ShortsIntel pricing: video search API
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$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run ShortsIntel through our video search API benchmark 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.TranscriptYT's $3 monthly plan 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 covers any number of searches. TranscriptYT's $45 pack costs more up front than TranscriptYT's $3 monthly plan.Scrappa, SerpScraper.dev and TranscriptYT are the best video search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: Starter Grant one of ShortsIntel's 5 plans
- FreeStarter Grant$0.00 per 1,000
- $10 packTop-up $10$3.00 per 1,000
- $20 packTop-up $20$3.00 per 1,000
- $50 packTop-up $50$3.00 per 1,000
- $100 packTop-up $100$3.00 per 1,000
Call:
POST / ShortsIntel's only call for this APIAPI: Video search API one of ShortsIntel's 11 APIs
- Facebook Ad Library API
- Facebook page API
- Instagram profile API
- TikTok Ad Library API
- TikTok profile API
- Video search API
- YouTube channel API
- Facebook post API
GET /creators/ {platform}/ {handle} - Facebook post API
GET /creators/ {platform}/ {handle}/ videos - Instagram post API
GET /creators/ {platform}/ {handle} - Instagram post API
GET /creators/ {platform}/ {handle}/ videos - TikTok video API
GET /creators/ {platform}/ {handle} - TikTok video API
GET /creators/ {platform}/ {handle}/ videos - YouTube channel video API
GET /creators/ {platform}/ {handle} - YouTube channel video API
GET /creators/ {platform}/ {handle}/ videos
About this item
- Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
- All 6 fields on our checklist. Length, Date, Channel, Views, Snippet, Thumbnail.
- Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits once, enough for about 333 pages. Calls stop once your credits run out. Unused credits expire after 90 days.
- One call. You send
querytoPOST /. You setvideos/ search platformsto "youtube". The call returns the answer when the provider is quick. When the provider is slow, the call returns a job. You fetch the answer once the job is done. - Who can get it: anyone who signs up. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
ShortsIntel: video search API alternatives
ShortsIntel alternatives: other video search API providers by price
The table starts with ShortsIntel's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to ShortsIntel's.
| ShortsIntel, $10 pack | Pullbay, $9 monthly, Hobby, GET /youtube/search | SearchApi, $3,000 monthly, Octo 1M, Enhanced speed, GET /api/v1/search?engine=bing_videos | ScrapeBadger, top-up from $10, PAYG, GET /v1/google/videos/search | Froxy, $30 monthly | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 searches | $3.00 | $3.00 | $3.00 | $3.00 | $3.00 |
| Completeness | 100% | 100% | 100% | 50% | 17% |
| Billing | pay first | monthly | monthly | pay first | monthly |
| Pay | $10 | $9 | $3,000 | $10 | $30 |
| Enough for | about 3,333 pages | 3,000 calls a month | 1,000,000 calls a month | as many as you pay for | 10,000 calls a month |
| Freshness | unknown | live | live | unknown | live |
| Who can get it | anyone who signs up | anyone | anyone | anyone 18 or over | 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 2026-11-07.
Product details
The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.
- Length
- Date
- Channel
- Views
- Snippet
- Thumbnail
| $ per 1,000 searches | $0.00 |
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| Per | page of 30 |
| Billing | free |
| Also pays for | from the same budget: Research a niche · Refresh a research's videos · Run a Creator Breakdown · Look up a video by URL · Look up a video by id · Analyse a video · Score a video against its creator · Read a video's comments · Read a comment's replies · Look up a creator and baseline · Page a creator's stored videos · Look up a hashtag's trend · Page a hashtag's videos · Look up a sound's trend · Page a sound's videos · Sample a keyword search · Search ad libraries · Look up a Meta Ad by id · Get a TikTok Ad · Look up an advertiser profile · Start tracking a target · Run a tracker cycle now · Set or clear a tracker's focus · Preview a focus on a tracker |
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| Units cap | hard |
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| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | Keyword search across TikTok, Instagram and YouTube, one page per call. |
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| Keep data | no limit |
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| Use data | Derived works are permitted. You may analyse, transform, combine and build on the API output, and you may distribute and commercialise the results [...] Reselling the raw data is not permitted. You may not: resell, sublicense, redistribute or otherwise make available the raw records or bulk API output as a data product, feed, export or dataset, whether for a fee or free of charge, republish raw records in bulk, or mirror, replicate or reconstruct the ShortsIntel corpus or any substantial part of it, including by systematic enumeration of the API, use the API or its output to build, train or operate a substitute for the Service, or a competing short-form video data service, use the output to identify, target, profile, score or make decisions about individual people, including creators and commenters, or to enable anyone else to do so, remove, obscure or misrepresent the provenance of data obtained through the Service where you are permitted to display it. Upstream restrictions pass through. [...] Where those providers or platforms impose restrictions on the use, retention or redistribution of that data, those restrictions apply to you as well |
| Pay | $0 |
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| You get | 1,000 credits |
| Enough for | about 333 pages, once |
| Expires | 90 days |
| Per second | 1 |
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| Concurrent | 10 |
| Batch | 1 |
| Answer | in the call or by polling |
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| You send | query, platforms "youtube". Optional: region, window, sort, limit, cursor, intelligence, focus, include_off_focus, wait, max_credits, estimate |
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| Method | POST |
| Path | /videos/search |
| Plan | Starter Grant |
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| Who can get it | anyone who signs up |
The 21 fields the plan's answer can hold
video result position, video result link, video result title, video result snippet, video result thumbnail, video result duration, video result published date, video result channel, video result channel URL, video result ID, video result view count, video result like count, video result comment count, video result channel handle, video result channel verified, video result channel ID, video result description, video result duration seconds, video result uploaded at, video result language, next cursor