Get search suggestions — YouTube API

Returns YouTube's search-box autocomplete suggestions for a partial query. Not paginated.

GET/v1/youtube/search/typeahead1 credit per request

Example response200OK

{
  "data": {
    "@context": [
      "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#",
      "https://konbiniapi.com/ns/social#"
    ],
    "type": "Collection",
    "totalItems": 3,
    "items": [
      {
        "type": "Link",
        "name": "mrbeast",
        "href": "https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mrbeast"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Make the request.

One authenticated GET to /v1/youtube/search/typeahead. Authentication and error conventions stay consistent across endpoints. This page shows the path, parameters, response shape, limits, and credit rule for this operation.

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Full reference for this endpoint

const response = await fetch("https://api.konbiniapi.com/v1/youtube/search/typeahead?query=mrbe", {
  headers: { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" }
});

const data = await response.json();

Parameters1

queryrequiredIn · QueryType · stringPartial query to complete, as typed into the search box

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