# Rotary Agency YouTube Search API

> Rotary Agency YouTube Search API is a paid API for AI agents from rotaryagency.uk, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Searches YouTube and returns structured video results for a given query term

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://rotaryagency.uk/api/free/youtube-search
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/rotary-agency-youtube-search-api-49df04f1
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_RLHDNlWqtgmWbVpTflZPo

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 rotary-agency-youtube-search-api-49df04f1
```

Example prompt: Search YouTube for 'beginner Python tutorials' and give me the top results with titles, channel names, and links.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need lightweight, low-cost programmatic YouTube search results without managing a YouTube Data API key or quota. At $0.002/call it is cost-effective for high-frequency searches where you want structured JSON results without setting up direct YouTube API access.

## Known failure modes

- Empty query string returns an error or empty results
- Query with no matching videos returns an empty results array
- YouTube rate limiting or access restrictions may cause intermittent failures
- Malformed or excessively long query strings may return errors
- Network or upstream YouTube API changes could cause unexpected response format shifts

## How this service works

Free-source data APIs (100% margin, no proxy, $0.002/call): ...

## Output

Returns a structured JSON array of YouTube video search results, each containing video ID, title, channel name, thumbnail URL, video URL, publish date, and view count for the matched query.

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "varies": "endpoint-specific structured JSON"
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/rotary-agency-youtube-search-api-49df04f1/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from rotaryagency.uk](https://www.zero.xyz/host/rotaryagency.uk/llms.txt)