Video search monitoring
Use YouTube endpoints to turn video search monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Build creator intelligence, video research, transcript, and audience-comment workflows without maintaining YouTube scrapers.
Collect YouTube video, channel, playlist, search, transcript, and comments data through documented Crawlora API endpoints.
Endpoint families
6
Documented params
47
Examples
13
Live catalog snapshot
Active endpoints
13
Methods
GET
Required params
26
Schema refs
13
{
"platform": "YouTube",
"endpoint": "youtube-video",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/youtube/video/{id}",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Related use cases
Free tools
Showcase proof
Explore structured examples generated from public YouTube videos. See how Crawlora turns transcripts, comments, metadata, topics, and summaries into JSON for creator intelligence, RAG, content research, and monitoring workflows.
Transcript, comment, summary, topic, and metadata records for public AI videos.
Open examplesStructured public podcast and interview examples for searchable video research.
Open examplesFounder, market, and operator video examples for public business intelligence workflows.
Open examplesCreator and audience intelligence examples built from public transcripts, metadata, and comments.
Open examplesOpen the full Crawlora YouTube video intelligence showcase library.
Open examplesUse cases
Collect YouTube video, channel, playlist, search, transcript, and comments data through documented Crawlora API endpoints.
Use YouTube endpoints to turn video search monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use YouTube endpoints to turn creator and channel research into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use YouTube endpoints to turn transcript and comments analysis into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Managed execution
Every figure below is read from the live YouTube endpoint catalog — 13 endpoints, 47 documented request parameters, and 13 published response schemas — the same catalog Docs and Playground run against.
13 documented YouTube endpoints, grouped into 9 request families — Channel, Transcript and Captions, plus 6 more.
47 request parameters are documented across those YouTube endpoints, 26 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
13 of the 13 YouTube endpoints ship a recorded example response, and 13 carry a documented response schema — you can code against the real JSON before the first request.
YouTube endpoints document their error responses (400, 404, 429 and 500) alongside the success schema, so a block, a rate limit, or a missing record comes back as a typed error rather than silently empty data.
13 hosted MCP tools back the YouTube endpoints, so an agent can call the same routes with the same parameters and the same JSON contract, with no custom glue.
Coverage map
These cards are generated from the active endpoint catalog, so the landing page reflects the same API surface used by Docs and Playground.
/youtube/channel/{id}/videos
/youtube/transcript/{id}
/youtube/captions/{id}
/youtube/comments/{id}
/youtube/playlist/{id}
/youtube/profile/{id}
Featured endpoints
/youtube/video/{id}Returns title, description, stats, and captions for a YouTube video ID.
MCP tool youtube_video
/youtube/transcript/{id}Returns transcript segments for a YouTube video using YouTube's native player captions. Set `format=text`, `format=srt`, or `format=vtt` to receive plain-text output instead of the standard response envelope.
MCP tool youtube_transcript
/youtube/comments/{id}Returns a page of comments for a specific YouTube video.
Response notes
- Pass the previous `continuation_token` value to fetch the next page. Example response: ```json { "code": 200, "msg": "OK", "data": { "comments": [ { "comment_id": "UgzjL_eQm9EVQN5n9Ex4AaABAg", "content": "This is OpenAI's daily reminder to NOT PUT ADS ON CHATGPT!!!", "channel_id": "UC1VvgrsdOvQoQvXixTe9Y3Q", "user_name": "@hudsonsknexproductions", "published_time": "2025-07-02T17:13:47.01045379Z", "reply_count": 7 } ], "continuation_token": "Eg0SC2F0WHlYUDN5WVo0GAYy0AIKpgJnZXRfcmFua2VkX3N0cmVhbXMtLUNxVUJDSUFFRlJlMzBUZ2FtZ0VLbFFFSTJGOFFnQVFZQnlLS0Fac1VKOWstb2JpbmtlTGExaFI3aEhFV..." } } ```
MCP tool youtube_comments
/youtube/searchReturns normalized YouTube search results using YouTube's InnerTube search API. Pass `continuation_token` from a previous response to retrieve the next page. Use `q` as the primary query parameter; `search_query` is accepted as an alias.
MCP tool youtube_search
/youtube/profile/{id}Returns full profile details for a YouTube channel.
MCP tool youtube_profile
/youtube/playlist/{id}Returns playlist metadata, normalized video items, and an optional continuation token for pagination.
MCP tool youtube_playlist
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Company coverage
Alphabet Inc. · GOOGL
YouTube is operated by Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL). Crawlora's SEC endpoints take the same company's CIK, so filings, financials, insider transactions and 13F holdings come from the same API key as the YouTube endpoints above.
Other Alphabet Inc. platforms in the catalog
How to scrape YouTube
YouTube holds transcripts, comments, and channel data that power research and AI pipelines. Crawlora's YouTube endpoints return them as structured JSON — including full transcripts.
A video, a channel, a video's full transcript, or its comment threads.
Pass the video or channel URL/ID to Crawlora's YouTube endpoint.
Receive title, views, likes, channel stats, the full transcript, and comment threads as clean JSON.
Pipe transcripts into LLMs and vector stores, or re-run to track views and new comments.
FAQ
Send a YouTube video or channel URL to Crawlora's YouTube endpoint and get structured JSON — title, views, likes, channel stats, full transcript, and comments — no API quota to manage. Collect public data and respect YouTube's terms.
Yes — Crawlora returns the full transcript for videos that have captions, ideal for RAG and content research. You can also try it instantly with the free YouTube Transcript Extractor at /tools/youtube-transcript-extractor.
Yes. The official YouTube Data API v3 works well but has a limited daily quota (10,000 units by default), needs OAuth or API-key setup, and doesn't return video transcripts. Crawlora's YouTube endpoints have no per-day quota to manage, use one x-api-key, and include full transcripts and comments as JSON — a practical alternative for research, RAG, and monitoring.
Collecting publicly accessible video, transcript, and comment data is generally permissible if you respect YouTube's terms of use, robots directives, rate limits, and applicable law. This is for public data you're authorized to collect.