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YouTube Trends API

YouTube search interest for any keyword as a normalized time series, growth rates over 3M/6M/12M/5Y, and the live trending videos feed. No Google Cloud project, no OAuth, no quota-unit accounting.

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POST get_growth · YouTube

# one POST, every source
POST https://api.trendsapi.ai/api
Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY

{ "mode": "get_growth",
  "source": "YouTube",
  "keyword": "mrbeast",
  "window": ["3M", "12M"] }

200 OKnormalized 0-100

response

  {
    "search_term": "mrbeast",
    "data_source": "youtube",
    "results": [
      {
        "period": "3M",
        "growth": 8.4,
        "direction": "increase"
      },
      {
        "period": "12M",
        "growth": 21.9,
        "direction": "increase"
      }
    ]
  }

application/jsontimestamped

Why it exists

YouTube trend data, without the plumbing

The official YouTube Data API is built for metadata: videos, channels, playlists. It does not tell you how often people search for a topic, and it bills you in quota units that differ per endpoint. Trends API gives you the demand metric the official API omits, at a flat one-request-one-call rate.

Search interest on YouTube behaves differently from Google: tutorials, reviews and long-tail how-to queries dominate. Tracking a topic on both platforms tells you whether interest is informational (Google) or consumable content (YouTube), which matters for content planning.

Use cases

What people build with it

Video ideation

Validate a topic's search interest before scripting, not after publishing.

Channel strategy

Track your niche's rising keywords week over week.

Competitor research

Compare search demand for competing channels or formats.

Sponsorship

Show brands category growth with hard numbers in the deck.

Comparison

How it compares

	YouTube Data API	Trends API
Setup	Google Cloud project + OAuth	one API key
Search interest metric	not exposed	normalized 0-100 series
Trending videos feed	separate endpoint	included, one call
Quota management	units per call	flat: 1 request = 1 call
Free tier	10k units/day	100 requests/month

Three modes, one endpoint

get_time_series

Historical trend series for a keyword on this source, normalized 0-100.

get_growth

Growth percentages over 3M / 6M / 12M / 5Y windows.

get_top_trends

27 live boards across platforms, no keyword needed.

FAQ

Common questions

What YouTube data does Trends API provide?

Keyword search volume over time (normalized 0-100), growth over 3M/6M/12M/5Y windows, and the live YouTube Trending feed of top videos right now.

How is this different from the YouTube Data API?

The YouTube Data API returns video and channel metadata but no search-interest metric. Trends API gives you the demand side: how often people search for a topic, on a normalized scale you can compare against TikTok, Google and the rest of the 14 keyword sources.

Do I need a Google Cloud project?

No. One Trends API key, one POST endpoint, no OAuth and no quota-unit accounting.

How fresh is the data?

The trending feed updates continuously through the day. Keyword series are pulled on demand at request time; every response carries its own timestamp.

Can I track a topic across YouTube and TikTok together?

Yes. Make one get_growth call per source with the same keyword and compare the percentages directly; both are on the same normalized scale.

Keep exploring

Related trend sources

TikTokTikTok trend data as JSON Google TrendsQuery Google Trends data as JSON SteamSteam trend data as JSON

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