# GetYouTubeTranscript, free, GET /search: Video search API

> Search YouTube videos with filters and pagination.

GetYouTubeTranscript's Free plan for the video search API costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. GetYouTubeTranscript's docs list all 6 fields on our checklist: Length, Date, Channel, Views, Snippet, Thumbnail.
We haven't run GetYouTubeTranscript through [our video search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-video-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 622 plans for video search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.20 per 1,000 searches or less. [See how many video search API plans are free.](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.
[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), [SerpScraper.dev](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/serpscraper-dev/139-monthly/llms.txt) and [TranscriptYT](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/transcriptyt/3-monthly/llms.txt) are the best video search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/getyoutubetranscript/free-get-search
- [Video search API: the best of 30+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-video-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://getyoutubetranscript.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://getyoutubetranscript.com/api/v1/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://getyoutubetranscript.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://getyoutubetranscript.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: GetYouTubeTranscript (https://getyoutubetranscript.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

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

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $0.00
- Per: page of 50
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Get a YouTube video transcript · List a video's caption languages · Resolve a channel handle/URL to a channel ID · List every video in a playlist · Get a channel's metadata and latest uploads · Search within one channel's videos · List every video a channel has uploaded · List a channel's playlists · List a channel's community posts · Get a channel's banner and avatar · Get the videos YouTube suggests next to a video · Get a video's estimated likes and dislikes · Queue transcripts for up to 100 videos

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search YouTube videos with filters and pagination.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You agree not to, and not to permit others to: Use the Service for any unlawful purpose or in violation of YouTube's own terms of service, Circumvent, or attempt to circumvent, rate limits, credit metering, or access controls, Resell, sublicense, or provide the Service (or access to your API key) to third parties as a standalone competing product, Use the Service to build a dataset for training a model that directly competes with the Service, without our written permission, Interfere with or disrupt the integrity or performance of the Service or its underlying infrastructure, Misrepresent transcripts or data obtained from the Service as your own original content in a way that infringes the rights of the original video's creator. [...] API keys are personal to your account and must not be shared, sold, or exposed in client-side or publicly accessible code. [...] Transcripts, titles, thumbnails, and other metadata returned by the Service originate from YouTube and belong to their respective creators and rightsholders.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 credits
- Enough for: 100 pages, once

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: page_token, type, country, language, limit
- Method: GET
- Path: /search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone at least 18 years old, or the age of legal majority in their jurisdiction

## The 17 fields the plan's answer can hold

video result position, video result link, video result title, video result description, video result thumbnail, video result rich thumbnail, video result duration, video result published date, video result view count text, video result channel, video result channel URL, video result channel thumbnail, video result channel verified, video result ID, search query, total results, next cursor

## GetYouTubeTranscript's plans (6)

- [GetYouTubeTranscript, free, GET /search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/getyoutubetranscript/free-get-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [GetYouTubeTranscript, $5 monthly, Monthly, GET /search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/getyoutubetranscript/5-monthly-monthly-get-search/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [GetYouTubeTranscript, $19 monthly, Starter, GET /search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/getyoutubetranscript/19-monthly-starter-get-search/llms.txt): $2.533 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [GetYouTubeTranscript, $49 monthly, Pro, GET /search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/getyoutubetranscript/49-monthly-pro-get-search/llms.txt): $1.96 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [GetYouTubeTranscript, $99 monthly, Scale, GET /search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/getyoutubetranscript/99-monthly-scale-get-search/llms.txt): $1.65 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [GetYouTubeTranscript, $54 yearly, Annual, GET /search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/getyoutubetranscript/54-yearly-annual-get-search/llms.txt): $4.50 per 1,000, 100% complete

## GetYouTubeTranscript's calls for this API (2)

- `GET /channel/search`: [GetYouTubeTranscript, free, GET /channel/search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/getyoutubetranscript/free-get-channel-search/llms.txt)
- `GET /search`: [GetYouTubeTranscript, free, GET /search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/getyoutubetranscript/free-get-search/llms.txt)

## GetYouTubeTranscript's APIs (3)

- [GetYouTubeTranscript: YouTube channel API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/getyoutubetranscript/free/llms.txt)
- [GetYouTubeTranscript: YouTube channel video API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/getyoutubetranscript/free/llms.txt)
- [GetYouTubeTranscript: video search API pricing, 6 plans, GET /search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/getyoutubetranscript/free-get-search/llms.txt)

## GetYouTubeTranscript: video search API alternatives

- [ScrapeBadger, $49 monthly, Starter, GET /v1/google/videos/search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/scrapebadger/49-monthly-starter-get-v1-google-videos-search/llms.txt): $1.633 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [AnyCrawler, $80 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/anycrawler/80-monthly/llms.txt): $1.667 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Scrapall, $45 pack](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/scrapall/45-pack/llms.txt): $1.667 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [TranscriptFetch, $150 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/transcriptfetch/150-yearly/llms.txt): $1.667 per 1,000, 67% 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 2026-11-07.

- https://getyoutubetranscript.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://getyoutubetranscript.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://getyoutubetranscript.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://getyoutubetranscript.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://getyoutubetranscript.com/terms-and-conditions?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing