# FlashData, free trial, POST /v1/queries, YouTube Search API (Async): Video search API

> Search YouTube videos by keyword and retrieve titles, channels, durations, view counts and thumbnails as JSON.

FlashData's video search API on its Free trial plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns all 6 key fields we check: Length, Date, Channel, Views, Snippet, Thumbnail.
We rank 370 plans by price. [SerpScraper.dev's $499 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/serpscraper-dev/499-monthly/llms.txt) costs the least per 1,000 searches: $0.033.
[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 [SerpBase](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/serpbase/100-monthly/llms.txt) are the best video search API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-youtube-search-api-async
- [Best video search API in 2026: providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-video-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://flashdata.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://data.flashdata.dev/v1/queries`, YouTube Search API (Async)
- API key: with the plan, on https://flashdata.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://flashdata.dev/docs/guides/async-batch?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: FlashData (https://flashdata.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-10-28

## In the answer

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

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Most per search: 20
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Google Search API · Google Images API · Google News API · Google Shopping API · Google Videos API · Google Places API · YouTube Extended Search API · YouTube Video Metadata API · YouTube Transcript API · YouTube Captions API · YouTube Channel API · YouTube Suggestions API · YouTube Trainability API · YouTube Download API · YouTube Search API (Realtime) · YouTube Search API (Batch)

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search YouTube videos by keyword and retrieve titles, channels, durations, view counts and thumbnails as JSON.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: "FlashData grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, and revocable right to access and use the Service for your internal or customer-facing business purposes during the applicable subscription, trial, or PAYG entitlement." "This license permits you to use Results only to the extent you have a lawful right to use the underlying third-party material." "You may not copy or mirror the Service as a competing service, reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract non-public source code except where law expressly permits, remove proprietary notices, evade technical restrictions, register or coordinate multiple accounts to bypass limits, or provide raw account or API-key access to an unaffiliated third party without written permission."

## Plan

- Pay: $0

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: by polling or webhook
- Median: 3.58 s

## The call

- You send: source "youtube_search", query. Optional: params.max_results, params.filters.upload_date, params.filters.type, params.filters.duration, params.filters.sort_by, params.filters.360, params.filters.3d, params.filters.4k, params.filters.creative_commons, params.filters.hd, params.filters.hdr, params.filters.live, params.filters.location, params.filters.purchased, params.filters.subtitles, params.filters.vr180, callback_url
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/queries

## About the plan

- Plan: Free trial
- Who can get it: anyone with a verified email account eligible for trial Credits

## The 16 fields the plan's answer can hold

search status, created at, credits consumed, search query, returned results count, video result ID, video result title, video result channel, video result channel ID, video result channel URL, video result duration, video result formatted duration, video result view count, video result published date, video result snippet, video result thumbnail

## FlashData's plans (8)

- [FlashData, free trial, POST /v1/queries, YouTube Search API (Async)](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-youtube-search-api-async/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [FlashData, top-up from $10, Pay as you go, POST /v1/queries, YouTube Search API (Async)](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/flashdata/top-up-from-10-pay-as-you-go-post-v1-queries-youtube-search-api-async/llms.txt): $0.50 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [FlashData, $49 monthly, Micro, POST /v1/queries, YouTube Search API (Async)](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/flashdata/49-monthly-micro-post-v1-queries-youtube-search-api-async/llms.txt): $0.392 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [FlashData, $199 monthly, Starter, POST /v1/queries, YouTube Search API (Async)](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/flashdata/199-monthly-starter-post-v1-queries-youtube-search-api-async/llms.txt): $0.348 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [FlashData, $499 monthly, Pro, POST /v1/queries, YouTube Search API (Async)](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/flashdata/499-monthly-pro-post-v1-queries-youtube-search-api-async/llms.txt): $0.299 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [FlashData, $999 monthly, Scale, POST /v1/queries, YouTube Search API (Async)](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/flashdata/999-monthly-scale-post-v1-queries-youtube-search-api-async/llms.txt): $0.25 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [FlashData, $1,999 monthly, Business, POST /v1/queries, YouTube Search API (Async)](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/flashdata/1999-monthly-business-post-v1-queries-youtube-search-api-async/llms.txt): $0.20 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [FlashData, contact us, Pay-as-you-go volume pricing, POST /v1/queries, YouTube Search API (Async)](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/flashdata/contact-us-pay-as-you-go-volume-pricing-post-v1-queries-youtube-search-api-async/llms.txt): 100% complete

