# TranscriptAPI.io, free, Hobby, GET /channel/search: Video search API

> Search for videos within a specific channel. Great for finding topics inside large content libraries without scanning the whole platform.

TranscriptAPI.io's Hobby plan for the video search API costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. We check each provider's docs for 6 fields. TranscriptAPI.io's docs list 2: Channel, Views.
We haven't run TranscriptAPI.io through [our video search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-video-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 711 plans for video search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.316 or less per 1,000 searches. [185 video search API plans on our price sheet are free.](https://datacircle.dev/best-video-search-api.txt) [Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/scrappa/free/llms.txt) has a free plan with 500 calls a month. Scrappa is the best video search API in our benchmark.
[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, with no charge 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, and 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/transcriptapi-io/free-hobby-get-channel-search
- [Best YouTube search API: video search providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-video-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://transcriptapi.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.transcriptapi.io/channel/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://transcriptapi.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://transcriptapi.io/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: TranscriptAPI.io (https://transcriptapi.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## In the answer

- Completeness: 33%
- Channel: ✓
- Views: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Repeat free: 1 hour
- Most per search: 50
- Also pays for: Subscribe · Unsubscribe · from the same budget: Get Transcript · Search · Channel Videos · Get Playlist

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

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

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search for videos within a specific channel. Great for finding topics inside large content libraries without scanning the whole platform.

## Data

- Freshness: 1 hour
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You may use the Service for any lawful purpose. You agree not to: Resell or redistribute raw API access as a competing product, Attempt to bypass rate limits or abuse the free tier, Use the Service to generate or distribute illegal content

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 20 credits
- Enough for: 20 calls

## Rate limit

- Concurrent: no limit
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: channel_id, q. Optional: limit
- Method: GET
- Path: /channel/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Hobby
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 7 fields the plan's answer can hold

searched channel ID, search query, video result ID, video result title, video result channel, video result view count text, video result formatted duration

## TranscriptAPI.io's plans (7)

- [TranscriptAPI.io, free, Hobby, GET /channel/search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/transcriptapi-io/free-hobby-get-channel-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, 1 hour
- [TranscriptAPI.io, $10 pack, 2,500 credits, GET /channel/search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/transcriptapi-io/10-pack-2500-credits-get-channel-search/llms.txt): $4.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, 1 hour
- [TranscriptAPI.io, $39 pack, 10,000 credits, GET /channel/search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/transcriptapi-io/39-pack-10000-credits-get-channel-search/llms.txt): $3.90 per 1,000, 33% complete, 1 hour
- [TranscriptAPI.io, $149 pack, 50,000 credits, GET /channel/search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/transcriptapi-io/149-pack-50000-credits-get-channel-search/llms.txt): $2.98 per 1,000, 33% complete, 1 hour
- [TranscriptAPI.io, $449 pack, 200,000 credits, GET /channel/search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/transcriptapi-io/449-pack-200000-credits-get-channel-search/llms.txt): $2.245 per 1,000, 33% complete, 1 hour
- [TranscriptAPI.io, $49 monthly, Production, GET /channel/search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/transcriptapi-io/49-monthly-production-get-channel-search/llms.txt): $1.96 per 1,000, 33% complete, 1 hour
- [TranscriptAPI.io, $249 monthly, Enterprise, GET /channel/search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/transcriptapi-io/249-monthly-enterprise-get-channel-search/llms.txt): $0.249 per 1,000, 33% complete, 1 hour

## TranscriptAPI.io's calls for this API (2)

- `GET /channel/search`: [TranscriptAPI.io, free, Hobby, GET /channel/search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/transcriptapi-io/free-hobby-get-channel-search/llms.txt)
- `GET /search`: [TranscriptAPI.io, free, Hobby, GET /search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/transcriptapi-io/free-hobby-get-search/llms.txt)

## TranscriptAPI.io's APIs (2)

- [TranscriptAPI.io YouTube channel video API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/transcriptapi-io/free/llms.txt)
- [TranscriptAPI.io Video search API pricing, 7 plans, GET /channel/search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/transcriptapi-io/free-hobby-get-channel-search/llms.txt)

## TranscriptAPI.io: video search API alternatives

[TranscriptAPI.io alternatives: other video search API providers by price](https://datacircle.dev/transcriptapi-io-alternatives.txt)

We list TranscriptAPI.io's cheapest paid plan first. Next we list other providers' plans closest to TranscriptAPI.io in price per 1,000 searches. Each plan in the list gives live data or data at most an hour old.

- [TranscriptAPI.io, $249 monthly, Enterprise, GET /channel/search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/transcriptapi-io/249-monthly-enterprise-get-channel-search/llms.txt): $0.249 per 1,000, 33% complete, 1 hour
- [FlashData, $999 monthly, Scale, POST /v1/queries/realtime, YouTube Search API (Realtime)](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/flashdata/999-monthly-scale-post-v1-queries-realtime-youtube-search-api-realtime/llms.txt): $0.25 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [PrismCrawl, $25 pack, Starter, POST /v1/yandex/videos/search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/prismcrawl/25-pack-starter-post-v1-yandex-videos-search/llms.txt): $0.25 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [SerpBase, $100 monthly, Pro Monthly, POST /google/videos/search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/serpbase/100-monthly/llms.txt): $0.25 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [Algrow, $45 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/algrow/45-monthly/llms.txt): $0.25 per 1,000, 83% 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.transcriptapi.io/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://transcriptapi.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://transcriptapi.io/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://transcriptapi.io/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://transcriptapi.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://transcriptapi.io/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing