SearchAPI.io - YouTube Channel API

SearchAPI.io tool searchapi-io-youtube-channel on looot: input fields, $0.004 per call, output shape, and code to run it with curl, JavaScript or Python.

Fetch comprehensive information about a YouTube channel including metadata, videos, shorts, and related channels. Cross-linking: The channel IDs returned by this API can be used with the YouTube Channel Videos API to fetch all videos from a channel.

Tool id: searchapi-io-youtube-channel
Provider: SearchAPI.io
Job: Youtube channel search (search.youtube-channel)
Price: $0.004 per call. A call that fails at the provider costs $0.

Inputs

Name	Type	Required	Description
`channel_id`	string	yes
`engine`	string	no	Fixed to “youtube_channel” for this endpoint. Example: “youtube_channel”
`gl`	string	no
`hl`	string	no

Output

The run’s result holds the provider’s answer. Signed in, looot inspect searchapi-io-youtube-channel prints its fields.

Run it

Every call needs your API token in LOOOT_TOKEN; Sign in 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:

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":"searchapi-io-youtube-channel","input":{"channel_id":"<channel_id>","engine":"youtube_channel"},"wait":30}'

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: "searchapi-io-youtube-channel",
    input: {
      channel_id: "<channel_id>",
      engine: "youtube_channel",
    },
    wait: 30,
  }),
});
const run = await response.json();
console.log(run.status, run.result);

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": "searchapi-io-youtube-channel",
        "input": {
            "channel_id": "<channel_id>",
            "engine": "youtube_channel",
        },
        "wait": 30,
    },
    timeout=90,
)
run = response.json()
print(run["status"], run.get("result"))

To let looot pick among every provider of this job instead, send job:search.youtube-channel as endpointId; see the job page.