YouTube Data API
APIGoogle's API for YouTube videos, channels, playlists, comments and search
- Price
- Free, with a daily quota
- Access
- API key (OAuth for user data)
About
The YouTube Data API v3 reads public videos, channels, playlists and comments with an API key, and uploads or manages content with OAuth. Default quota is 10,000 units a day plus 100 searches. Captions download only for videos you can edit, and uploads from unaudited projects stay private.
What you can do with it
- Search videos and read titles, view counts and channel details
- Upload videos and manage playlists on a user's channel
- Read, post and moderate comments on videos
Get started
- Create a Google Cloud project and enable YouTube Data API v3
- Create an API key, or an OAuth client for actions on a channel
Example
# Search public videos (a search uses the daily search.list quota)
curl "https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=snippet&q=surfing&type=video&maxResults=5&key=$YOUTUBE_API_KEY"
# Read a video's details and statistics
curl "https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?part=snippet,statistics&id=Ks-_Mh1QhMc&key=$YOUTUBE_API_KEY"Details
- Hosting
- Hosted service
- Available in
- Worldwide
- Official SDKs
- Python, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, C#, PHP, Go
- MCP server
- None
- Works with
- YouTube