## FlashData's calls for this API (6)

- `POST /v1/queries`, Google Videos API (Async): [FlashData, free trial, POST /v1/queries, Google Videos API (Async)](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/queries/batch`, Google Videos API (Batch): [FlashData, free trial, POST /v1/queries/batch, Google Videos API (Batch)](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-batch/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/queries/realtime`, Google Videos API (Realtime): [FlashData, free trial, POST /v1/queries/realtime, Google Videos API (Realtime)](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-realtime/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/queries`, YouTube Search API (Async): [FlashData, free trial, POST /v1/queries, YouTube Search API (Async)](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-youtube-search-api-async/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/queries/batch`, YouTube Search API (Batch): [FlashData, free trial, POST /v1/queries/batch, YouTube Search API (Batch)](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-batch-youtube-search-api-batch/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/queries/realtime`, YouTube Search API (Realtime): [FlashData, free trial, POST /v1/queries/realtime, YouTube Search API (Realtime)](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-realtime-youtube-search-api-realtime/llms.txt)

## FlashData's APIs (4)

- [FlashData: image search API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v1/queries](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries/llms.txt)
- [FlashData: image search API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v1/queries/batch](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-batch/llms.txt)
- [FlashData: image search API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v1/queries/realtime](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-realtime/llms.txt)
- [FlashData: news API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v1/queries](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries/llms.txt)
- [FlashData: news API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v1/queries/batch](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-batch/llms.txt)
- [FlashData: news API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v1/queries/realtime](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-realtime/llms.txt)
- [FlashData: SERP API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v1/queries, Google Places API (Async)](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-google-places-api-async/llms.txt)
- [FlashData: SERP API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v1/queries/batch, Google Places API (Batch)](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-batch-google-places-api-batch/llms.txt)
- [FlashData: SERP API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v1/queries/realtime, Google Places API (Realtime)](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-realtime-google-places-api-realtime/llms.txt)
- [FlashData: SERP API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v1/queries, Google Search API (Async)](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-google-search-api-async/llms.txt)
- [FlashData: SERP API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v1/queries/batch, Google Search API (Batch)](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-batch-google-search-api-batch/llms.txt)
- [FlashData: SERP API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v1/queries/realtime, Google Search API (Realtime)](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-realtime-google-search-api-realtime/llms.txt)
- [FlashData: SERP API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v1/queries, Google Shopping API (Async)](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-google-shopping-api-async/llms.txt)
- [FlashData: SERP API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v1/queries/batch, Google Shopping API (Batch)](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-batch-google-shopping-api-batch/llms.txt)
- [FlashData: SERP API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v1/queries/realtime, Google Shopping API (Realtime)](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-realtime-google-shopping-api-realtime/llms.txt)
- [FlashData: video search API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v1/queries, YouTube Search API (Async)](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-youtube-search-api-async/llms.txt)

## FlashData: video search API alternatives

- [Searlo, $799 pack](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/searlo/799-pack/llms.txt): $0.20 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [Scrappa, $1,000 pack](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/scrappa/1000-pack/llms.txt): $0.20 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $6,000 monthly, Enterprise Pro, GET /google_videos](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/scrapingdog/6000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.20 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [ScrapeBadger, $14,990 yearly, Volume, GET /v1/naver/video](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/scrapebadger/14990-yearly-volume-get-v1-naver-video/llms.txt): $0.208 per 1,000, 83% complete

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-28.

- https://flashdata.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://flashdata.dev/docs/errors?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://flashdata.dev/docs/guides/async-batch?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://flashdata.dev/docs/sources/youtube_search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://flashdata.dev/legal/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://flashdata.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://flashdata.dev/pricing/youtube-data?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing