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The YouTube Search API provides real-time access to structured YouTube search results.

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Get Your API Key

Sign in at hasdata.com, go to your account settings, and copy your API key. All requests must include your key in the x-api-key header.

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Request Cost and API Credits

Each request to the YouTube Search API consumes API Credits from your account balance.
  • Cost per request: 10 API Credits
  • Credits are deducted only for successful requests.
  • Your total available credits depend on your active plan.
You can use your credits across all HasData APIs. The same credit balance is shared platform-wide.
Unused credits do not roll over. Any remaining credits expire at the end of the current billing period.
To monitor your credit usage and remaining balance, sign in to your account dashboard at app.hasdata.com.

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Make Your First Request

curl --request GET -G \
  --url 'https://api.hasdata.com/scrape/youtube/search' \
  --data-urlencode 'q=BMW' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --header 'x-api-key: <your-api-key>'

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API Parameters

ParameterDefault ValueRequiredDescription
qBMWYesFree-text search query, exactly as a user would type it into the YouTube search box.
gl-NoThe two-letter country code for the country you want to limit the search to.
hl-NoThe two-letter language code for the language you want to use for the search.
deviceType-NoDevice type for the request.
sp-NoRaw YouTube sp filter token, copied verbatim from a YouTube search URL (e.g. EgIQAQ%253D%253D). When provided, it overrides sortBy, date, videoType, length, and filters[]. Use only if you need a YouTube-side filter that this API does not expose as a structured parameter.
sortBy-NoSort order applied to the results page. relevance (default) — best match for the query; date — newest first; views — most viewed first; rating — highest rated first; popularity — trending/most popular.
date-NoLimit results to videos uploaded within this time window relative to now.
videoType-NoRestrict results to a single YouTube content type — regular videos, Shorts, channels, playlists, or movies.
length-NoFilter by video duration bucket:
- under4 — under 4 minutes
- between420 — 4 to 20 minutes
- plus20 — over 20 minutes
filters[]-NoFeature flags to require on results. Multiple values are combined with AND (every flag must apply).

- hd — HD quality
- k4 — 4K quality
- hdr — HDR
- subtitles — has subtitles/closed captions
- cc — Creative Commons license
- d3 — 3D video
- d360 — 360° video
- vr180 — VR180 video
- live — currently live
- bought — purchased/paid content
- location — has a geographic location tag
paginationToken-NoToken returned in the previous response to fetch the next page.