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YouTube Education Channel Search
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YouTube Education Channel Search 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).
Searches YouTube's public channel-filtered results for educational channels by topic, returning channel metadata including ID, name, handle, subscriber count text, description snippet, and link.
Price / call$0.002
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StatusUnknown
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
Returns a JSON object containing the searched topic, the source YouTube search URL, a timestamp, and an array of up to ~20 channel objects each with: channel URL, name, handle, channelId, subscriber count text (e.g. '286K subscribers'), and a description snippet. Does not include exact subscriber counts or video lists.
Example use cases
Curriculum research for homeschoolers
“Can you find me YouTube education channels specifically about science so I can build a playlist of channels for my kids to learn from? I need the channel names, handles, and descriptions.”
Competitive research for edtech startup
“Search YouTube for education channels focused on coding and programming — I want to see the top ~20 channels with their subscriber counts and descriptions to understand who the big players are.”
Influencer outreach for online course
“I'm launching an online course on personal finance. Can you pull a list of YouTube education channels about personal finance, with their channel IDs and handles, so I can reach out to potential collaborators?”
Technical details
Endpoint
GEThttps://api.shopsocial-api.workers.dev/api/social/youtube-edu-channels?utm_source=zero.xyzWhen to prefer
Use this endpoint when you need to discover YouTube education channels by topic without the YouTube Data API quota costs or API key requirements. Best for channel discovery, competitive research, influencer identification, or content auditing tasks where approximate subscriber counts and channel metadata are sufficient and exact counts or video lists are not needed.
Side effects
- YouTube blocks or rate-limits the scrape request, returning empty or partial results
- Topic string outside 2-100 character limit causes validation error
- YouTube changes its HTML/JSON structure, breaking channel extraction
- Network timeout on the Cloudflare Worker fetch to YouTube
- Topic yields no matching channels, returning empty channels array
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| inputrequired | object | |
| output | object |
Output
Schema · Response
{
"type": "json",
"example": {
"topic": "education",
"source": "https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=education&sp=EgIQAg%3D%3D&hl=en&gl=US",
"channels": [
{
"url": "https://www.youtube.com/@TeachingsinEducation",
"name": "Teachings in Education",
"handle": "@TeachingsinEducation",
"channelId": "UCB-hXAnF8U_KMAgtAUUC7Aw",
"description": "Welcome to the #1 Resource for Educators on YouTube. Learn! Grow! Advance in Education with these Professional Videos!",
"subscribers": "286K subscribers"
},
{
"url": "https://www.youtube.com/@FAEdu",
"name": "Free Animated Education",
"handle": "@FAEdu",
"channelId": "UCbaZa-dV7h9QOLzrzrY363w",
"description": "To make Education Universal, Free, State of the Art and Available to Every Human being of the world. By combining World's best ...",
"subscribers": "160K subscribers"
}
],
"checkedAt": "2026-10-23T09:37:49.876Z",
"channelCount": 20
}
}Tags
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