# YouTube search

`POST https://api.endless.app/social/youtube_search`

Source: https://endless.app/docs/api/social/youtube-search

Search YouTube for videos, channels, or playlists by topic or keyword. Set `type` to narrow the result kind, `sort_by:'date'` + `upload_date` for recency-first monitoring, and `duration` to filter video length. For one channel's own uploads use the `youtube_channel_*` tools.

## Authentication

- `bearerAuth`: HTTP bearer (JWT)

## Parameters

| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `Endless-Api-Version` | header | string | no | Pin the caller to an API major (`1`). Omit to accept the current version. A major this deployment cannot serve is refused with 400 `unsupported_api_version`. |

## Request body

Required.

Content type: `application/json` — object

- `organization_id` (string, required)
- `max_credits` (integer): Refuse the call when its quoted ceiling exceeds this many credits.
- `tool_call_id` (string | null): The tool call behind this read, for the ledger. Every read that runs is billed, a repeated id too.
- `conversation_id` (string (uuid) | null): The chat this call belongs to, for cost attribution.
- `message_id` (string (uuid) | null): The chat turn this call belongs to, for cost attribution.
- `input` (object, required)
  - `query` (string, required): The search query (topic, keyword, name).
  - `type` ("video" | "channel" | "playlist"): Restrict results to one kind. Defaults to videos.
  - `sort_by` ("relevance" | "date" | "views"): 'relevance' (default), 'date' for newest, or 'views' for most-viewed.
  - `upload_date` ("any" | "today" | "week" | "month" | "year"): Restrict videos to those uploaded within this window. Only applies when type is 'video' (ignored for channel/playlist searches). 'any' (the default) applies no date filter — use it unless the user bounded the period.
  - `duration` ("under3min" | "3to20min" | "over20min"): Filter videos by length. Only applies when type is 'video' (ignored for channel/playlist searches).
  - `max_items` (integer): How many items to return (max 300; fetched ~48 per upstream page, so large values are slower).
  - `lang` (string): Original content language as an ISO-639 code (e.g. 'es', 'pt', 'fr'). Pass this when the channel/content is not in English so titles and descriptions come back in the original language instead of YouTube's English auto-translation. Omit for English content.

## Responses

### 200 OK

Content type: `application/json` — object

- `operation` ("instagram_profile" | "instagram_user_posts" | "instagram_user_reels" | "instagram_user_stories" | "instagram_user_highlights" | "instagram_highlight_stories" | "instagram_post" | "instagram_post_comments" | "tiktok_profile" | "tiktok_user_posts" | "tiktok_post" | "tiktok_post_comments" | "tiktok_search" | "tiktok_hashtag_posts" | "tiktok_music_posts" | "tiktok_trending" | "tiktok_trend_scan" | "linkedin_profile" | "linkedin_company" | "linkedin_user_posts" | "linkedin_company_posts" | "linkedin_post" | "linkedin_search_people" | "linkedin_search_posts" | "youtube_channel" | "youtube_channel_videos" | "youtube_channel_playlists" | "youtube_channel_shorts" | "youtube_video" | "youtube_search" | "youtube_trending" | "facebook_page" | "facebook_page_posts" | "facebook_page_reels" | "facebook_post" | "facebook_post_comments" | "facebook_group" | "facebook_group_posts" | "facebook_search" | "reddit_search" | "reddit_subreddit_posts" | "reddit_post" | "reddit_post_comments" | "x_search" | "x_profile" | "x_user_posts" | "x_post" | "x_post_comments" | "x_user_connections" | "x_tweet_engagers" | "x_trends" | "resolve_mention", required): Operation name — see the operations catalog.
- `result` (object, required)
  - `summary` (string, required): One-line result, for the reader.
  - `query` (string, required)
  - `count` (integer, required)
  - `estimated_results` (number)
  - `results` (array<object>, required)
- `requests` (integer, required)
- `credits_charged` (integer, required)

### Errors

- `400` (Error): The request is malformed, or failed input validation. `message` names the field and the rule it broke; `data.issues` carries them individually.
- `401` (Error): No bearer token, or a token that failed verification.
- `402` (Error): The workspace has no credits left, or the caller is over a spending limit.
- `403` (Error): Authenticated, but the caller's role in this workspace does not carry the permission this operation needs.
- `409` (Error): The request is well-formed, but the resource's current state forbids it — a taken name, a last admin, a limit already reached.
- `429` (Error): The caller has spent its rate-limit window. `Retry-After` says when to come back.
- `500` (Error): The request failed on our side. Safe to retry an idempotent operation with backoff.