Is this a YouTube API?

It's Google's Videos tab, which is mostly YouTube but also includes other video hosts. It doesn't need a YouTube Data API key or quota.

Can I get only recent videos?

Yes, pass time=day, week, month or year.

Does it return transcripts?

Not yet. Transcripts are on the roadmap as part of a dedicated YouTube endpoint.

How much does it cost?

1 credit per page of results, from $0.60 per 1,000.

POST /v1/videos

Google Videos API

Search Google's Videos tab and get results from YouTube and the rest of the web, with channel, duration, date and thumbnail for each video.

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1 credit per page of results 2,500 free credits, no card Failed calls are free

Overview

What the Google Videos API does

The Google Videos API returns Google's Videos tab as JSON. It covers YouTube and other hosts, so one call finds a tutorial whether it lives on YouTube, Vimeo or a vendor's site.

Each result has a resolved link, channel, duration, date, snippet and image_url. Add time=week to see only new uploads.

What you get

videos[] array: position, title, link, domain, snippet, image_url, duration, source, channel, date.
request object: Echo of the normalized request (endpoint, engine, q, country, language, page…), handy for logging.
meta object: request_id, credits_used, cached, engine, latency_ms, resolved_urls and parse_quality. parse_quality=empty means the call was not billed.

Request

POST /v1/videos

cURL

Python

TypeScript

fetch

PHP

curl https://api.serpkite.com/v1/videos \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SERPKITE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"q":"how to pull an espresso shot","country":"us"}'

Response (illustrative, placeholder domains)

200 OK · application/json

{
  "request": {
    "endpoint": "videos",
    "engine": "google",
    "q": "how to pull an espresso shot",
    "country": "us",
    "language": "en",
    "page": 1
  },
  "results": [
    {
      "position": 1,
      "title": "How to Pull the Perfect Espresso Shot (Beginner Guide)",
      "link": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abc123xyz00",
      "domain": "youtube.com",
      "snippet": "Dose, grind, tamp and time: a step-by-step walkthrough for home baristas.",
      "image_url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/abc123xyz00/hqdefault.jpg",
      "duration": "12:48",
      "source": "YouTube",
      "channel": "Example Coffee Lab",
      "date": "Aug 3, 2026"
    }
  ],
  "meta": {
    "request_id": "req_01J8ZK4M6Q2V7",
    "credits_used": 1,
    "engine": "google",
    "cached": false,
    "latency_ms": 812,
    "resolved_urls": true,
    "parse_quality": "ok"
  }
}

Every response also carries X-Credits-Used, X-Credits-Remaining, X-Cache and X-Tokens-Estimate headers. Run this query in the playground

Reference

Parameters

The parameters /v1/videos accepts, in the JSON body or the query string.

Google Videos API parameters
Name	Type	Default	Description
`q` required	string	–	The search query. Required. Up to 2,048 characters.
`country`	string	us	Country to search from, as a two-letter ISO code (us, gb, de, in…).
`language`	string	en	Interface language, as a language code (en, de, fr, pt-BR…).
`num`	integer	10	Results per call. 10 per page; 100 fetches the top 100 as a depth bundle for 7 credits instead of 10. Values: 10, 20, 30, 50, 100.
`page`	integer	1	Results page, 1–10. Each page is billed separately.
`time`	string	–	Restrict to recent results. Shorthand for tbs=qdr:*. Values: hour, day, week, month, year.
`format`	string	json	Response format. markdown is LLM-ready prose; compact is JSON with only the fields agents need. Values: json, compact, markdown.
`fields`	string	–	Comma-separated projection, e.g. results.title,results.link,knowledge_graph. Cuts tokens.
`max_age`	integer	–	Accept a cached result up to this many seconds old. Cache hits cost 50% of the credits.

Full reference, error codes and headers are in the API docs. Send a JSON array of up to 100 request objects to run them in one call.

Use cases

What people build with the Google Videos API

Tutorial discovery

Let an agent recommend the best how-to videos for a question.

Video SEO

Track which videos rank for your keywords in Google, not only on YouTube.

Content monitoring

Watch new uploads about your brand or product each week.

Pricing