# YouTube Video Metadata (No API Key)

> YouTube Video Metadata (No API Key) is a paid API for AI agents from intel.rallylive.ca, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Fetches YouTube video metadata — title, channel name, channel URL, thumbnail, and video ID — via YouTube's public oEmbed endpoint, no API key required.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://intel.rallylive.ca/data/youtube-meta
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/youtube-video-metadata-no-api-key-bcde3e6d
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_7zbJQn1wAT_vtq5hCauMa

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 youtube-video-metadata-no-api-key-bcde3e6d
```

Example prompt: Can you grab the title, channel name, and thumbnail for this YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need basic YouTube video metadata (title, channel, thumbnail) quickly and cheaply without setting up Google API credentials. It's ideal for link-preview generation, content enrichment pipelines, or any scenario where you only need oEmbed-level metadata rather than full YouTube Data API fields like view counts, likes, or comments.

## Known failure modes

- Video URL is invalid or malformed — endpoint returns an error or empty result
- Video has been deleted or made private — oEmbed returns no data
- YouTube oEmbed service is temporarily unavailable — upstream timeout or 5xx error
- Non-YouTube URL passed as input — endpoint cannot resolve oEmbed data

## How this service works

YouTube video metadata without an API key: title, channel name and URL, thumbnail and video ID via YouTube's public oEmbed endpoint. $0.01 per video.

## Output

Returns the video's title, the channel name and channel URL, the thumbnail image URL, and the YouTube video ID — all sourced from YouTube's public oEmbed endpoint without requiring a Google/YouTube API key.

## 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",
     "properties": {}
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

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