# TranscriptAPI, free, GET /youtube/channel/search: Video search API

> Search within a specific channel to find videos on any topic. Great for researching a creator's content or finding niche topics in large channels.

TranscriptAPI's video search API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. TranscriptAPI's docs list 4 of the 6 key fields we check: Length, Channel, Views, Thumbnail.
We haven't run TranscriptAPI through [our video search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-video-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 502 plans for video search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.00 per 1,000 searches or less.
[Vimeo's $20 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/vimeo/20-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches. Vimeo's $20 monthly plan charges nothing per call. You get as many searches as Vimeo's rate limit allows.
[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 [Crawlora](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/crawlora/499-monthly-enterprise-get-brave-videos/llms.txt) are the best video search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/transcriptapi/free-get-youtube-channel-search
- [Video search API: the best of 20+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-video-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://transcriptapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://transcriptapi.com/api/v2/youtube/channel/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://transcriptapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://transcriptapi.com/docs/api/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing#search-within-channel
- Sold by: TranscriptAPI (https://transcriptapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-06

## In the answer

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

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $0.00
- Per: page of 30
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: YouTube Transcript · Video Metadata · Search Endpoint · Channel Videos (Paginated) · Channel Info · Channel Playlists · Channel Posts · Channel Sections · Playlist Endpoint

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search within a specific channel to find videos on any topic. Great for researching a creator's content or finding niche topics in large channels.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You agree NOT to: Violate any laws, regulations, or third-party rights, Use the Service for any illegal or unauthorized purpose, Attempt to reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Service, Overload or interfere with the Service infrastructure, Use automated tools to abuse, spam, or overload the Service, Resell or redistribute the Service without explicit written permission, Access data or systems without authorization, Use the Service to collect personal information without consent, Transmit viruses, malware, or other malicious code, Impersonate others or misrepresent your affiliation [...] transcript data is sourced from YouTube and subject to YouTube's terms and applicable copyright laws [...] You may use transcripts in your own commercial product, subject to YouTube's terms.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 credits
- Enough for: 100 pages, once
- Expires: 90 days

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: one of channel and q, or continuation
- Method: GET
- Path: /youtube/channel/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone at least 18 years old

## The 15 fields the plan's answer can hold

video result ID, video result title, video result channel ID, video result channel, video result channel handle, video result channel verified, video result duration, video result view count text, video result published time, video result thumbnail, video result type, video result has captions, returned results count, next cursor, has more

## TranscriptAPI's plans (5)

- [TranscriptAPI, free, GET /youtube/channel/search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/transcriptapi/free-get-youtube-channel-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [TranscriptAPI, $5 monthly, Monthly, GET /youtube/channel/search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/transcriptapi/5-monthly-monthly-get-youtube-channel-search/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [TranscriptAPI, $10 yearly, Special Low Usage Plan, GET /youtube/channel/search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/transcriptapi/10-yearly-special-low-usage-plan-get-youtube-channel-search/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [TranscriptAPI, $54 yearly, Annual, GET /youtube/channel/search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/transcriptapi/54-yearly-annual-get-youtube-channel-search/llms.txt): $4.50 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [TranscriptAPI, contact us, Custom plan, GET /youtube/channel/search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/transcriptapi/contact-us-custom-plan-get-youtube-channel-search/llms.txt): 67% complete

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

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

## TranscriptAPI's APIs (3)

- [TranscriptAPI: YouTube channel API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/transcriptapi/free/llms.txt)
- [TranscriptAPI: YouTube channel video API pricing, 5 plans, GET /youtube/channel/latest](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/transcriptapi/free-get-youtube-channel-latest/llms.txt)
- [TranscriptAPI: YouTube channel video API pricing, 5 plans, GET /youtube/channel/videos](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/transcriptapi/free-get-youtube-channel-videos/llms.txt)
- [TranscriptAPI: video search API pricing, 5 plans, GET /youtube/channel/search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/transcriptapi/free-get-youtube-channel-search/llms.txt)

## TranscriptAPI: video search API alternatives

- [Anspire, top-up, Standard Search, domestic, region_mode 0, Pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/anspire/top-up-standard-search-domestic-region-mode-0-pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $4.487 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Pullbay, $49 monthly, Builder, GET /duckduckgo/videos](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/pullbay/49-monthly-builder-get-duckduckgo-videos/llms.txt): $4.50 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Search1API, $19 monthly, Basic, POST /search, Search, full](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/search1api/19-monthly-basic-post-search-search-full/llms.txt): $4.56 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [SerpWow, $1,200 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/serpwow/1200-monthly/llms.txt): $4.80 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 2026-11-06.

- https://transcriptapi.com/docs/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://transcriptapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://transcriptapi.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing