The YouTube video details your agent needs.
YouTube Video returns one video with its title, views, likes, tags, chapters and most replayed moments.
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YouTube Video APIfor AI agents
One API call to get a YouTube video's details. Get stats, tags and chapters as JSON.
What people use it for.
Study a ranking video
Read the tags and category fields of the videos that rank for your keyword. Use them to plan your own titles and tags.
Track a video's growth
Save views, likes and comments each day. The change between two days shows how fast a video grows.
Find the best moments
Read mostReplayedAtSeconds and chapters. Cut clips at those positions for Shorts.
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
- 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 video link or a video id to Stophy. A call works without a Stophy API key, and a free daily limit applies.
One video. It has title, description, channelName, channelSubscribers, durationSeconds, views, likes, comments, category, tags, publishedAt, isShort and isLive.
Yes. chapters is a list, and each chapter has a title and startSeconds.
A list of positions in the video, in seconds. They are the moments that viewers replay most, as YouTube marks them on the progress bar.
No. This endpoint returns facts about the video. Call youtube.transcript for the spoken words and youtube.comments for the comments.
1 credit for each call that returns data. A call that returns an error 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 youtubeVideo.
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