Youku Search API

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Find shows, series and videos on Youku for a keyword, up to 150 per call, with category, release date, completion status, corner badge and thumbnail. Comments are not searched, and nothing is played or checked for regional availability.

Price $1.39 per 1,000 requests ($0.001389 per call). Failed calls and empty results are not charged. Synchronous. For slow jobs add "mode": "async" to the body, take the job_id and poll.

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Please help me write a data collection script with the EveryInfra Youku Search endpoint (youku/search).

Endpoint contract:
- Request: POST https://api.everyinfra.com/api/v1/social with the header Authorization: Bearer <API key>. Read the key from the EVERYINFRA_API_KEY environment variable and never hard-code it.
- In the request body, set platform to youku and action to search, and put the parameters inside params.
- Required parameters:
  - keyword: The search term for querying shows, series, or videos on Youku using the search action. This parameter does not search video comments.
- Optional parameters:
  - limit: The most rows to return in this call, an integer from 1 to 150. The default applies when you leave it out, and a call can return fewer rows. Larger values return 422 before any charge. (default: 30)
- Returns a list of records. Main fields of each record: id, url, title, subtitle, category, source_name, release_date, is_completed, corner_tag, thumbnail_url.
- Example request body:
{
  "platform": "youku",
  "action": "search",
  "params": {
    "keyword": "纪录片"
  }
}
- Price: $1.39 per 1,000 requests; failed and empty results are not charged.
- For dozens or hundreds of targets, add "mode": "async" to the body: you get a job_id at once and poll GET https://api.everyinfra.com/api/v1/jobs/{job_id} for the result.
- On 422, fix the request using the suggested parameter names and allowed values in the error; on 429 or 503, wait for Retry-After and try again.

Before writing code, ask me which targets I need, how many, which fields, and what output format I want; then confirm the plan and the rough cost with me.

Request parameters

Name	In	Type	Required	Default	Description
`Authorization`	header	`string`	Yes	-	Bearer followed by your API key. Create it in the console; never put it in a URL or a code repository.
`platform`	body	`string`	Yes	`youku`	Platform identifier, fixed value.
`action`	body	`string`	Yes	`search`	Capability identifier, fixed value.
`keyword`	body.params	Not declared	Yes	-	The search term for querying shows, series, or videos on Youku using the search action. This parameter does not search video comments.
`limit`	body.params	`integer (1–150)`	No	`30`	The most rows to return in this call, an integer from 1 to 150. The default applies when you leave it out, and a call can return fewer rows. Larger values return 422 before any charge.

Code samples

bash

curl -X POST 'https://api.everyinfra.com/api/v1/social' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $EVERYINFRA_API_KEY" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{
  "platform": "youku",
  "action": "search",
  "params": {
    "keyword": "纪录片"
  }
}'

[OpenAPI definition (JSON)]Samples read the key from the EVERYINFRA_API_KEY environment variable; copied code never contains your key.

Response example

Field preview

There is no real sample for these example parameters yet: this shows the response shape and fields from the contract, with … as placeholders. It is not the result of a real call.

json

{
  "id": "req_…",
  "platform": "youku",
  "action": "search",
  "results": [
    {
      "id": …,
      "url": …,
      "title": …,
      "subtitle": …,
      "category": …,
      "source_name": …,
      "release_date": …,
      "is_completed": …,
      "corner_tag": …,
      "thumbnail_url": …,
      "platform": …
    }
  ],
  "count": …,
  "billing": {
    "charged": …,
    "charged_usd": …,
    "balance_after_usd": …,
    …
  },
  "quota": { … }
}

Response fields

Business data is in results. The table lists the fields a record can contain; values the platform does not show are never made up.

Field	Meaning
`id`	The record's unique ID on the platform. Unique only within one platform; IDs can repeat across platforms.
`url`	Link to the record on the platform.
`title`	Title. null when the platform has no titles (for example text-only posts).
`subtitle`	Keeps the platform's own meaning
`category`	Category name in the platform's own taxonomy, not normalized across platforms.
`source_name`	Keeps the platform's own meaning
`release_date`	Keeps the platform's own meaning
`is_completed`	Keeps the platform's own meaning
`corner_tag`	Keeps the platform's own meaning
`thumbnail_url`	Thumbnail link, lower resolution than image_url.
`platform`	Source platform identifier, the same as platform in the request (for example xiaohongshu, tiktok).

Errors and billing

401: Missing or invalid key. Authentication runs before parameter checks, so unauthenticated requests never see the parameter schema.
422: Wrong parameter name or value. The error lists the parameters and allowed values this capability accepts and the closest match; it happens before any charge.
402: Insufficient balance. Top up first.
429: The account's per-minute request limit was reached (all of its API keys count together; a key's own lower limit applies first). Wait for Retry-After and try again; a rate package in the console raises the limit.
503: Could not complete right now. Any charge for the call goes back to your balance automatically, and the billing receipt in the response states the actual outcome, including when it is not yet known. Do not resend blindly.
200 empty: The request completed without data and is not charged (billing.reason = empty_result_refunded).