# ScriptHaul, free: Video search API

> Find videos, channels and playlists without knowing a URL. Video results show what is already cached.

ScriptHaul's Free plan for the video search API costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. We check each provider's docs for 6 fields. ScriptHaul's docs list 4: Length, Channel, Views, Thumbnail.
We haven't run ScriptHaul through [our video search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-video-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 677 plans for video search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.20 or less per 1,000 searches. [See the best free video search API plan.](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. [SerpBase's $3 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/serpbase/3-monthly/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: $3.00.
[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), [TranscriptYT](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/transcriptyt/3-monthly/llms.txt) and [SerpScraper.dev](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/serpscraper-dev/79-monthly/llms.txt) are the best video search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/scripthaul/free
- [Video search API in 2026: the best of 40+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-video-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://api.scripthaul.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.scripthaul.com/v1/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://api.scripthaul.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://api.scripthaul.com/docs/search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: ScriptHaul (https://scripthaul.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## In the answer

- Completeness: 67%
- Length: ✓
- Channel: ✓
- Views: ✓
- Thumbnail: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $0.00
- Per: page, size not stated
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Repeat free: 1 minute
- Also pays for: Resolve a channel · See the latest uploads · List a channel or playlist · Read known video facts · Check library coverage · Search transcript passages · from the same budget: Fetch one transcript · Create a durable bulk job

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Find videos, channels and playlists without knowing a URL. Video results show what is already cached.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Published limits protect shared relay, cache, and YouTube Data API capacity. Do not create accounts or keys to evade them, split one customer’s traffic to disguise its source, or bypass throttles. Use the API only for public videos and public caption tracks. Do not use it for private, members-only, or age-gated material, probe for restricted material, scrape ScriptHaul outside documented API routes, interfere with protective controls, or resell raw API access without disclosing the arrangement to us and your own customers. [...] ScriptHaul does not give you a licence to the video, audio, captions, transcript, title, thumbnail, or other source material. You are responsible for determining whether commercial use, storage, or redistribution of a transcript is permitted.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 credits a month
- Enough for: 100 pages a month
- Expires: resets to 100 on the first of each UTC month and does not accumulate

## Rate limit

- Per day: 50
- Per second: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: type, channel, continuation
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone who can form a binding agreement, a minor needs permission from a parent or legal guardian

## The 13 fields the plan's answer can hold

video result type, video result ID, video result title, video result channel ID, video result channel title, video result duration seconds, video result view count, video result published time, video result has captions, video result thumbnail, video result playlist ID, has more, next cursor

## ScriptHaul's plans (7)

- [ScriptHaul, free](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/scripthaul/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [ScriptHaul, $5 pack](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/scripthaul/5-pack/llms.txt): $1.667 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [ScriptHaul, $20 pack](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/scripthaul/20-pack/llms.txt): $1.429 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [ScriptHaul, $50 pack](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/scripthaul/50-pack/llms.txt): $1.25 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [ScriptHaul, $200 pack](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/scripthaul/200-pack/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [ScriptHaul, $1,000 pack](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/scripthaul/1000-pack/llms.txt): $0.80 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [ScriptHaul, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/scripthaul/contact-us/llms.txt): 67% complete, live

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

- `GET /v1/search`: [ScriptHaul, free](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/scripthaul/free/llms.txt)

## ScriptHaul's APIs (2)

- [ScriptHaul: video search API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/scripthaul/free/llms.txt)
- [ScriptHaul: YouTube channel video API pricing, 7 plans, GET /v1/videos](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/scripthaul/free-get-v1-videos/llms.txt)
- [ScriptHaul: YouTube channel video API pricing, 7 plans, GET /v1/channels/latest](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/scripthaul/free-get-v1-channels-latest/llms.txt)

## ScriptHaul: video search API alternatives

- [Scale SERP, $47,988 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/scale-serp/47988-yearly/llms.txt): $0.80 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [SerpKite, $50 pack, Growth, POST /v1/videos, Bing Videos](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/serpkite/50-pack-growth-post-v1-videos-bing-videos/llms.txt): $0.80 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [Zenserp, $4,799.88 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/zenserp/4799-88-yearly/llms.txt): $0.80 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [GeoRanker, $960 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/georanker/960-yearly/llms.txt): $0.80 per 1,000, 0% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-10.

- https://api.scripthaul.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://api.scripthaul.com/docs/credits-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://api.scripthaul.com/docs/search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://api.scripthaul.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://api.scripthaul.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://api.scripthaul.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing