Video search guide / 2026

Video Search API for AI Agents in 2026

Video discovery is often a metadata problem. Agents and chat interfaces need a title, creator, upload-time display, duration, thumbnail, and a link that opens the public source page.

Quick answer

Return public watch-page links, not streams.

Use sort=date and an exact creator filter for prompts such as “give me the latest video from Taylor Swift,” then show the source-page URL in the chat UI.

curl --get 'https://extractor.sh/api/extract' \
  --data-urlencode 'url=https://example.com/' \
  --data-urlencode 'format=json'

Available data

What you can extract

Up to 20 public video results
Title, creator, duration, thumbnail, and URL
Relevance or newest-first ordering
Optional exact creator filter

AI workflows

Where normalized data helps

Creator-monitoring assistants
Video discovery UIs
Media research agents
Multimodal source catalogs

AI-ready output

Markdown for models. JSON for systems.

Raw HTML consumes tokens on navigation, scripts, styling, and interface labels. Clean Markdown keeps the readable hierarchy for LLM prompts and RAG chunks. Normalized JSON is better when your application needs an explicit semantic type, source, author, publication date, media, attributes, and collection items.

Always retain the canonical URL from the response. AI-generated summaries should remain traceable to the public source, especially when the underlying page can change.

Boundaries

Public data only

Only public listing metadata and source-page links are returned.
Streams, downloads, transcripts, and playback extraction are unavailable.
Creator matching operates on fetched results only.

extractor.sh does not bypass CAPTCHAs, login walls, paywalls, access controls, or regional restrictions. Review the source’s terms and applicable law before collecting or reusing data.