YouTube Data API v3

Access structured YouTube data for videos, channels, playlists, search results, and engagement metrics to build custom media applications and analytics tools.

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14 endpoints
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YouTube Data API v3 endpoints

MethodEndpointDescription
activities
GET Activities
/activities/
Returns a list of channel activity events that match the request criteria. For example, you can retrieve events associated with a particular channel or with the user's own channel.
captions
GET Captions
/captions/
Returns a list of caption tracks that are associated with a specified video.
channels
GET Channels
/channels/
Returns a collection of zero or more `channel` resources that match the request criteria.
channelSections
GET ChannelSections
/channelSections/
Returns a list of `channelSection` resources that match the API request criteria.
comments
GET Comments
/comments/
Returns a list of comments that match the API request parameters.
commentThreads
GET CommentThreads
/commentThreads/
Returns a list of comment threads that match the API request parameters.
i18nLanguages
GET I18nLanguages
/i18nLanguages/
Returns a list of application languages that the YouTube website supports.
i18nRegions
GET I18nRegions
/i18nRegions/
Returns a list of content regions that the YouTube website supports.
playlistItems
GET PlaylistItems
/playlistItems/
Returns a collection of playlist items that match the API request parameters. You can retrieve all of the playlist items in a specified playlist or retrieve one or more playlist…
playlists
GET Playlists
/playlists/
Returns a collection of playlists that match the API request parameters. For example, you can retrieve all playlists that the authenticated user owns, or you can retrieve one or…
search
GET Search
/search/
Returns a collection of search results that match the query parameters specified in the API request. By default, a search result set identifies matching `video`, `channel` and…
subscriptions
GET Subscriptions
/subscriptions/
Returns subscription resources that match the API request criteria.
videoCategories
GET VideoCategories
/videoCategories/
Returns a list of categories that can be associated with YouTube videos.
videos
GET Videos
/videos/
Returns a list of videos that match the API request parameters.

YouTube Data API v3 pricing

PlanPriceRate limitQuotas
BASIC Free 5 / second
  • Requests: 500 / monthly
PRO $10 / month 5 / second
  • Requests: 10,000 / monthly (then $0.0010 each)
ULTRA $30 / month 5 / second
  • Requests: 50,000 / monthly (then $0.0010 each)
MEGA $200 / month 5 / second
  • Requests: 1,000,000 / monthly (then $0.0010 each)