YouTube Search Tool
A YouTube search tool is a tool that shows the live YouTube search results for a query as structured data, including each video's channel, view count and duration.
5 free checks per day per visitor. Identical requests are cached for 24 hours.
Results are live snapshots from a search data source, not scraped from your browser.
How to use the YouTube Search Tool
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Enter a query. Type the search you want to run on YouTube.
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Choose a country. Pick the market to request results for.
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Run the search. Press Search YouTube to load up to 20 video results.
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Review or export. Read the table of videos and channels, or open the JSON view to copy the structured data.
What you can learn from YouTube results
Seeing which videos rank for a query shows what formats, lengths and channels YouTube currently prefers for a topic. That is useful for planning videos and for judging how competitive a query is.
Fields such as view counts and publish time are reported as YouTube displays them at the moment of the request, so they are snapshots and some may be missing for certain videos.
Frequently asked questions
Where do the results come from?
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From the official YouTube Data API search endpoint, using its free daily quota. Its ranking can differ slightly from what you see on youtube.com, which also personalises results by account, history and location.
How many results are shown?
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Up to 20 videos for each query. Channels, playlists and other blocks that may appear in YouTube results are not listed, only videos.
Why might some fields be empty?
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YouTube does not show every field for every result. Live streams, Shorts and some videos can lack a duration, view count or publish time, so those cells may be blank.
Can I get a transcript for a video?
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Not in this tool. It lists search results only. Transcripts are a separate feature that depends on the video's captions.
Related tools
Pull YouTube results for many queries through the SerpAPIs API.