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YouTube Hashtag Search

Search YouTube by hashtag for videos, Shorts, channels, playlists, and live results, with pagination when available.

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Overview

YouTube Hashtag Search searches public YouTube content for one hashtag and groups returned videos, Shorts, channels, playlists, live rows, and other result data. Use it to sample hashtag conversations, creative examples, and topic momentum before selecting videos for deeper review.

Use cases

  • Search a campaign, category, or creator hashtag to find public YouTube examples.
  • Collect mixed videos, Shorts, channels, playlists, and live rows around a hashtag.
  • Use returned video IDs or URLs as candidates for YouTube Video Details, Transcript, or Comments.

Input tips

  • Enter one hashtag without spaces; a leading # is accepted and removed.
  • Leave type as all for the broadest and most reliable hashtag results.
  • Use Shorts-only only when sparse results are acceptable.
  • Paste a returned continuation token only to sample another page, not to build a deep crawl.

Expected output

The AI Tool returns lookup status, lookup kind, normalized source hashtag, content type filter, experimental note, requested continuation token, next continuation token, result count, typed videos, Shorts, channels, playlists, shelves, live rows, flattened result rows, warnings, normalization notes, recovered fields, and cost metadata. Video and Short rows can include IDs, URLs, titles, descriptions, thumbnails, channel summaries, views, likes, comments, publish timing, durations, genre, badges, keywords, captions, collaborators, chapters, and recovered fields when returned.

Caveats

  • This AI Tool is experimental, and result counts can vary across repeated runs.
  • The Shorts-only filter can return empty pages even when all-content results include Shorts.
  • Continuation-token pages can overlap heavily, so avoid treating pagination as a reliable deep crawl.
  • Some hashtags can return sparse, empty, or unrelated-looking results.
  • Use YouTube Video Details before relying on one result in a brief or campaign plan.