# TranscriptOut, free, GET /v1/search: Video search API

> Search YouTube for videos or channels, exactly as the site would rank them.

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

## Charges

- Repeat free: never
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Get a transcript · Get transcripts in bulk · Get video info · List channel videos · Search inside a channel · A channel's latest videos · List playlist videos · Search inside a playlist

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search YouTube for videos or channels, exactly as the site would rank them.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You agree not to: Use the service unlawfully, or to infringe anyone else’s rights. Work around rate limits or the credit system, by opening multiple accounts to multiply the free grant, for example. Resell or redistribute the API itself as a competing transcript API. Probe, overload or attempt to disrupt the service or the infrastructure behind it. Use the service to build a dataset whose distribution would infringe the rights of the video creators. [...] Transcripts, titles, thumbnails and every other field the API returns originate from YouTube and belong to their rights holders. We grant you no license in them, because we hold none to grant. You are responsible for making sure your use of that content complies with copyright law, with YouTube’s terms, and with any other rules that apply to you.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 credits
- Enough for: 100 calls, once

## Rate limit

- Per second: 3.33
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: type, limit, next_page_token
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone at least 16 years old

## The 20 fields the plan's answer can hold

video result ID, video result title, video result channel, video result channel ID, video result duration, video result view count text, video result published date, video result has captions, video result link, video result thumbnail, video result type, video result subscribers, video result description, video result channel verified, video result channel handle, search query, returned results count, next cursor, has more, total results

## TranscriptOut's plans (11)

- [TranscriptOut, free, GET /v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/transcriptout/free-get-v1-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [TranscriptOut, $4.49 monthly, 1,000 credits a month, GET /v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/transcriptout/4-49-monthly-1000-credits-a-month-get-v1-search/llms.txt): $4.49 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [TranscriptOut, $27.49 monthly, 10,000 credits a month, GET /v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/transcriptout/27-49-monthly-10000-credits-a-month-get-v1-search/llms.txt): $2.749 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [TranscriptOut, $54.99 monthly, 25,000 credits a month, GET /v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/transcriptout/54-99-monthly-25000-credits-a-month-get-v1-search/llms.txt): $2.20 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [TranscriptOut, $104.99 monthly, 50,000 credits a month, GET /v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/transcriptout/104-99-monthly-50000-credits-a-month-get-v1-search/llms.txt): $2.10 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [TranscriptOut, $198.99 monthly, 100,000 credits a month, GET /v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/transcriptout/198-99-monthly-100000-credits-a-month-get-v1-search/llms.txt): $1.99 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [TranscriptOut, $45.29 yearly, 1,000 credits a month, billed annually, GET /v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/transcriptout/45-29-yearly-1000-credits-a-month-billed-annually-get-v1-search/llms.txt): $3.774 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [TranscriptOut, $257.79 yearly, 10,000 credits a month, billed annually, GET /v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/transcriptout/257-79-yearly-10000-credits-a-month-billed-annually-get-v1-search/llms.txt): $2.148 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [TranscriptOut, $483.29 yearly, 25,000 credits a month, billed annually, GET /v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/transcriptout/483-29-yearly-25000-credits-a-month-billed-annually-get-v1-search/llms.txt): $1.611 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [TranscriptOut, $869.79 yearly, 50,000 credits a month, billed annually, GET /v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/transcriptout/869-79-yearly-50000-credits-a-month-billed-annually-get-v1-search/llms.txt): $1.45 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [TranscriptOut, $1,547.79 yearly, 100,000 credits a month, billed annually, GET /v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/transcriptout/1547-79-yearly-100000-credits-a-month-billed-annually-get-v1-search/llms.txt): $1.29 per 1,000, 100% complete

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

- `GET /v1/channel/search`: [TranscriptOut, free, GET /v1/channel/search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/transcriptout/free-get-v1-channel-search/llms.txt)
- `GET /v1/search`: [TranscriptOut, free, GET /v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/transcriptout/free-get-v1-search/llms.txt)

## TranscriptOut's APIs (2)

- [TranscriptOut: YouTube channel video API pricing, 11 plans, GET /v1/channel/latest](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/transcriptout/free-get-v1-channel-latest/llms.txt)
- [TranscriptOut: YouTube channel video API pricing, 11 plans, GET /v1/channel/videos](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/transcriptout/free-get-v1-channel-videos/llms.txt)
- [TranscriptOut: video search API pricing, 11 plans, GET /v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/transcriptout/free-get-v1-search/llms.txt)

## TranscriptOut: video search API alternatives

- [TranscriptFetch, $45 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/transcriptfetch/45-monthly/llms.txt): $1.286 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [Anysite, $549 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/anysite/549-monthly/llms.txt): $1.292 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [Froxy, $500 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/froxy/500-monthly/llms.txt): $1.316 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [AnyCrawler, $200 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/anycrawler/200-monthly/llms.txt): $1.333 per 1,000, 33% complete

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