# Orthogonal YouTube Video Search

> Orthogonal YouTube Video Search is a paid API for AI agents from x402.orthogonal.com, paid per call via x402, $0.04/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Searches YouTube videos by query string, returning paginated results with cost-efficient continuation billing for multi-page searches

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://x402.orthogonal.com/fiber/v1/youtube/search
- Price: $0.04/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/orthogonal-youtube-video-search-8e3868fc
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_VxgEWk7B8DdTx6qOuI_da

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 orthogonal-youtube-video-search-8e3868fc -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search YouTube for videos about 'beginner Python tutorials' and show me the top results.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need programmatic YouTube video search with cost-efficient multi-page result retrieval, especially when building agents that paginate through many results — the continuation billing model means only the first page of a logical search is charged, making deep searches economical. Prefer this over direct YouTube API access when you want a simple POST interface with USDC micropayment billing and no OAuth setup.

## Known failure modes

- Empty or invalid query string returns no results or an error
- Invalid nextPageToken causes pagination failure
- Changing search parameters while passing parentRequestId starts a new billable request instead of continuing
- Rate limiting or quota exhaustion from the underlying YouTube data source
- Network timeout for slow queries

## How this service works

Searches YouTube videos by query. Pagination billing: call the first page normally and save billing.requestId from the Orthogonal /v1/run response. For later page, offset, or cursor calls on the same logical search, pass parentRequestId with unchanged non-pagination parameters. Valid continuation calls still get their own request IDs and quoted price, but are charged 0. Changing filters starts a new billable request.

## Output

Returns a list of YouTube video results matching the search query, including video metadata such as titles, video IDs, thumbnails, and channel info, along with a nextPageToken for fetching subsequent pages and a billing requestId for cost-free pagination continuation.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "query": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Search query string."
  },
  "nextPageToken": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Pagination token. For continuation billing, keep non-pagination parameters unchanged and pass top-level parentRequestId from the first Orthogonal /v1/run response."
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/orthogonal-youtube-video-search-8e3868fc/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from x402.orthogonal.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/x402.orthogonal.com/llms.txt)