GET /api/v1/youtube/search
YouTube keyword search API
Search public YouTube videos by keyword. The entry point when your product or agent has a topic, not a channel or video id.
YouTube search API · 100 free credits / mo
What this endpoint returns
- Matching videos for this page
- Depth control for multi-page pulls
Built for products and agents
- Topic discovery and research agents
- RAG seed corpora from YouTube search
- Competitive keyword monitoring
Example request
curl -s 'https://trysocify.com/api/v1/youtube/search?keyword=magic' \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $SOCIFY_KEY"Same envelope as every Socify call: ok, platform, resource, data, meta.
Search FAQ
Videos only?
This search returns matching public videos. Resolve channels or single videos with the other YouTube endpoints afterward.
Typical agent chain?
search → video (stats) → comments, or search → channel → videos. One Socify key for the whole path.
More YouTube endpoints
Channel
channelYouTube channel scraper API
View endpoint →Videos
videosYouTube channel videos API
View endpoint →Shorts
shortsYouTube Shorts scraper API
View endpoint →Subscribers
subscribersYouTube subscriber count API
View endpoint →Video
videoYouTube video scraper API
View endpoint →Comments
commentsYouTube comments scraper API
View endpoint →
Ship YouTube search API today
One API key. Public YouTube data. No credit card to start.