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Search YouTube videos

Search YouTube videos by query, or list a channel's or playlist's videos from its URL. Returns a list of videos with id, title, url, duration, channelName, channelUrl, viewCount, date, thumbnailUrl, and description.

Input

query optional

Free-text search query. Provide this OR channelUrl OR playlistUrl.

channelUrl optional

A channel URL — lists that channel's videos (its /videos tab). Query params you include are preserved (e.g. ?hl=fr to force the UI locale), and a URL already pointing at /videos is used as-is.

maxResults optional

Max videos to return (scrolls to load more). Default 20.

Default: 20
playlistUrl optional

A playlist URL — lists that playlist's videos.

Output

None

FAQ

Search YouTube videos by query, or list a channel's or playlist's videos from its URL. Returns a list of videos with id, title, url, duration, channelName, channelUrl, viewCount, date, thumbnailUrl, and description.
Optional: query, channelUrl, maxResults, playlistUrl.
No. It only uses pages of youtube.com that are reachable without signing in.
It only reads. It looks things up on youtube.com and changes nothing there.
Ask an AI agent connected to Reduck to run reduck/youtube.com/search_videos, or run it from a terminal with the Reduck CLI: npx @reduck-ai/cli@latest run --script reduck/youtube.com/search_videos
It is part of Reduck's official curated catalogue.

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