# DataBlue, free: Video search API

> Paginated YouTube video search with titles, thumbnails, view counts, durations, links, and honest completeness metadata.

DataBlue's video search API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns all 6 key fields we check: Length, Date, Channel, Views, Snippet, Thumbnail.
We haven't run DataBlue through [our video search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-video-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 453 plans for video search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.90 per 1,000 searches or less.
[Vimeo's $20 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/vimeo/20-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: as little as $0.0037. Vimeo's $20 monthly plan covers up to 5,400,000 pages a month at no extra cost. Each page holds 100 results.
[SerpKite](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/serpkite/300-pack-pro-post-v1-videos-bing-videos/llms.txt), [PrismCrawl](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/prismcrawl/10-pack-lite-post-v1-yahoo-videos-search/llms.txt) and [ScrapeUnblocker](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/scrapeunblocker/299-monthly/llms.txt) are the best video search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/datablue/free
- [Video search API: 12 providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-video-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.datablue.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.datablue.dev/v1/data/youtube/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.datablue.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.datablue.dev/youtube-search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: DataBlue (https://www.datablue.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 100%
- Length: ✓
- Date: ✓
- Channel: ✓
- Views: ✓
- Snippet: ✓
- Thumbnail: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $0.00
- Per: page of 20
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 43 other calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Paginated YouTube video search with titles, thumbnails, view counts, durations, links, and honest completeness metadata.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You agree not to use the Services to: Violate any law, regulation, or third-party right, including intellectual property, privacy, and data-protection laws, Collect, store, or process personal data in a manner that violates applicable law or the rights of data subjects, Send spam, malware, or unsolicited communications, or facilitate fraud, phishing, or deceptive practices, Attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Services, other accounts, or our systems, or probe, scan, or test their vulnerability without authorization, Resell, sublicense, or expose the raw Services as a competing API without our written permission, Exceed rate limits, circumvent usage metering, or place an unreasonable load on the infrastructure, or Use the Services to build profiles for unlawful surveillance, discrimination, or harassment. You are solely responsible for ensuring that your specific use of the data you obtain through the Services complies with the laws, regulations, and terms that apply to you and to the sources you target.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 credits
- Enough for: about 6 pages

## Rate limit

- Concurrent: 5
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: limit, sp, cursor, max_pages, country, language
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/data/youtube/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone at least 16 years old and legally able to enter into the Terms of Service

## The 25 fields the plan's answer can hold

success, time taken, query, returned results count, complete, stop reason, pages fetched, next cursor, scanned count, matched count, duplicate count, video result ID, video result title, video result link, video result channel, video result channel ID, video result view count, video result view count text, video result view count status, video result published date, video result duration, video result duration seconds, video result thumbnail, video result description, video result badges

## DataBlue's plans (12)

- [DataBlue, free](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/datablue/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [DataBlue, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/datablue/29-monthly/llms.txt): $116.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [DataBlue, $59 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/datablue/59-monthly/llms.txt): $52.444 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [DataBlue, $149 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/datablue/149-monthly/llms.txt): $46.291 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [DataBlue, $299 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/datablue/299-monthly/llms.txt): $41.60 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [DataBlue, $699 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/datablue/699-monthly/llms.txt): $38.566 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [DataBlue, $319 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/datablue/319-yearly/llms.txt): $106.333 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [DataBlue, $649 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/datablue/649-yearly/llms.txt): $48.074 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [DataBlue, $1,639 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/datablue/1639-yearly/llms.txt): $42.434 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [DataBlue, $3,289 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/datablue/3289-yearly/llms.txt): $38.133 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [DataBlue, $7,689 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/datablue/7689-yearly/llms.txt): $35.352 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [DataBlue, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/datablue/contact-us/llms.txt): 100% complete, live

## DataBlue's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /v1/data/youtube/search`: [DataBlue, free](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/datablue/free/llms.txt)

## DataBlue's APIs (8)

- [DataBlue: web scraping API pricing, 12 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/datablue/free/llms.txt)
- [DataBlue: web search API pricing, 12 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/datablue/free/llms.txt)
- [DataBlue: Facebook Ad Library API pricing, 12 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/datablue/free/llms.txt)
- [DataBlue: news API pricing, 12 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/datablue/free/llms.txt)
- [DataBlue: video search API pricing, 12 plans](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/datablue/free/llms.txt)
- [DataBlue: YouTube channel API pricing, 12 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/datablue/free/llms.txt)
- [DataBlue: YouTube channel video API pricing, 12 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/datablue/free/llms.txt)
- [DataBlue: SERP API pricing, 12 plans, GET /v1/data/google/serp, Google SERP Advanced](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/datablue/free-get-v1-data-google-serp-google-serp-advanced/llms.txt)
- [DataBlue: SERP API pricing, 12 plans, GET /v1/data/google/serp, Google SERP Lite](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/datablue/free-get-v1-data-google-serp-google-serp-lite/llms.txt)

## DataBlue: video search API alternatives

- [SerpWow, $155 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/serpwow/155-monthly/llms.txt): $15.50 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [SerpApi, $25 monthly, Starter, GET /search, Bing Videos API](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/serpapi/25-monthly-starter-get-search-bing-videos-api/llms.txt): $25.00 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [Scale SERP, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/scale-serp/29-monthly/llms.txt): $29.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [QuanticData, $299 monthly, Scale, POST /scraper/collectors/search_videos/run](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/quanticdata/299-monthly-scale-post-scraper-collectors-search-videos-run/llms.txt): $33.488 per 1,000, 67% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-05.

- https://docs.datablue.dev/plans-credits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.datablue.dev/rate-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.datablue.dev/youtube-search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://www.datablue.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://www.datablue.dev/apis?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://www.datablue.dev/legal/terms-of-service?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://www.datablue.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing