# Top YouTube videos on a topic this year, by views

**Use case:** 

What made the top videos on a topic popular this year? Search a phrase, keep the last twelve months, a country, a length of 4 to 20 minutes, and rank by views: ten rows with Google's own numbers, the channel and its subscribers. The natural next question — "summarise these" — is one sentence away: Video Lens reads the links. Official API, never blocked, $0.001 per video.

## Input

```json
{
  "searchQueries": [
    "meal prep"
  ],
  "channelUrls": [
    "https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd"
  ],
  "videoUrls": [
    "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"
  ],
  "playlistUrls": [
    "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFgquLnL59alCl_2TQvOiD5Vgm1hCaGSI"
  ],
  "trendingRegions": [
    "US",
    "BR"
  ],
  "trendingCategory": "any",
  "maxResults": 10,
  "order": "viewCount",
  "publishedAfter": "2025-09-24T00:00:00Z",
  "regionCode": "US",
  "relevanceLanguage": "en",
  "videoDuration": "medium",
  "liveStreams": "",
  "excludeShorts": true,
  "commentsPerVideo": 0,
  "commentOrder": "top",
  "includeChannelDetails": true
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "title": {
    "label": "Video",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "channelName": {
    "label": "Creator",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "numberOfSubscribers": {
    "label": "Subscribers",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "viewCount": {
    "label": "Views",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "likes": {
    "label": "Likes",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "date": {
    "label": "Published",
    "format": "date"
  },
  "duration": {
    "label": "Length",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "url": {
    "label": "Watch",
    "format": "link"
  },
  "channelUrl": {
    "label": "Channel",
    "format": "link"
  },
  "fromQuery": {
    "label": "Found by",
    "format": "text"
  }
}
```

## About this Actor

This example demonstrates how to use [Lexonia Search: Videos, Trending, Playlists for YouTube 视频搜索](https://apify.com/lexonia/youtube-search-api.md) with a specific input configuration. Visit the [Actor detail page](https://apify.com/lexonia/youtube-search-api.md) to learn more, explore other use cases, and run it yourself.


## How to integrate an Actor?

This Task's input is already configured above. Use it as-is rather than inventing a new one.

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For full API examples (JavaScript, Python, CLI, MCP, OpenAPI), see this Task's Actor page: https://apify.com/lexonia/youtube-search-api.md

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