# Openhandle, free: Video search API

> Search public YouTube videos or Shorts.

Openhandle's Free plan for the video search API costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. Openhandle's docs list all 6 fields on our checklist: Length, Date, Channel, Views, Snippet, Thumbnail.
We haven't run Openhandle 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/openhandle/free
- [Video search API: the best of 30+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-video-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://openhandle.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.openhandle.dev/v1/youtube/search/posts`
- API key: with the plan, on https://openhandle.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://openhandle.dev/docs/api-reference/youtube-search-posts-list?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: Openhandle (https://openhandle.dev?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, size not stated
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 120 other calls

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search public YouTube videos or Shorts.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You agree to use the Service only for lawful purposes, and not to: harass, stalk, or surveil private persons, or build tools whose purpose is to target private persons, use retrieved data for unsolicited mass communication, try to access private content, other customers' data, or the Service's internals, circumvent rate limits, metering, request caps, or spend caps, resell raw, unmodified access to the API without our written agreement, use the Service in violation of law that applies to you, including data protection law in your jurisdiction. [...] Rights in platform content stay with the platforms and their users. We grant no rights in retrieved content beyond delivering it to you.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 requests
- Enough for: 100 pages, once
- Expires: never

## Rate limit

- Per second: 2
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: freshness, sort, type, duration, uploaded, cursor
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/youtube/search/posts

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone who verifies an email address

## The 22 fields the plan's answer can hold

next cursor, has more, video result ID, video result link, video result title, video result description, video result thumbnail, video result rich thumbnail, video result duration seconds, video result published date, video result type, video result language, video result is live, video result has captions, video result view count, video result like count, video result comment count, video result channel, video result channel ID, video result channel handle, video result channel verified, video result channel thumbnail

## Openhandle's plans (4)

- [Openhandle, free](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/openhandle/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [Openhandle, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/openhandle/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [Openhandle, top-up from $10](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/openhandle/top-up-from-10/llms.txt): $2.50 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [Openhandle, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/openhandle/contact-us/llms.txt): 100% complete

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

- `GET /v1/youtube/search/posts`: [Openhandle, free](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/openhandle/free/llms.txt)

## Openhandle's APIs (11)

- [Openhandle: Instagram post API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/openhandle/free/llms.txt)
- [Openhandle: Instagram profile API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/openhandle/free/llms.txt)
- [Openhandle: Reddit post API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/openhandle/free/llms.txt)
- [Openhandle: Reddit profile API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/openhandle/free/llms.txt)
- [Openhandle: TikTok profile API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/openhandle/free/llms.txt)
- [Openhandle: TikTok video API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-video-apis/openhandle/free/llms.txt)
- [Openhandle: X post API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/openhandle/free/llms.txt)
- [Openhandle: X profile API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/openhandle/free/llms.txt)
- [Openhandle: video search API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/openhandle/free/llms.txt)
- [Openhandle: YouTube channel API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/openhandle/free/llms.txt)
- [Openhandle: YouTube channel video API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/openhandle/free/llms.txt)

## Openhandle: video search API alternatives

- [Stophy, top-up from $10](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/stophy/top-up-from-10/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [API.SH, top-up from $15, Pay-as-you-go, GET /bing/v1/videos](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/api-sh/top-up-from-15-pay-as-you-go-get-bing-v1-videos/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [Serply, $5 pack](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/serply/5-pack/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [FrameFetch, $1 pack](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/framefetch/1-pack/llms.txt): $2.00 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://api.openhandle.dev/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://openhandle.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://openhandle.dev/docs/api-reference/youtube-search-posts-list?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://openhandle.dev/docs/rate-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://openhandle.dev/legal/terms-of-service?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://openhandle.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing