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Keyword Research Youtube

Accurate Monthly Search Volume, Keyword Difficulty, and Competition Details

Keyword Research Youtube

GET
GET /youtube/keywordresearch

Parameters

keyword
Required query
string

the keyword you want to search for

X-API-KEY
Required header
string

Your vebAPI api key

Example Request


curl -X GET "https://vebapi.com/api/youtube/keywordresearch?keyword=email marketing" \
    -H "X-API-KEY: YOUR_API_KEY" \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json"

Response

{
    "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"
        }
    ]
}

📺 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)