# OpenWeb Ninja — Realtime YouTube Shorts Search API

> OpenWeb Ninja — Realtime YouTube Shorts Search API is a paid API for AI agents from x402.openwebninja.com, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Returns real-time YouTube Shorts search results for a given query via a pay-per-call x402 API, no API key required.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://x402.openwebninja.com/realtime-serp-data/shorts/search
- Price: $0.003/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/openweb-ninja-realtime-youtube-shorts-search-api-e4c301dd
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_6WS0Z6Q64ZdRDSG_1G7FV

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 openweb-ninja-realtime-youtube-shorts-search-api-e4c301dd
```

Example prompt: Search YouTube Shorts right now for 'morning workout routines' and show me the top results including titles, channels, and view counts.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need real-time, live YouTube Shorts SERP data without signing up for a YouTube Data API key or managing OAuth credentials. It's ideal for lightweight, pay-per-call scenarios where you want current Shorts results for a keyword without a subscription commitment. Prefer this over the official YouTube API when you want zero setup, micro-payment billing per call, and don't want to worry about quota limits tied to an account.

## Known failure modes

- Missing or malformed query parameter returns an error
- Payment failure or insufficient USDC balance blocks the call
- YouTube changes its Shorts page structure causing parsing errors
- Rate limiting or quota issues on the provider side
- Empty results if the query returns no Shorts on YouTube

## How this service works

40+ public web-data, SERP, e-commerce, real-estate, finance and AI-search APIs, payable per call over x402 (USDC on Base, Polygon, Arbitrum). No account or API key required. Most endpoints $0.003; AI-model endpoints $0.005.

## Output

A JSON object containing real-time YouTube Shorts search results for the given query, including video titles, URLs, channel names, view counts, thumbnails, and other SERP metadata scraped live from YouTube.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

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

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {}
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/openweb-ninja-realtime-youtube-shorts-search-api-e4c301dd/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from x402.openwebninja.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/x402.openwebninja.com/llms.txt)