YouTube video sponsors API

Q: Which errors can it return?

invalid_params (do not retry), unsupported_url (do not retry), not_found (do not retry). Account and platform errors from the errors list can also happen. A failure always costs 0 credits.

Q: How do I get more than one page?

Send the same request with cursor set to the cursor you received, until has_more is false . Each page costs its own price. See pagination .

Q: Is there an SDK call for it?

The preview Python client has client.youtube.video_sponsors(...) and the TypeScript client client.youtube.videoSponsors() . Both return the same envelope as the HTTP API. The packages are not published yet; plain HTTP works today in any language.

Whether the video discloses paid promotion, and the suspected sponsors with confidence and evidence in extra, inferred from the public description, its links, promo codes and the transcript.

GETapi.socialscrape.io/v1/youtube/video/sponsors

Cost: 1 credit
Cached repeats: 0 creditssend max_age_days, results kept 30 days
Failed requests: 0 credits
Status: Betashape may still gain fields

Experimental. An inference, not a statement from YouTube; parent is the video.

You send one of url or id.

Request

Send your key in the x-api-key header.

curl

curl -G "https://api.socialscrape.io/v1/youtube/video/sponsors" \
  -H "x-api-key: $SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY" \
  --data-urlencode 'id=JsBZOcqZerk'

Python

import os
import requests

params = {
    "id": "JsBZOcqZerk",
}
res = requests.get(
    "https://api.socialscrape.io/v1/youtube/video/sponsors",
    headers={"x-api-key": os.environ["SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY"]},
    params=params,
    timeout=60,
)
body = res.json()

if body["ok"]:
    print(body["data"])
else:
    print(body["error"]["code"], body["error"]["message"])

TypeScript

const url = new URL("https://api.socialscrape.io/v1/youtube/video/sponsors");
url.search = new URLSearchParams({
  id: "JsBZOcqZerk",
}).toString();
const res = await fetch(url, {
  headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY! },
});
const body = await res.json();

if (body.ok) {
  console.log(body.data);
} else {
  console.error(body.error.code, body.error.message);
}

n8n

{
  "nodes": [
    {
      "name": "SocialScrape YouTube video sponsors",
      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.httpRequest",
      "typeVersion": 4.2,
      "position": [
        0,
        0
      ],
      "parameters": {
        "method": "GET",
        "url": "https://api.socialscrape.io/v1/youtube/video/sponsors",
        "sendQuery": true,
        "queryParameters": {
          "parameters": [
            {
              "name": "id",
              "value": "JsBZOcqZerk"
            }
          ]
        },
        "sendHeaders": true,
        "headerParameters": {
          "parameters": [
            {
              "name": "x-api-key",
              "value": "={{ $env.SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY }}"
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  ],
  "connections": {}
}

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
`url`	url	one of	Video or Short URL (watch, youtu.be, shorts, live, embed).
`id`	string	one of	11-character video id. Also accepted as `videoId`, `video_id`.
`language`	string		2-letter language used for the transcript lookup. Also accepted as `lang`.
`cursor`	string		Opaque cursor from the previous page; pass it back unchanged. Also accepted as `continuationToken`, `continuation_token`, `next_max_id`, `max_id`, `max_cursor`, `min_time`, `after`, `page_token`, `pageToken`, `paginationToken`, `next_page_id`, `page`.

Every request also accepts trim, raw and max_age_days.

Response

Sample from a recorded response, shortened. Values are public data, not yours.

