# BuzzSearch, free: YouTube channel video API

> Paste a video, a Short, or a channel. Get the comment section back as JSON, every comment linked to its spot under the video.

BuzzSearch's YouTube channel video API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 videos. BuzzSearch's docs list 4 of the 6 key fields we check: Text, Engagement, Analytics, Author.
We haven't run BuzzSearch through [our YouTube channel video API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-youtube-channel-video-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 184 plans for YouTube channel video APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.052 per 1,000 videos or less.
[TranscriptAPI's $5 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/transcriptapi/5-monthly-monthly-get-youtube-channel-latest/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 videos. TranscriptAPI's $5 monthly plan charges nothing per call. You get as many videos as TranscriptAPI's rate limit allows.
[TubeLab's $39 monthly plan (/channel/shorts/{id})](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/tubelab/39-monthly-pro-get-channel-shorts-id/llms.txt) covers any number of videos. TubeLab's $39 monthly plan costs more up front than TranscriptAPI's $5 monthly plan.
[YouTube Data API (Google)](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/youtube-data-api-google/free-default-quota-get-youtube-v3-search/llms.txt), [Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/scrappa/25-pack/llms.txt) and [lobstr.io](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/lobstr-io/500-monthly/llms.txt) are the best YouTube channel video API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/buzzsearch/free
- [YouTube channel video API: the 13 best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-youtube-channel-video-api.txt)
- Get it: https://buzzsearch.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://buzzsearch.ai/api/v1/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://buzzsearch.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://buzzsearch.ai/tools/youtube-comment-scraper?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing
- Sold by: BuzzSearch (https://buzzsearch.ai?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-06

## In the answer

- Completeness: 67%
- Text: ✓
- Engagement: ✓
- Analytics: ✓
- Author: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 videos: $0.00
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: ask · generate_hooks

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Paste a video, a Short, or a channel. Get the comment section back as JSON, every comment linked to its spot under the video.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You may use the reports, answers, and other outputs generated for you for your own business purposes, including writing ads and marketing copy. Quotes and comments surfaced by the service come from third-party public sources and remain subject to the rights of their original authors and platforms. [...] You agree not to: Use the service for any unlawful purpose, Attempt to gain unauthorized access to any part of the service or related systems, Reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to derive source code from the service, Interfere with or disrupt the service or its infrastructure, Scrape, copy, or redistribute data or output from the service in bulk, Resell or redistribute the service without our written consent, Use automated tools to access the service beyond normal usage patterns or the documented API, Use the service to harass, target, or identify individual people

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 credits

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: by polling

## The call

- You send: query. Optional: depth
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/v1/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 8 fields the plan's answer can hold

title, video URL, view count, channel name, comment count, comments, credits consumed, status

## BuzzSearch's plans (4)

- [BuzzSearch, free](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/buzzsearch/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [BuzzSearch, $30 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/buzzsearch/30-monthly/llms.txt): 67% complete, live
- [BuzzSearch, $100 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/buzzsearch/100-monthly/llms.txt): 67% complete, live
- [BuzzSearch, $200 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/buzzsearch/200-monthly/llms.txt): 67% complete, live

## BuzzSearch's calls (1)

- `POST /api/v1/search`: [BuzzSearch, free](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/buzzsearch/free/llms.txt)

## BuzzSearch's APIs (3)

- [BuzzSearch: Reddit post API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/buzzsearch/free/llms.txt)
- [BuzzSearch: TikTok video API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-video-apis/buzzsearch/free/llms.txt)
- [BuzzSearch: YouTube channel video API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/buzzsearch/free/llms.txt)

## BuzzSearch: YouTube channel video API alternatives

- [YouTube Data API (Google), free, Default quota, GET /youtube/v3/playlistItems](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/youtube-data-api-google/free-default-quota-get-youtube-v3-playlistitems/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [lobstr.io, free, POST /v1/runs, YouTube Search Scraper](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/lobstr-io/free-post-v1-runs-youtube-search-scraper/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [Captapi, free](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/captapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Bright Data, free](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/bright-data/free/llms.txt): $0.00 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 2026-11-06.

- https://buzzsearch.ai?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing
- https://buzzsearch.ai/mcp?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing
- https://buzzsearch.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing
- https://buzzsearch.ai/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing
- https://buzzsearch.ai/tools/youtube-comment-scraper?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing