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

> Search videos within a specific channel.

YouTubeTranscriptAPI's Free plan for the video search API costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. We check each provider's docs for 6 fields. YouTubeTranscriptAPI's docs list 3: Channel, Views, Thumbnail.
We haven't run YouTubeTranscriptAPI 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/youtubetranscriptapi/free-get-youtube-channel-search
- [Best YouTube search API: video search providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-video-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://youtubetranscriptapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://youtubetranscriptapi.com/api/v2/youtube/channel/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://youtubetranscriptapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://youtubetranscriptapi.com/docs/api/channel?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing#search-videos-inside-a-channel
- Sold by: YouTubeTranscriptAPI (https://youtubetranscriptapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## In the answer

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

## Price

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

## Charges

- Most per search: 50
- Also pays for: Track New Uploads · Resolve Channel Handle · from the same budget: Get Transcripts · Search YouTube · Browse Channel Videos · Extract Playlist Videos

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

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

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search videos within a specific channel.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You will not use the service to violate YouTube's Terms of Service. You will not redistribute transcripts or metadata in ways that infringe copyright. You will not attempt to circumvent rate limits, billing, or authentication. You will not resell raw API access. Build a product on top of it.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 credits
- Enough for: 100 calls, once
- Expires: never

## Rate limit

- Per second: 5
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

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

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 13 fields the plan's answer can hold

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

## YouTubeTranscriptAPI's plans (3)

- [YouTubeTranscriptAPI, free, GET /youtube/channel/search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/youtubetranscriptapi/free-get-youtube-channel-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [YouTubeTranscriptAPI, $7 monthly, Monthly, GET /youtube/channel/search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/youtubetranscriptapi/7-monthly-monthly-get-youtube-channel-search/llms.txt): $7.00 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [YouTubeTranscriptAPI, $60 yearly, Annual, GET /youtube/channel/search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/youtubetranscriptapi/60-yearly-annual-get-youtube-channel-search/llms.txt): $4.00 per 1,000, 50% complete

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

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

## YouTubeTranscriptAPI's APIs (2)

- [YouTubeTranscriptAPI YouTube channel video API pricing, 3 plans, GET /youtube/channel/videos](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/youtubetranscriptapi/free-get-youtube-channel-videos/llms.txt)
- [YouTubeTranscriptAPI YouTube channel video API pricing, 3 plans, GET /youtube/channel/latest](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/youtubetranscriptapi/free-get-youtube-channel-latest/llms.txt)
- [YouTubeTranscriptAPI Video search API pricing, 3 plans, GET /youtube/channel/search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/youtubetranscriptapi/free-get-youtube-channel-search/llms.txt)

## YouTubeTranscriptAPI: video search API alternatives

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

We list YouTubeTranscriptAPI's cheapest paid plan first. Next we list other providers' plans closest to YouTubeTranscriptAPI in price per 1,000 searches.

- [YouTubeTranscriptAPI, $60 yearly, Annual, GET /youtube/channel/search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/youtubetranscriptapi/60-yearly-annual-get-youtube-channel-search/llms.txt): $4.00 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [Pullbay, $199 monthly, Scale, GET /duckduckgo/videos](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/pullbay/199-monthly-scale-get-duckduckgo-videos/llms.txt): $4.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [SearchApi, $40 monthly, Developer Plan, GET /api/v1/search?engine=bing_videos](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/searchapi/40-monthly-developer-plan-get-api-v1-search-engine-bing-videos/llms.txt): $4.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [KonbiniAPI, $20 pack](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/konbiniapi/20-pack/llms.txt): $4.00 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [Froxy, $20 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/froxy/20-monthly/llms.txt): $4.00 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 2026-11-10.

- https://youtubetranscriptapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://youtubetranscriptapi.com/docs/api/channel.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://youtubetranscriptapi.com/docs/rate-limits.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://youtubetranscriptapi.com/legal/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://youtubetranscriptapi.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing
- https://youtubetranscriptapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video-search-api-pricing