# SiteCheck Shop & Social – YouTube Hashtag Videos

> SiteCheck Shop & Social – YouTube Hashtag Videos is a paid API for AI agents from api.shopsocial-api.workers.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-29).

Fetches the first page of videos (~10-12) for a given YouTube hashtag, returning video ID, title, channel, view count, age, duration, and URL.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.shopsocial-api.workers.dev/api/social/youtube-hashtag?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-29
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/sitecheck-shop-social-youtube-hashtag-videos-779b00c2
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_t-geKvGldu4kj7QVe2M0b

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 sitecheck-shop-social-youtube-hashtag-videos-779b00c2
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up the current list of videos showing on YouTube's #fitness hashtag page — I want the titles, channels, view counts, and durations for whatever appears on the first page?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a quick snapshot of what's currently appearing on a YouTube hashtag page — including titles, channels, view counts, and durations — without needing full channel history, comments, or authenticated access. Ideal for trend monitoring, content discovery, and competitive research where first-page visibility is the metric that matters. Prefer this over YouTube Data API when you want no quota overhead and only need the public hashtag feed view.

## Known failure modes

- Missing or invalid 'tag' parameter returns an error
- YouTube page layout changes may break scraping and return incomplete or empty results
- Hashtag with no videos returns an empty array
- Rate limiting or IP blocking by YouTube may cause failures
- Very new or low-traffic hashtags may return fewer than 10 results
- View counts may be approximate or formatted differently for very large numbers

## How this service works

Pay-per-call e-commerce, product, price and social media data tools for AI agents, from public sources. Payment: x402, USDC on Base, Solana, Arc, Polygon, Arbitrum, Monad, World Chain, Optimism, Avalanche, Celo or Stellar, or RLUSD/XRP on the XRP Ledger. No signup, no API key; a failed call is not charged.

## Output

A JSON object containing the hashtag string, a checkedAt timestamp, the source URL, and an array of up to ~12 video objects each with: videoId, title, channel name, views (formatted text like '617,370 views'), published age (e.g. '6d ago'), duration (e.g. '0:14'), and full YouTube watch URL.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "tag"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "tag": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Hashtag without #, letters, digits or _ (2-50 characters)"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "source": "https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/shorts?hl=en&gl=US",
  "videos": [
   {
    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkZuRMfq2Vo",
    "title": "What’s a penguin? 🐧 #shorts #trending #funny #viral #fyp",
    "views": "617,370 views",
    "channel": "agset211",
    "videoId": "pkZuRMfq2Vo",
    "duration": "0:14",
    "published": "6d ago"
   },
   {
    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC12nBdd9T8",
    "title": "Tom 🍓Jerry(Rithvi&Kavi)Real End Twist😂🎈 #shorts",
    "views": "327,078,264 views",
    "channel": "KL BRO Biju Rithvik",
    "videoId": "qC12nBdd9T8",
    "duration": "1:00",
    "published": "5mo ago"
   }
  ],
  "hashtag": "#shorts",
  "checkedAt": "2026-10-23T09:37:48.191Z",
  "videoCount": 12
 }
}
```

## More

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