# ShortsIntel, free: Video search API

> Keyword search across TikTok, Instagram and YouTube, one page per call.

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

## Charges

- 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

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Keyword search across TikTok, Instagram and YouTube, one page per call.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- 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

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 credits
- Enough for: about 333 pages, once
- Expires: 90 days

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Concurrent: 10
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call or by polling

## The call

- You send: query, platforms "youtube". Optional: region, window, sort, limit, cursor, intelligence, focus, include_off_focus, wait, max_credits, estimate
- Method: POST
- Path: /videos/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Starter Grant
- 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

## ShortsIntel's plans (5)

- [ShortsIntel, free](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/shortsintel/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [ShortsIntel, $10 pack](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/shortsintel/10-pack/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [ShortsIntel, $20 pack](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/shortsintel/20-pack/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [ShortsIntel, $50 pack](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/shortsintel/50-pack/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [ShortsIntel, $100 pack](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/shortsintel/100-pack/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 100% complete

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

- `POST /videos/search`: [ShortsIntel, free](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/shortsintel/free/llms.txt)

## ShortsIntel's APIs (11)

- [ShortsIntel: Facebook Ad Library API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/shortsintel/free/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: Facebook page API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-page-apis/shortsintel/free/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: Instagram profile API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/shortsintel/free/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: TikTok Ad Library API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-ad-apis/shortsintel/free/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: TikTok profile API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/shortsintel/free/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: video search API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/shortsintel/free/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: YouTube channel API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/shortsintel/free/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: Facebook post API pricing, 5 plans, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-post-apis/shortsintel/free-starter-grant-get-creators-platform-handle/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: Facebook post API pricing, 5 plans, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}/videos](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-post-apis/shortsintel/free-starter-grant-get-creators-platform-handle-videos/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: Instagram post API pricing, 5 plans, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/shortsintel/free-starter-grant-get-creators-platform-handle/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: Instagram post API pricing, 5 plans, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}/videos](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/shortsintel/free-starter-grant-get-creators-platform-handle-videos/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: TikTok video API pricing, 5 plans, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-video-apis/shortsintel/free-starter-grant-get-creators-platform-handle/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: TikTok video API pricing, 5 plans, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}/videos](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-video-apis/shortsintel/free-starter-grant-get-creators-platform-handle-videos/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: YouTube channel video API pricing, 5 plans, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/shortsintel/free-starter-grant-get-creators-platform-handle/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: YouTube channel video API pricing, 5 plans, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}/videos](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/shortsintel/free-starter-grant-get-creators-platform-handle-videos/llms.txt)

## ShortsIntel: video search API alternatives

- [Pullbay, $9 monthly, Hobby, GET /youtube/search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/pullbay/9-monthly-hobby-get-youtube-search/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [SearchApi, $3,000 monthly, Octo 1M, Enhanced speed, GET /api/v1/search?engine=bing_videos](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/searchapi/3000-monthly-octo-1m-enhanced-speed-get-api-v1-search-engine-bing-videos/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [ScrapeBadger, top-up from $10, PAYG, GET /v1/google/videos/search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/scrapebadger/top-up-from-10-payg-get-v1-google-videos-search/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [Froxy, $30 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/froxy/30-monthly/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 17% 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 2026-11-07.

- https://www.shortsintel.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://www.shortsintel.com/docs/concepts/authentication-and-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://www.shortsintel.com/docs/concepts/pricing-and-estimates?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://www.shortsintel.com/openapi.v1.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://www.shortsintel.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://www.shortsintel.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://www.shortsintel.com/youtube-shorts-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing