LurkAPI pricing: video search API
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83% complete: 5 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run LurkAPI through our video search API benchmark 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 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, PrismCrawl and ScrapeUnblocker are the best video search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: Free credits one of LurkAPI's 4 plans
- FreeFree credits$0.00 per 1,000
- $9 packStarter$0.90 per 1,000
- $59 packGrowth$0.59 per 1,000
- $225 packScale$0.45 per 1,000
Call:
GET / LurkAPI's only call for this APIAPI: Video search API one of LurkAPI's 37 APIs
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- Facebook Ad Library API
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- Search autocomplete API
- Local business reviews API
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- News API
- Instagram post API
- Instagram profile API
- LinkedIn company post API
- LinkedIn company data API
- LinkedIn profile API
- LinkedIn job details API
- LinkedIn job search API
- LinkedIn Ad Library API
- Snapchat profile API
- Telegram channel API
- Telegram channel post API
- Threads post API
- Threads profile API
- TikTok Ad Library API
- TikTok profile API
- TikTok video API
- TikTok Shop product API
- Truth Social post API
- Truth Social profile API
- X post API
- X profile API
- Video search API
- YouTube channel API
- YouTube channel video API
- Web scraping API
GET /v1/ web/ residential - Web scraping API
GET /v1/ web/ fetch - Web scraping API
GET /v1/ web/ render - Web scraping API
GET /v1/ web/ render-residential - Web scraping API
GET /v1/ web/ unblock
About this item
- A copy at most 15 minutes old. You get videos LurkAPI saved earlier.
- 5 of the 6 key fields we check. Length, Channel, Views, Snippet, Thumbnail.
- Nothing to pay. You get 100 credits, enough for 100 calls.
- One call. You send
querytoGET /. You can also sendv1/ youtube/ search type,uploadDate,duration,sortByandcontinuationToken. The call returns the videos that match. - Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
LurkAPI: video search API alternatives
LurkAPI alternatives: every video search API provider ranked
The table starts with LurkAPI's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to LurkAPI's. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most an hour old.
| LurkAPI, $225 pack | Search1API, $4,990 yearly, Enterprise (annual), POST /search, Search | Ujeebu, $3,229.20 yearly | Scrapingdog, $90 monthly, Standard, GET /google_videos | ValueSERP, $108,000 yearly | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 searches | $0.45 | $0.416 | $0.449 | $0.45 | $0.45 |
| Completeness | 83% | 67% | 67% | 33% | 0% |
| Billing | pay first | yearly | yearly | monthly | yearly |
| Pay | $225 | $4,990 | $3,229.20 | $90 | $108,000 |
| Enough for | 500,000 calls | 1,000,000 calls a month | 600,000 calls a month | 200,000 calls a month | 20,000,000 calls a month |
| Freshness | 15 minutes | live | live | live | live |
| Who can get it | anyone | anyone | anyone who is 18 or older, or 13 to 17 with a parent's or guardian's permission | anyone | anyone |
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.
Product details
The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.
- Length
- Date, not in the answer
- Channel
- Views
- Snippet
- Thumbnail
| $ per 1,000 searches | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Per | call |
| Billing | free |
| Also pays for | from the same budget: 87 other calls |
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| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | Search YouTube by keyword for videos, Shorts, channels and playlists, with date, length and type filters. |
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| Freshness | 15 minutes |
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| Keep data | no limit |
| Use data | Fair use: Don't try to break, overload or get around the limits of the service. Don't share or resell your API keys. Building your own products on top of LurkAPI is fine. Don't use LurkAPI to harass people or for anything illegal. [...] LurkAPI returns publicly available data. You're responsible for how you use it, including the privacy and data protection laws that apply to you. |
| Pay | $0 |
|---|---|
| You get | 100 credits |
| Enough for | 100 calls |
| Per second | 5 |
|---|---|
| Batch | 1 |
| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | query. Optional: type, uploadDate, duration, sortBy, continuationToken |
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| Method | GET |
| Path | /v1/youtube/search |
| Plan | Free credits |
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| Who can get it | anyone |
The 17 fields the plan's answer can hold
result type, video result ID, result URL, video result title, video result thumbnail, video result view count, video result view count text, video result published time, video result duration, video result badges, video result description, video result channel ID, video result channel title, video result channel handle, video result channel URL, video result channel thumbnail, next cursor