-subscription access priced in USDC microtransactions on Base.

## Known failure modes

- No results returned if query is too niche or misspelled
- Rate limiting or blocking by YouTube anti-scraping measures may cause failures
- Empty or malformed response if YouTube changes its page structure
- Payment failure if USDC balance is insufficient for the $0.005 per-call fee
- Stale or cached results if YouTube content changes rapidly

## 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 structured list of YouTube video search results, each typically including video title, video URL or ID, channel name, view count, upload date, duration, and thumbnail URL — returned as JSON for programmatic consumption by an AI agent.

## 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-e8e50b5a/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)