# ScrapeUnblocker, free: Video search API

> Searches YouTube for query and returns the results as JSON. For each video: videoId, title, url, channel (name/id/url), publishedText, viewCount (+ text), lengthSeconds (+ text), thumbnails, descriptionSnippet, badges, verified and isLive.

ScrapeUnblocker's video search API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 5 of the 6 key fields we check: Length, 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/scrapeunblocker/free
- [Best video search API in 2026: providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-video-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://scrapeunblocker.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.scrapeunblocker.com/content/youtube-search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://scrapeunblocker.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.scrapeunblocker.com/api-reference/plugins/search-youtube?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: ScrapeUnblocker (https://scrapeunblocker.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-10-31

## In the answer

- Completeness: 83%
- Length: ✓
- Channel: ✓
- Views: ✓
- Snippet: ✓
- Thumbnail: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Most per search: 500
- Also pays for: from the same budget: 99 other calls

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Searches YouTube for query and returns the results as JSON. For each video: videoId, title, url, channel (name/id/url), publishedText, viewCount (+ text), lengthSeconds (+ text), thumbnails, descriptionSnippet, badges, verified and isLive.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: "You may use the Services strictly in accordance with these Terms and for lawful purposes only." "You are solely responsible for how you use the data extracted via our Services." "You agree not to: Use the Services to scrape, extract, or collect data in violation of applicable laws or third-party rights (e.g., intellectual property rights). [...] Use the Services in a way that violates any website's Terms of Service or robots.txt directives." "You must use the Services lawfully and only to collect publicly available web content that you have a legitimate basis to access." "You must not use the Services, or allow anyone using your keys to use them, to: [...] Collect personal data without a lawful basis under applicable data-protection law, or unlawfully collect special categories of personal data. Infringe the intellectual-property, privacy, contractual, or other rights of any third party. [...] Resell, sublicense, or provide the Services to third parties except under a written agreement with us [...]"

## Plan

- Pay: €0
- You get: 500 requests
- Enough for: 500 calls, once

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 1.98 s

## The call

- You send: query. Optional: max_results, type, sort, proxy_country
- Method: POST
- Path: /content/youtube-search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone at least 18 years old or of the age of majority, with the legal capacity to enter into the Terms (its Terms' "Are at least 18 years old or the age of majority in your jurisdiction. Have the legal capacity and authority to enter into these Terms.")

## The 18 fields the plan's answer can hold

query, video result type, video result ID, video result title, video result link, video result channel, video result channel ID, video result channel URL, video result published time, video result view count, video result formatted duration, video result duration seconds, video result thumbnail, video result snippet, video result channel verified, video result is live, returned results count, total results

## ScrapeUnblocker's plans (8)

- [ScrapeUnblocker, free](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/scrapeunblocker/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [ScrapeUnblocker, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/scrapeunblocker/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $1.125 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [ScrapeUnblocker, €29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/scrapeunblocker/29-monthly/llms.txt): $0.96 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [ScrapeUnblocker, €99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/scrapeunblocker/99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.844 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [ScrapeUnblocker, €299 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/scrapeunblocker/299-monthly/llms.txt): $0.765 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [ScrapeUnblocker, €599 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/scrapeunblocker/599-monthly/llms.txt): $0.698 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [ScrapeUnblocker, €1,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/scrapeunblocker/1000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.619 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [ScrapeUnblocker, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/scrapeunblocker/contact-us/llms.txt): 83% complete, live

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

- `POST /content/youtube-search`: [ScrapeUnblocker, free](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/scrapeunblocker/free/llms.txt)

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## ScrapeUnblocker: video search API alternatives

- [SerpKite, $300 pack, Pro, POST /v1/videos, Google Videos](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/serpkite/300-pack-pro-post-v1-videos-google-videos/llms.txt): $0.60 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
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## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-31.

- https://docs.scrapeunblocker.com/api-reference/plugins/search-youtube?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
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