YouTube Hype API
YouTube Hype leaderboard API — trending videos across Gaming, Sports, Music, and more by region. Discover viral content early from $0.01/call.
Fetch the YouTube Hype leaderboard — trending videos across categories like Gaming, Sports, Music, Food, and more. Filter by country and language for region-specific hype content.
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{
"ok": true,
"data": {
"filters": [
{
"filter": "All",
"continuation": "..."
}
],
"data": [
{
"videoId": "...",
"title": "...",
"viewCount": "1.2M"
}
]
}
}Features
Call /v1/youtube/hype to get the Hype leaderboard across categories — emerging viral videos in Gaming, Sports, Music, Food, and more.
Pass geo (US, GB, CA, IN, DE) and a lang code to scope the Hype leaderboard to a specific region and language.
The response includes filters with continuation tokens, so you can page deeper into the leaderboard or switch between category filters.
Each leaderboard entry carries videoId, title, and viewCount (e.g. 1.2M), ready to rank rising videos by reach.
Use cases
Trend Discovery
Discover the hottest hyped videos across categories before they go fully viral.
Category Monitoring
Track which categories are generating the most hype in different regions.
Content Strategy
Inform your content strategy by seeing what topics are gaining traction on the hype leaderboard.
Quick start
Copy this snippet and start making calls.
const res = await fetch('https://api.yepapi.com/v1/youtube/hype', {
method: 'POST',
headers: {
'x-api-key': 'YOUR_API_KEY',
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
},
body: JSON.stringify({
"geo": "US",
"lang": "en"
}),
});
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);The YouTube Hype API — catch viral videos as they rise
The YouTube Hype API returns YouTube's Hype leaderboard — a cross-category ranking of videos gaining momentum across Gaming, Sports, Music, Food, and more. Call /v1/youtube/hype with a geo and optional lang and get a filters array (each with a continuation token) plus a data array of rising videos with videoId, title, and viewCount. It's tuned to surface what's catching fire, often before it hits the main trending tab.
At $0.01 per call you can poll the Hype leaderboard by region to spot emerging viral content early. It's the edge for trend-spotters who want lead time over the established trending chart.
What is a YouTube Hype API?
A YouTube Hype API returns the Hype leaderboard — YouTube's ranking of videos building viral momentum across categories like Gaming, Sports, Music, and Food — as structured JSON. You pass a country (geo) and optional language, and receive a filters array carrying continuation tokens for paging and category switching, plus a data array of videos with videoId, title, and viewCount. It differs from the trending tab: trending lists already-established viral hits, while Hype emphasizes emerging videos on the way up. That early-signal angle makes it the source for trend-spotting tools that value lead time.
Build your own early-trend radar
Poll the Hype leaderboard for your region on a schedule and store each snapshot — videos that climb fast across consecutive pulls are your early viral candidates, often days ahead of the trending tab. Filter by category to watch a specific vertical, like Gaming or Music, and alert your team when something spikes. Pair Hype with the Trending endpoint to measure lead time: track how long a video sits on Hype before it graduates to trending, and you've quantified your radar's head start.
YouTube Hype API pricing — $0.01/call
Each Hype leaderboard pull costs $0.01 and returns the ranked videos plus filter continuations for paging. There's no daily quota, so frequent polling to catch rising videos early stays cheap — monitoring one region every hour for a day runs about 24 cents. The official Data API has no Hype-leaderboard equivalent, so this is the practical way to read YouTube's emerging-viral signal programmatically.
Hype vs. Trending — lead time is the difference
Both surface popular videos, but at different stages of the curve. Trending is the official, established list of what's already big in a region and category; Hype leans toward videos still climbing. If your goal is to react to confirmed hits, Trending suffices; if your goal is to get ahead of them — for content planning, ad placement, or creator outreach — Hype's earlier signal is the advantage. Running both gives you the full lifecycle from rising to peaked.
Try the YouTube Hype API free
Sign up for $5 in free credit, no card required — 500 Hype leaderboard pulls. Poll a region across categories and watch which videos climb to test the early-signal angle before you build your radar.
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Frequently asked questions
Fetch the YouTube Hype leaderboard — trending videos across categories like Gaming, Sports, Music, Food, and more. Filter by country and language for region-specific hype content.
Each API call costs $0.01. No monthly minimums or subscriptions — you only pay for what you use.
Sign up for a free API key, then send a POST request to /v1/youtube/hype. Check the code example above for a ready-to-use snippet in JavaScript, cURL, or Python.
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