YouTube Keyword Research API | YouTube SEO API

Parameter	Type	Requirement	Description
keyword	string	Required	the keyword you want to search for
X-API-KEY	string	Required	Your vebAPI api key

Parameter

Type

Requirement

Description

keyword

string

Required

the keyword you want to search for

X-API-KEY

string

Required

Your vebAPI api key

📺 Keyword Research - YouTube API – VebAPI

Get accurate YouTube keyword metrics including monthly search volume, competition score, keyword difficulty, and related keyword suggestions.

📝 Description

The YouTube Keyword Research API provides powerful insights into what people are searching for on YouTube. It includes the exact keyword’s search volume, SEO difficulty, competition level, and relevance score, as well as a list of related keywords to help optimize your video titles, descriptions, and tags.

This API is ideal for YouTube content creators, video SEO tools, YouTube ad managers, and channel optimization platforms.

🎯 Key Benefits

📊 Get real YouTube search volume for any keyword
🧠 Understand keyword difficulty and competition level
🔍 Discover related keyword ideas to expand your content strategy
🚀 Optimize for better discoverability and higher ranking on YouTube
💡 Great for niche targeting, video SEO, and ad keyword planning

🌐 Base URL

https://vebapi.com/api/youtube/keywordresearch

📥 Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
`keyword`	string	✅ Yes	The main keyword to analyze. Example: `email marketing`

Headers Required:

X-API-KEY: YOUR_API_KEY

Content-Type: application/json

📤 Output Response

Returns a JSON object with keyword insights split into two sections: exact_keyword and related_keywords.

🔹 exact_keyword (Array with a Single Keyword Object)

Field	Type	Description
`keyword`	string	The keyword that was searched
`monthlysearch`	int	Estimated monthly search volume on YouTube
`competition_score`	int	Numerical competition score (0–100)
`difficulty`	string	SEO difficulty (`Low`, `Medium`, `High`)
`overallscore`	int	Internal performance score (0–100)

🔸 related_keywords (Array of Suggested Keywords)

Each object contains:

Field	Type	Description
`keyword`	string	Related or similar keyword
`monthlysearch`	int	Monthly search volume
`competition_score`	int	Keyword competition score
`difficulty`	string	Difficulty to rank for this keyword
`overallscore`	int	Internal score based on potential
`last_update`	string	Date of last data update (YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS)

{ "exact_keyword": [ { "keyword": "email marketing", "monthlysearch": 229164, "competition_score": 56, "difficulty": "High", "overallscore": 66 } ], "related_keywords": [ { "keyword": "email marketing tips", "monthlysearch": 2611, "competition_score": 53, "difficulty": "High", "overallscore": 50, "last_update": "2025-08-08 02:00:09" }, { "keyword": "email marketing complete guide", "monthlysearch": 1486, "competition_score": 40, "difficulty": "Medium", "overallscore": 52, "last_update": "2025-08-08 02:00:09" }, { "keyword": "hubspot crm demo", "monthlysearch": 1540, "competition_score": 34, "difficulty": "Medium", "overallscore": 55, "last_update": "2025-08-08 02:00:09" }, { "keyword": "ecommerce email marketing", "monthlysearch": 2407, "competition_score": 27, "difficulty": "Medium", "overallscore": 60, "last_update": "2025-08-08 02:00:09" }, { "keyword": "increase sales with email marketing", "monthlysearch": 0, "competition_score": 14, "difficulty": "Low", "overallscore": 35, "last_update": "2025-08-08 02:00:09" }, { "keyword": "email marketing for beginners", "monthlysearch": 18003, "competition_score": 37, "difficulty": "Medium", "overallscore": 63, "last_update": "2025-08-08 02:00:09" } ] }

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📺 Keyword Research - YouTube API – VebAPI

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