The YouTube suggestions your agent needs.
YouTube Autocomplete returns the search suggestions for a keyword, each with its rank. Set the country and language.
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YouTube Autocomplete APIfor AI agents
One API call to get YouTube search suggestions. Get keywords in rank order as JSON.
What people use it for.
Find video ideas
Send the start of a title, such as how to learn. Each keyword is a phrase that viewers type into YouTube.
Build a keyword list
Send your topic followed by each letter of the alphabet. Join the keyword lists to get a long list of phrases.
Compare markets
Send the same query with country set to us, gb and in. The lists show how viewers in each country phrase a search.
More YouTube endpoints.
- SearchSearch YouTube videos, channels, playlists and shorts
- TranscriptGet what a YouTube video says, from its captions
- VideoGet a video's stats, description, chapters and most replayed moments
- CommentsGet a video's comments, or the replies to one comment
- ChannelGet a channel's profile and one tab of videos, shorts, live, playlists, podcasts or posts
- Channel searchSearch one channel's videos, like the search box on its YouTube page
- Related videosGet the videos YouTube suggests next to a video, like its Up next list
- HashtagGet the videos on a YouTube hashtag page, like youtube.com/hashtag/sourdough
- PostGet a YouTube community post and its comments
- ChartsGet YouTube Charts: top songs, videos, artists, Shorts songs, podcasts or trending
- PlaylistGet a playlist and a page of its videos
- All YouTube endpointsOne API for YouTube data. Get videos, transcripts, comments and channels as JSON.
Ways to call it.
- Use the APISend a POST request with a Bearer key. Every endpoint returns success, data, creditsUsed and requestId.
- Use MCPAdd https://api.stophy.dev/mcp to Claude, Cursor or Codex. The agent finds an endpoint and calls it.
- Use the SDKInstall the TypeScript or Python client. Call an endpoint by its id, such as youtube.transcript.
- Use the CLICall an endpoint from the terminal. The CLI prints JSON, so you can pipe the result into a script.
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Questions and answers.
No. You send a keyword and a Stophy API key. You need no YouTube Data API key and no Google login.
A results list. Each item has a keyword, which is one suggestion, and a rank, which is its place in the list.
country takes a two-letter code and defaults to us. language takes a tag such as en or pt-BR and defaults to en. Suggestions change with both.
No. The endpoint returns the suggestions and their order. It has no search volume field.
1 credit for each call that returns data. A call that returns an error or an empty list uses 0 credits.
Yes. Add the MCP server at https://api.stophy.dev/mcp to Claude, Cursor or Codex. The agent calls the endpoint by the id youtubeSuggest.
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