YouTube data API

Search videos, channels, and playlists; fetch video details, comments, shorts, live streams, and trending. No account, no OAuth — pay per call with x402 or spend a prepaid credit balance with one API key.

15 endpoints$0.005 per callGET · JSON envelopeUSDC on Base mainnet

quick start

Call YouTube in 30 seconds

curl — with a credits API key

curl -H 'Authorization: Bearer bby_live_...' \
  'https://fetcher.sh/api/youtube/search/video?query=lofi'

curl — no key: the x402 challenge

# call without payment to inspect the 402 challenge
curl -i 'https://fetcher.sh/api/youtube/search/video?query=lofi'
# HTTP/1.1 402 Payment Required
# payment-required: <base64 payment requirements>

No key yet? Top up once (minimum $1) and the first response contains your bby_live_ key — see credits.

reference

All 15 YouTube endpoints

Click any endpoint to open its console: fill the parameters and try it live — the payable URL opens in a new tab, ready for a browser wallet.

Top up once — then hammer all 15 endpoints with one key

One x402 payment funds a credit balance. Every call after that is a plain Bearer request: no signing, no chain round-trip, more requests per second.

Generate API key your first top-up creates the key — shown once

Agents: paste Set up https://fetcher.sh/skill.md into your agent — it reads the skill and sets everything up.