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://webstractor.com/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.
webstractor.com 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.
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