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YouTube API
Videos, Shorts, transcripts, comments and channel stats from any public YouTube channel.
Overview
Read YouTube the way a signed-out viewer sees it: video details with exact view and like counts, transcripts, comment threads, channel stats and uploads, and search. Useful for creator research, content planning, competitor tracking and social listening.
Counts that YouTube only shows rounded, like subscribers, come both as a number and as the text YouTube shows.
Source: youtube.com.
Endpoints
Call it
Each endpoint is a web address. Request it with GET, put your API key in the x-api-key header, and you get JSON back. For example, Video details:
curl "https://api.lurkapi.com/v1/youtube/video?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DdQw4w9WgXcQ" \-H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"Use it in Claude
Connect LurkAPI to Claude and ask in plain English. Each endpoint is a tool Claude can call:
| Tool | Endpoint |
|---|---|
youtube_video | Video details |
youtube_transcript | Video transcript |
youtube_comments | Video comments |
youtube_comment_replies | Comment replies |
youtube_channel | Channel details |
youtube_channel_videos | Channel videos |
youtube_channel_shorts | Channel Shorts |
youtube_search | Search YouTube |
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