Search videos

What it does

Searches public YouTube videos for a query. YouTube has no public trending chart, so sorting by view count within an upload window (order, published) is the closest equivalent — results for a query, not a platform-wide ranking. viewCount is exact here.

Tool details

Field	Value
Tool name	`youtube_search`
Platform	YouTube
REST endpoint	`GET /v1/youtube/search`
Result type	Collection tool

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
`query`	`string`	Yes	Search query
`order`	`string`	No	Sort order: relevance (default), rating, newest, or views Allowed values: `relevance`, `rating`, `newest`, `views`.
`published`	`string`	No	Restrict results to videos uploaded within this window Allowed values: `hour`, `today`, `week`, `month`, `year`.
`cursor`	`string`	No	Pagination cursor
`projection_preset`	`string`	No	Defaults to `minimal`. Allowed values: `full`, `minimal`, `identity`, `engagement`, `content`.
`data_fields`	`string[]`	No	Adds top-level keys from `data` on top of the selected `projection_preset`.
`item_fields`	`string[]`	No	Adds keys from `data.orderedItems[]` on top of the selected `projection_preset`.

Example

{
  "name": "youtube_search",
  "arguments": {
    "query": "mrbeast",
    "projection_preset": "minimal",
    "data_fields": [
      "orderedItems",
      "nextCursor",
      "cursor",
      "itemCount"
    ],
    "item_fields": [
      "entityId",
      "name",
      "content",
      "summary",
      "url"
    ]
  }
}

Available data fields

@context
type
partOf
totalItems
cursor
nextCursor
next
itemCount
orderedItems

Available item fields

type
id
url
entityId
name
content
summary
duration
viewCount
tag
attributedTo
image

Response notes

Successful calls return a JSON object with a top-level data field and, when available, metadata.creditsUsed and metadata.creditsRemaining. See response format, pagination, and credits.

MCP

Tools

Chat

Automation

Code

What it does

Tool details

Parameters

Example

Available data fields

Available item fields

Response notes

​What it does

​Tool details

​Parameters

​Example

​Available data fields

​Available item fields

​Response notes

What it does

Tool details

Parameters

Example

Available data fields

Available item fields

Response notes