The hashtag videos your agent needs.
YouTube Hashtag returns the videos on a hashtag page, each with views and channel, a page at a time.
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YouTube Hashtag APIfor AI agents
One API call to read a YouTube hashtag page. Get its videos as JSON.
What people use it for.
Track a campaign hashtag
Send your campaign's hashtag and save each videoId. New ids are new videos that use the tag.
Find active creators
Count the results by channelName. The channels that appear most often post the most under the hashtag.
Choose a hashtag
Compare views across two hashtags before you choose one for a video.
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
- 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
- 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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No. You call Stophy with a Stophy API key. You need no YouTube Data API key.
A results list and a cursor. Each video has videoId, videoUrl, title, channelName, channelUsername, durationSeconds, views, publishedAt, isShort and isLive.
The videos on the hashtag's own page, such as youtube.com/hashtag/sourdough. A search for the same word can return other videos.
Read isShort on each result. It is true for a Short and false for a normal video.
Send the cursor from the last response, with the same hashtag. Each page continues the hashtag page on YouTube.
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 youtubeHashtag.
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