YouTube Search by Hashtag

Searches YouTube for content matching a specific hashtag and returns matching videos with title, URL, thumbnail, view count (views), publish date, duration, and channel info.

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YouTube Search by Hashtag
GET /v1/youtube/search/hashtag

Searches YouTube for content matching a specific hashtag and returns matching videos with title, URL, thumbnail, view count (views), publish date, duration, and channel info.

Authentication: x-api-key
Example URL: https://api.datawake.ai/v1/youtube/search/hashtag?hashtag=funny&continuationToken=4qmFsgKrCBIYVUNkRkpXVWE0M3NtUm00SXBIQnB&type=all

Parameters:
- hashtag (query · string · required) = funny
- continuationToken (query · string · optional) = 4qmFsgKrCBIYVUNkRkpXVWE0M3NtUm00SXBIQnB
- type (query · string · optional) = all

Overview

WakeScrap exposes this YouTube endpoint as a live-data API. The platform keeps the documented request and response shape stable while unifying auth, request tracking, and credits billing.

Searches YouTube for content matching a specific hashtag and returns matching videos with title, URL, thumbnail, view count (views), publish date, duration, and channel info. Supports pagination via continuationToken and filtering to return all content types or only shorts.

Required params: hashtag.

Headers

x-api-key string required

Your Wake API access key.

Example:

YOUR_API_KEY

Query Parameters

hashtag string required

Hashtag to search for

Example:

funny

continuationToken string

Continuation token to get more videos. Get 'continuationToken' from previous response.

Example:

4qmFsgKrCBIYVUNkRkpXVWE0M3NtUm00SXBIQnB

type string

Search for all types of content or only shorts

Example:

all

enum: all, shorts


              curl 'https://api.datawake.ai/v1/youtube/search/hashtag?hashtag=funny&continuationToken=4qmFsgKrCBIYVUNkRkpXVWE0M3NtUm00SXBIQnB&type=all' \
  -H 'x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY' \
  -H 'Accept: application/json'


              const response = await fetch("https://api.datawake.ai/v1/youtube/search/hashtag?hashtag=funny&continuationToken=4qmFsgKrCBIYVUNkRkpXVWE0M3NtUm00SXBIQnB&type=all", {
  method: "GET",
  headers: {
    'x-api-key': 'YOUR_API_KEY',
    'Accept': 'application/json',
  },
});

const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);


              import requests

response = requests.request(
    "GET",
    "https://api.datawake.ai/v1/youtube/search/hashtag?hashtag=funny&continuationToken=4qmFsgKrCBIYVUNkRkpXVWE0M3NtUm00SXBIQnB&type=all",
    headers={
        "x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
        "Accept": "application/json",
    },
)

print(response.json())


              $ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($ch, [
    CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.datawake.ai/v1/youtube/search/hashtag?hashtag=funny&continuationToken=4qmFsgKrCBIYVUNkRkpXVWE0M3NtUm00SXBIQnB&type=all",
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
        'x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY',
        'Accept: application/json',
    ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

echo $response;


              client := &http.Client{}
req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://api.datawake.ai/v1/youtube/search/hashtag?hashtag=funny&continuationToken=4qmFsgKrCBIYVUNkRkpXVWE0M3NtUm00SXBIQnB&type=all", nil)
if err != nil {
    panic(err)
}

req.Header.Set("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
req.Header.Set("Accept", "application/json")

resp, err := client.Do(req)
if err != nil {
    panic(err)
}
defer resp.Body.Close()

body, _ := io.ReadAll(resp.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))


              HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
    .uri(URI.create("https://api.datawake.ai/v1/youtube/search/hashtag?hashtag=funny&continuationToken=4qmFsgKrCBIYVUNkRkpXVWE0M3NtUm00SXBIQnB&type=all"))
    .header("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
    .header("Accept", "application/json")
    .method("GET", HttpRequest.BodyPublishers.noBody())
    .build();

HttpResponse<String> response = HttpClient.newHttpClient()
    .send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());

System.out.println(response.body());


              {
  "videos": [
    {
      "type": "video",
      "id": "jXMISgQq9MM",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXMISgQq9MM",
      "title": "Epic fails 🤣🤣🤣 #shorts #funny #fails",
      "description": "",
      "thumbnail": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jXMISgQq9MM/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwFBCNACELwBSFryq4qpAzMIARUAAIhCGADYAQHiAQoIGBACGAY4AUAB8AEB-AG2CIACgA-KAgwIABABGGUgXyhVMA8=&rs=AOn4CLC1HXfxzLayoVBdicS5DIU...",
      "channel": {
        "id": "UCvUzWu1Whyw1FWuLl9GOo_g",
        "title": "ZZang Funny",
        "thumbnail": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/rcZKcfewHTzkauGknat3NeC53rGBofYDbL8AjFkwvsk2fXzM1clht7OTn9-1IIPnmbeZkrNGdxI=s68-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj"
      },
      "viewCountText": "22,668,056 views",
      "viewCountInt": 22668056,
      "publishedTimeText": "4 weeks ago",
      "publishedTime": "2025-01-04T23:12:42.919Z",
      "lengthText": "1:00",
      "lengthSeconds": 60,
      "badges": []
    }
  ],
  "continuationToken": "4qmFsgLtBRIJRkVoYX...."
}


              {
  "error": {
    "code": "invalid_request",
    "message": "One or more required parameters are missing or invalid."
  }
}


              {
  "error": {
    "code": "unauthorized",
    "message": "Invalid or missing x-api-key header."
  }
}


              {
  "error": {
    "code": "insufficient_credits",
    "message": "This request requires available credits before execution."
  }
}