Status 200Sample

{
  "ok": true,
  "credits_charged": 1,
  "credits_remaining": 4999,
  "cached": false,
  "cached_at": null,
  "request_id": "req_ae547b4324d3096a10bbc2c4",
  "data": {
    "object": "list",
    "items": [
      {
        "object": "advertiser",
        "platform": "youtube",
        "id": null,
        "name": "Incogni",
        "url": "https://incogni.com/veritasium",
        "page_id": null,
        "country": null,
        "verified": null,
        "ad_count": null,
        "extra": {
          "confidence": 0.96,
          "evidence": [
            "ack the \"unbreakable\" enigma? Sponsored by Incogni - use code veritasium at https://incogni.com/veritasium to",
            "How did Bletchley Park's codebreakers crack the \"unbreakable\" enigma? Sponsored by Incogni - use code veritasium at https://incogni.com/veritasium to get an ..."
          ],
          "inferred": true,
          "promo_codes": [
            "BREAKERS",
            "VERITASIUM"
          ],
          "signals": [
            "description_mentions_sponsor",
            "labelled_link",
            "link_on_sponsor_line"
          ]
        }
      }
    ],
    "cursor": null,
    "has_more": false,
    "parent": {
      "object": "post",
      "platform": "youtube",
      "id": "JsBZOcqZerk",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsBZOcqZerk",
      "type": "video",
      "author": {
        "id": "UCHnyfMqiRRG1u-2MsSQLbXA",
        "handle": "veritasium",
        "name": "Veritasium",
        "url": "https://www.youtube.com/@veritasium",
        "avatar_url": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/7vCbvtCqtjQ3YLgsJt7Y952MQV1sBvhllSCSxHP8_sVZdcPCBrITfhkN2RdyCuwPnsByq-1GoA=s176-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj",
        "verified": true
      },
      "title": "The Insane Real Engineering of the Nazi Enigma Machine",
      "text": "How did Bletchley Park's codebreakers crack the \"unbreakable\" enigma? Sponsored by Incogni - use code veritasium at https://incogni.com/veritasium to get an ...",
      "published_at": "2026-09-21T17:49:57Z",
      "duration_seconds": 2861,
      "language": null,
      "hashtags": null,
      "mentions": null,
      "stats": {
        "views": 21147459,
        "likes": 150094,
        "comments": 7400,
        "shares": null,
        "saves": null,
        "dislikes": null
      },
      "media": {
        "thumbnail_url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi_webp/JsBZOcqZerk/maxresdefault.webp",
        "video_url": null,
        "audio_url": null,
        "image_urls": null,
        "width": null,
        "height": null
      },
      "song": null,
      "location": null,
      "is_pinned": null,
      "is_sponsored": true,
      "extra": {
        "caption_tracks": [
          {
            "auto_generated": false,
            "language": "en",
            "name": "English",
            "translatable": true
          },
          {
            "auto_generated": true,
            "language": "en",
            "name": "English (auto-generated)",
            "translatable": true
          }
        ],
        "category": "Education",
        "channel_subscribers": 21400000,
        "channel_subscribers_approximate": true,
        "channel_subscribers_text": "21.4M subscribers",
        "chapters": [
          {
            "start_seconds": 0,
            "thumbnail_url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/JsBZOcqZerk/hqdefault_24100.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEcCNACELwBSFXyq4qpAw4IARUAAIhCGAFwAcABBg==&rs=AOn4CLA7MBZ6jp4ge_fj7RC_RU_F-pgyTA",
            "title": "Who invented Enigma?"
          },
          {
            "start_seconds": 256,
            "thumbnail_url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/JsBZOcqZerk/hqdefault_259900.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEcCNACELwBSFXyq4qpAw4IARUAAIhCGAFwAcABBg==&rs=AOn4CLCV0ZId5UG2cmbSxLQv6abu711WfQ",
            "title": "How did Enigma work?"
          },
          {
            "start_seconds": 651,
            "thumbnail_url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/JsBZOcqZerk/hqdefault_651200.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEcCNACELwBSFXyq4qpAw4IARUAAIhCGAFwAcABBg==&rs=AOn4CLC2HKeVcrrrl6pUsUz2JvsezlzoIw",
            "title": "The Secret Spy Mansion"
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  },
  "cursor": null,
  "has_more": false
}

Fields

A page of results. Each entry in items is a Advertiser. cursor and has_more page through the rest.

A field the platform does not give is null, never made up. Extra platform details are in extra.

Field	Type	Always	Notes
`object`	`"advertiser"`
`platform`	Platform	yes	the ad library's platform
`id`	string or null
`name`	string or null
`url`	string or null
`page_id`	string or null
`country`	string or null
`verified`	boolean or null
`ad_count`	integer or null
`extra`	object or null

Full field list in the reference for this endpoint and the data models. Errors are listed under Errors.

Questions

Which errors can it return?

invalid_params (do not retry), unsupported_url (do not retry), not_found (do not retry). Account and platform errors from the errors list can also happen. A failure always costs 0 credits.

How do I get more than one page?

Send the same request with cursor set to the cursor you received, until has_more is false. Each page costs its own price. See pagination.

Is there an SDK call for it?

The preview Python client has client.youtube.video_sponsors(...) and the TypeScript client client.youtube.videoSponsors(). Both return the same envelope as the HTTP API. The packages are not published yet; plain HTTP works today in any language.

Can an AI agent call it?

Yes. The MCP server reaches every built endpoint, with the same prices.

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