# TranscriptYT, free: Video search API

> Find videos across YouTube, or inside one channel, with views, duration, and upload date.

TranscriptYT's video search API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. TranscriptYT's docs list 3 of the 6 fields on our checklist: Length, Channel, Views.
In [our video search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-video-search-api.txt), the best plan from TranscriptYT scores 84.6 out of 100. TranscriptYT ranks 3rd of 36 providers.
This plan is free. We rank 610 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/transcriptyt/free
- [Video search API: the best of 30+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-video-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://transcript-yt.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://transcript-yt.com/v1/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://transcript-yt.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://transcript-yt.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing#search
- Sold by: TranscriptYT (https://transcript-yt.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

- Completeness: 50%
- Length: ✓
- Channel: ✓
- Views: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Most per search: 100
- Also pays for: List a video's caption tracks · from the same budget: Get a YouTube video transcript · Get transcripts for many videos in one call · Summarize a YouTube video · List the videos in a playlist or channel

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Find videos across YouTube, or inside one channel, with views, duration, and upload date.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Do not use the Service to circumvent access restrictions, violate third-party rights, harm source infrastructure, or offer raw access to the Service for resale.

## Plan

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

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.17
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 1.46 s

## The call

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

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone at least 18 years old, or of the age of majority where they live, and able to enter into a binding contract

## The 10 fields the plan's answer can hold

search query, searched channel ID, video result ID, video result title, video result channel title, video result channel ID, video result duration seconds, video result view count, video result published time, has more

## TranscriptYT's plans (7)

- [TranscriptYT, free](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/transcriptyt/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [TranscriptYT, $45 pack](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/transcriptyt/45-pack/llms.txt): no limit, 50% complete
- [TranscriptYT, $3 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/transcriptyt/3-monthly/llms.txt): $0.00035 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [TranscriptYT, $9 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/transcriptyt/9-monthly/llms.txt): $0.001 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [TranscriptYT, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/transcriptyt/29-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0034 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [TranscriptYT, $79 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/transcriptyt/79-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0091 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [TranscriptYT, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/transcriptyt/contact-us/llms.txt): 50% complete

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

- `GET /v1/search`: [TranscriptYT, free](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/transcriptyt/free/llms.txt)

## TranscriptYT's APIs (2)

- [TranscriptYT: video search API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/transcriptyt/free/llms.txt)
- [TranscriptYT: YouTube channel video API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/transcriptyt/free/llms.txt)

## TranscriptYT: video search API alternatives

- [SerpScraper.dev, $4,992 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/serpscraper-dev/4992-yearly/llms.txt): $0.028 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [SerpData, $900 pack](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/serpdata/900-pack/llms.txt): $0.03 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [Serpent API, top-up from $500, Scale, GET /api/videos, Bing Video Search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/serpent-api/top-up-from-500-scale-get-api-videos-bing-video-search/llms.txt): $0.07 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Parseium, $299 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/parseium/299-monthly/llms.txt): $0.10 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 2026-11-07.

- https://transcript-yt.com/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://transcript-yt.com/contact?topic=Enterprise+pricing&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://transcript-yt.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://transcript-yt.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://transcript-yt.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://transcript-yt.com/privacy?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://transcript-yt.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing