---
title: "Scrape Creators API / Search"
description: "ScrapeCreators tool scrapecreators-youtube-search on looot: input fields, $0.00188 per call, output shape, and code to run it with curl, JavaScript or Python."
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Searches YouTube by keyword query and returns matching videos, channels, playlists, shorts, shelves, and live streams. Each video result includes title, URL, thumbnail, view count (views), publish date, duration, channel info, and badges. Supports filtering by upload date, sorting by relevance or popularity, and paginating with continuationToken. Set is_paid_promotions=true to search YouTube videos with the paid product placement / sponsorship disclosure.

- **Tool id:** `scrapecreators-youtube-search`
- **Provider:** [ScrapeCreators](/providers/scrapecreators)
- **Job:** [Search youtube](/reference/jobs/youtube-search) (`youtube.search`)
- **Price:** $0.00188 per call. A call that fails at the provider costs $0.

## Inputs

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `continuationToken` | string | no |   |
| `duration` | string | no |   |
| `includeExtras` | string | no |   |
| `query` | string | yes |   |
| `region` | string | no |   |
| `sortBy` | string | no |   |
| `type` | string | no |   |
| `uploadDate` | string | no |   |

## Output

Shape of the run's `result`, checked against 1 real answer:

```txt
{ lives: unknown[], shorts: { id, url, type, title, viewCountInt, viewCountText }[], videos: { id, url, type, title, badges: string[], channel: { id, title, handle, thumbnail }, thumbnail, lengthText, viewCountInt, lengthSeconds, publishedTime, viewCountText, publishedTimeText }[], shelves: unknown[], success, channels: unknown[], playlists: { id, type, title, channel: { id, title, handle, channelUrl }, videoId, videoUrl, thumbnail, videoCount, playlistUrl }[], credits_charged, continuationToken, credits_remaining }
```

## Run it

Every call needs your API token in `LOOOT_TOKEN`; [Sign in](/get-started/sign-in#use-the-token-in-scripts-and-agents) shows how to get one. Each run also needs a new idempotency key, so a retry never pays twice. With `wait: 30` the answer comes back inline when the run ends within 30 seconds. Otherwise you get the running run back: poll `GET /v1/runs/<runId>`.

Example input with placeholder values:

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```bash curl
curl -X POST "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LOOOT_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -d '{"endpointId":"scrapecreators-youtube-search","input":{"query":"<query>"},"wait":30}'
```

```js JavaScript
const response = await fetch("https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.LOOOT_TOKEN}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Idempotency-Key": crypto.randomUUID(),
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    endpointId: "scrapecreators-youtube-search",
    input: {
      query: "<query>",
    },
    wait: 30,
  }),
});
const run = await response.json();
console.log(run.status, run.result);
```

```python Python
import os
import uuid

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['LOOOT_TOKEN']}",
        "Idempotency-Key": str(uuid.uuid4()),
    },
    json={
        "endpointId": "scrapecreators-youtube-search",
        "input": {
            "query": "<query>",
        },
        "wait": 30,
    },
    timeout=90,
)
run = response.json()
print(run["status"], run.get("result"))
```

</CodeGroup>

To let looot pick among every provider of this job instead, send `job:youtube.search` as `endpointId`; see [the job page](/reference/jobs/youtube-search).