Question 1

What is Stophy?

Accepted Answer

An API for working with YouTube data in agent workflows. Search, transcripts with timestamps, comments, channel info. Everything comes back as JSON. One API key.

Question 2

Why not just build this myself?

Accepted Answer

Getting structured video data out of YouTube is harder than it looks. Authentication, rate limiting, format changes, transcript extraction, comment threading. And keeping it all running reliably is a separate problem from whatever you're actually trying to build. Stophy handles the plumbing.

Question 3

Why do AI agents need video data?

Accepted Answer

Video is where most of the web's actual knowledge lives. Tutorials, research talks, product reviews, interviews. Without a way to pull that content into structured form, your agent can't touch any of it. Stophy gives you the data so your agent can actually use it.

Question 4

How do credits work?

Accepted Answer

One request = one credit. Credits don't expire, don't reset monthly, and work across every endpoint. Buy a pack, use them whenever.

Question 5

Does Stophy work with agent frameworks and automation tools?

Accepted Answer

Yeah. Works with LangChain, CrewAI, n8n, Zapier, Make, OpenAI function calling. Anything that can make an HTTP request. Every endpoint returns the same JSON shape, so you define your tool schema once.

Question 6

What does the video endpoint return?

Accepted Answer

Video details, timestamped transcripts, comments, and reply threads. All from one endpoint. Pass a type parameter to get exactly what you need.

Question 7

How does Stophy fit into an agentic workflow?

Accepted Answer

Search for relevant videos, pull their transcripts, break them into timestamped chunks, feed them into your agent. Now your agent can cite the exact moment from a video. Not just the title. The playlist endpoint also lets you pull an entire channel's catalog in one go.

Question 8

What does the search endpoint return?

Accepted Answer

Videos, Shorts, channels, playlists, movies. Filter by type, recency, sort order, or duration. Every result includes the IDs you need to hit the video or channel endpoint next.

Question 9

What does the channel endpoint return?

Accepted Answer

Channel profile, subscriber count, and five tabs: videos, shorts, playlists, community posts, and about. Pass a tab parameter to get the slice you want. Sort by latest, popular, or oldest.

YouTube for AI agents.

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