The channel videos your agent needs.
YouTube Channel Search returns the videos of one channel that match a query, a page at a time.
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YouTube Channel Search APIfor AI agents
One API call to search inside a YouTube channel. Get the matching videos as JSON.
What people use it for.
Find a guest's episodes
Set channelId to a podcast and query to a guest's name. You get each episode where the guest appears.
Check what a creator said
Search a reviewer's channel for a product name. Pass the videoId to youtube.transcript to read what the reviewer said.
Avoid a repeat video
Search your own channel for a topic before you record. The results show whether you covered it and how many views it got.
More YouTube endpoints.
- SuggestionsGet YouTube search suggestions for a keyword
- 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
- 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 query, a channel and a Stophy API key. You need no YouTube Data API key and no Google login.
youtube.search searches all of YouTube. This endpoint searches the videos of one channel, like the search box on the channel's page.
A results list and a cursor. Each video has videoId, videoUrl, title, durationSeconds, views, thumbnailUrl, publishedAt, isShort and isLive.
query is required. Send the channel as channelId, which takes a handle such as @lexfridman or a channel id, or as channelUrl.
Send the cursor from the last response, with the same query and channel.
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 youtubeChannelSearch.
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