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YouTube Search

Search public YouTube videos, Shorts, channels, playlists, shelves, and live results by query with optional filters, pagination, and explicit caveats for leaky upload-date and no-result behavior.

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Overview

YouTube Search searches public YouTube by keyword or phrase across videos, Shorts, channels, playlists, shelves, and live results, with optional upload-date, sort, type, duration, region, include-extras, and continuation-token controls. Use it to map a topic, competitor, trend, or creator space before drilling into selected results.

Use cases

  • Find public YouTube results for a campaign theme, product category, competitor, or audience question.
  • Separate videos, Shorts, channels, playlists, and live results for faster research triage.
  • Use continuation tokens to inspect the next page of the same query and filter set.

Input tips

  • Use a specific keyword or phrase rather than a broad one-word query.
  • Set type when you only want videos, Shorts, channels, or playlists; leave it blank for all supported result types.
  • Use upload-date, duration, and region filters sparingly because YouTube may include results outside them.
  • Use include extras only when additional video fields are worth a slower, less reliable run.

Expected output

The AI Tool returns availability status, lookup kind, source query, applied upload-date, sort, type, duration, and region filters, requested continuation token, include-extras flag, typed videos, Shorts, channels, playlists, shelves, live results, combined typed results, next continuation token, freshness caveat, provider messages, normalization notes, additional recovered fields, and cost metadata. Video-like items can include IDs, URLs, titles, descriptions, thumbnails, channel summaries, view, comment, and like counts, publish labels, durations, badges, caption tracks, and related metadata when returned.

Caveats

  • Search results are directional, not exhaustive, guaranteed stable, or a complete ranking.
  • Upload-date and no-result behavior can be leaky; read the returned freshness caveat.
  • Continuation tokens depend on the same query and filter context and can expire or change.
  • includeExtras can be slower and less reliable; verify selected videos or channels on YouTube.

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