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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 YouTube only shows rounded (subscribers) are returned both as a number and as the text YouTube shows.

Source: youtube.com.

Try it live

Pick an endpoint and run it: real data, no signup, 5 free requests a day.

Endpoint

GET/v1/youtube/video

1 credit per request

Press Run to fetch live data

Results come back as a table you can download as CSV, or as the raw JSON.

Endpoints

Video detailsGET /v1/youtube/video · 1 creditA video's or Short's title, description, exact views and likes, publish date, length, tags, chapters and channel.

Video transcriptGET /v1/youtube/video/transcript · 1 creditWhat's said in a video or Short: its captions as timed segments and as one block of text.

Video commentsGET /v1/youtube/video/comments · 1 creditA video's comments, top or newest first, with likes, reply counts and who wrote them.

Comment repliesGET /v1/youtube/video/comment/replies · 1 creditThe replies to one YouTube comment.

Channel detailsGET /v1/youtube/channel · 1 creditA channel's subscribers, total views, video count, join date, country, links and description.

Channel videosGET /v1/youtube/channel-videos · 1 creditA channel's videos, newest or most popular first, with views, length and upload time.

Channel ShortsGET /v1/youtube/channel/shorts · 1 creditA channel's Shorts, newest or most popular first, with titles and view counts.

Search YouTubeGET /v1/youtube/search · 1 creditSearch YouTube by keyword for videos, Shorts, channels and playlists, with date, length and type filters.

Call it

Every endpoint is a GET with your key in the x-api-key header. For example, Video details:

curl

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"

Get a free API key

Use it in Claude

Once LurkAPI is connected to Claude, each endpoint is a tool Claude can call:

Tool	What it does
`youtube_video`	Video details: A video's or Short's title, description, exact views and likes, publish date, length, tags, chapters and channel.
`youtube_transcript`	Video transcript: What's said in a video or Short: its captions as timed segments and as one block of text.
`youtube_comments`	Video comments: A video's comments, top or newest first, with likes, reply counts and who wrote them.
`youtube_comment_replies`	Comment replies: The replies to one YouTube comment.
`youtube_channel`	Channel details: A channel's subscribers, total views, video count, join date, country, links and description.
`youtube_channel_videos`	Channel videos: A channel's videos, newest or most popular first, with views, length and upload time.
`youtube_channel_shorts`	Channel Shorts: A channel's Shorts, newest or most popular first, with titles and view counts.
`youtube_search`	Search YouTube: Search YouTube by keyword for videos, Shorts, channels and playlists, with date, length and type filters.