Platforms

YouTube

Long-form videos and Shorts: channels, every video stat but shares, keyword and hashtag search, comments, transcripts, media, Shorts trends and footage matching.

What you can get

Data	Status	Notes
Profiles	Live	A public account's name, followers and, where the platform shows them, bio and verified status.
Posts and stats	Live	Views, likes, comments, length and date. YouTube does not publish share counts.
Keyword search	Live	Public posts that match a word or phrase, in a date window.
Hashtag search	Live	Public posts under a hashtag.
Sound search	Limited	Shorts sounds, inside trend data only.
Comments	Live	The public comments under a post, with likes and replies.
Transcripts	Live	Captions first, then speech-to-text; the first 90 seconds of videos up to 10 minutes.
On-screen text	Live	Text written on the video or its cover: titles, captions burned in, show names.
Media files	Live	The video or audio file of a public post, for your own analysis.
Audience (estimated)	Live	Commenters' estimated age, gender and country.
Trends	Live	Shorts.
Footage matching	Live	Your long-form YouTube videos are the source footage clips are matched to.

Post fields

Every platform returns the same post shape (all fields). On YouTube:

shares is always 0: YouTube does not publish it.
Shorts and long-form videos share one shape; durationSec tells them apart.
A channel's profile adds video count, total views and country.

Search kinds: keyword, hashtag, account.

Example post

A real public post found by Sonder's Red Bull Rampage 2026 demo campaign (illustration, not a client result). Numbers as of 2026-11-03.

A YouTube postjson

{
  "id": "3b70da3b8927c24a1bc153cfe6bc2c89",
  "platform": "youtube",
  "externalId": "gRhWXJHej74",
  "url": "https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gRhWXJHej74",
  "creator": {
    "handle": "OutOfCollective",
    "name": "Out of Collective",
    "followers": 60600
  },
  "caption": "Szymon Godziek absolutely launching that gap #rampage #redbull #mtb",
  "hashtags": [
    "rampage",
    "redbull",
    "mtb"
  ],
  "postedAt": "2026-10-10T16:21:58Z",
  "durationSec": 24,
  "views": 4140448,
  "viewsEstimated": false,
  "likes": 23730,
  "comments": 88,
  "shares": 0,
  "transcriptExcerpt": null,
  "onscreenText": "RAMPAGE",
  "asOf": "2026-11-03T00:06:37Z"
}

Planned endpoints

Planned shapehttp

GET /v1/posts/search?platforms=youtube&q=red+bull+rampage&kind=keyword&since=2026-10-01 HTTP/1.1
Host: api.sonderlabs.co.uk
Authorization: Bearer <your API key>