YouTube

What it does

Pulls public YouTube data — videos, channels, playlists, and comment threads — and returns structured results you can read in chat or in the playground output panel.

How it works

YouTube is a native connector. No YouTube account or API key is required. AINexLayer fetches public pages when you ask.

• Chat — describe what you need (a channel, video URL, or topic). The agent runs the YouTube scraper automatically and answers from the results.
• API Playground — run the scraper yourself: open API Playground in the workspace sidebar, pick YouTube, choose a verb, fill in the form, and click Run. Results appear in the output panel; every run is logged under Runs with duration and cost.

Use in API Playground

Scrape videos, channels, and playlists

1. Open API Playground → YouTube → Scrape
2. Add at least one input:
   • URLs — a video, channel (/@handle), playlist, shorts, or hashtag page
   • Search queries — keywords to search on YouTube
3. Set Max results to 10–20 for a first run
4. Optional: enable Download subtitles if you need transcript text (slower)
5. Click Run

Fetch comments

1. Open API Playground → YouTube → Comments
2. Paste one or more Video URLs
3. Set Max comments to 10–20 for a first run
4. Optional: change Sort by to TOP_COMMENTS or NEWEST_FIRST
5. Click Run

Useful options

What you get back

Scrape returns video items with title, views, likes, publish date, channel info, description, and optional subtitles. Comments returns comment items with author, text, like count, reply relationships, and timestamps.