# DeepAPI, free: Video search API

> Search YouTube videos by keyword and return video metadata.

DeepAPI's $1 starting credit plan for the video search API costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. We check each provider's docs for 6 fields. DeepAPI's docs list all 6: Length, Date, Channel, Views, Snippet, Thumbnail.
We haven't run DeepAPI through [our video search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-video-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 649 plans for video search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.20 or less per 1,000 searches. [See the best free video search API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-video-search-api.txt)
[TranscriptYT's $3 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/transcriptyt/3-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches. TranscriptYT's $3 monthly plan charges nothing per call. You get as many searches as TranscriptYT's rate limit allows. [SerpBase's $3 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/serpbase/3-monthly/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: $3.00.
[TranscriptYT's $45 pack](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/transcriptyt/45-pack/llms.txt) covers any number of searches. TranscriptYT's $45 pack costs more up front than TranscriptYT's $3 monthly plan.
[Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/scrappa/25-pack/llms.txt), [TranscriptYT](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/transcriptyt/3-monthly/llms.txt) and [SerpScraper.dev](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/serpscraper-dev/79-monthly/llms.txt) are the best video search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/deepapi/free
- [Video search API in 2026: the best of 40+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-video-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://deepapi.co/docs/pricing.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://deepapi.co/v1/scrape/youtube/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://deepapi.co/docs/pricing.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://deepapi.co/docs/reference.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: DeepAPI (https://deepapi.co?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## In the answer

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

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $0.00
- Per: page of 5
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: 74 other DeepAPI calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search YouTube videos by keyword and return video metadata.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Lawful use only. Use DeepAPI only for lawful purposes. You must comply with all laws that apply to you — including privacy, data protection, anti-spam, intellectual property, and computer misuse laws — and with any third-party terms that bind you. [...] Web data rules. DeepAPI reads only publicly available web pages, without logging in. You must not use the service, or combine it with anything else, to: access data behind a login, paywall, or other access control, or submit credentials, session cookies, or authentication tokens for any third-party site, create or use fake accounts or misrepresent your identity to any platform, bypass or attempt to bypass technical protection measures such as CAPTCHAs, login walls, IP blocks, or anti-bot systems, collect data about people to stalk, harass, dox, discriminate against, or surveil them, resell raw personal data obtained through DeepAPI as a data product, or use it in ways privacy law forbids.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: $1
- Enough for: 8 pages

## Rate limit

- Per second: 166.67
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call or by polling

## The call

- You send: Idempotency-Key header, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: query, sort, since, maxItems
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/scrape/youtube/search

## About the plan

- Plan: $1 starting credit
- Who can get it: anyone who signs up and verifies their account

## The 14 fields the plan's answer can hold

video result ID, video result title, video result link, video result type, video result view count, video result comment count, video result published date, video result duration, video result description, video result thumbnail, video result channel, video result channel URL, video result channel handle, video result subscribers

## DeepAPI's plans (2)

- [DeepAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/deepapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [DeepAPI, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/deepapi/top-up/llms.txt): $125.00 per 1,000, 100% complete

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

- `POST /v1/scrape/youtube/search`: [DeepAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/deepapi/free/llms.txt)

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- [DeepAPI: YouTube channel video API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/deepapi/free/llms.txt)

## DeepAPI: video search API alternatives

- [Viral Outliers, $17 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/viral-outliers/17-monthly/llms.txt): $68.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, stored
- [DataBlue, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/datablue/29-monthly/llms.txt): $116.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [TubeLab, $348 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/tubelab/348-yearly/llms.txt): $145.00 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [OutlierKit, $1,999 yearly, Max, POST /outliers/search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/outlierkit/1999-yearly-max-post-outliers-search/llms.txt): $166.583 per 1,000, 100% complete, stored

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-10.

- https://deepapi.co?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://deepapi.co/docs/pricing.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://deepapi.co/docs/reference.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://deepapi.co/index.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://deepapi.co/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://deepapi.co/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing