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Niconico Video API

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Live video, search and engagement data from Niconico (nicovideo.jp), the pioneering Japanese video platform that invented danmaku — the comments that scroll across the video itself — read keyless from Niconico's public Snapshot Search API and video-info endpoint. Niconico is one of Japan's biggest video communities, the home of Vocaloid, "Let's Play" culture and a vast catalogue with videos counting tens of millions of views and millions of overlaid comments. This exposes what is popular, who is watching and how each video is performing across Niconico's distinctive engagement signals — views, the famous scrolling comments, mylist bookmarks and likes. The search endpoint finds videos by keyword, sorted by views, comments, mylists, likes or upload date — the way to surface the platform's most-watched and most-discussed content. The tag endpoint browses an exact Niconico tag (the platform's main discovery axis — VOCALOID, ゲーム/games, 音楽/music, アニメ/anime) ranked by views, so you can see what leads a category. The video endpoint returns one video's full detail by its watch id (the sm/nm/so id), including its description, tags, length, upload date and uploader. This is the Niconico platform cut — a distinct social/video platform, separate from the YouTube, Bilibili, TikTok, BitChute and other platform feeds in the catalogue. View, comment, mylist and like counts are live; nothing is stored beyond a short cache. Counts are integers; dates are as the platform reports them (JST).

#niconico #nicovideo #video #japan #social #vocaloid #engagement
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/api/niconico-api/openapi.json
/api/niconico-api/llms.txt

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  • 1,300 calls / month
  • 2 requests / second
  • Hard cap (429 above quota, no overage)
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Starter

€14.50 /month

  • 32,000 calls / month
  • 6 requests / second
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  • 32k calls/month
  • 6 req/sec
  • Search + tag browse
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Pro

€53.00 /month

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  • 16 requests / second
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  • Full video detail
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Scale

€147.00 /month

  • 620,000 calls / month
  • 40 requests / second
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  • 40 req/sec
  • Full Niconico feed
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Live looping-video data from Coub, the social platform built around short, seamlessly looping video clips, served straight from Coub's public API — no key, nothing cached. The explore endpoint returns the trending feed (rising, hot or random coubs across the whole site), each with its title, view, like and recoub counts, duration, channel and tags, plus ready-to-use loop-preview image URLs at several sizes. The tag endpoint returns the newest coubs for a tag — cats, gaming, music — the hashtag feed of Coub. The channel endpoint returns a creator's profile (title, follower and recoub counts) together with their most recent coubs. Every clip comes back cleaned up: the watch URL, the channel handle, the human tags and several preview-image sizes. Everything is live from Coub, nothing stored. This is the looping-video discovery layer for any feed, meme, moodboard, embed or social app. Distinct from YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion and other video APIs — this is Coub's looping clips by trend, tag and channel. 3 endpoints, no key on our side.

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Frequently asked questions

Quick answers about pricing, quotas, and integration.

How do I get an API key for Niconico Video API?
Sign up for free at oanor.com, generate an API key from the developer dashboard, and call Niconico Video API with the x-oanor-key header. No credit card needed for the free tier.
What's the rate limit for Niconico Video API?
Free tier allows 1 request per second. Paid plans scale up to 50 requests per second on the Mega tier. Hard limits return HTTP 429 above the quota — no surprise overage charges.
How much does Niconico Video API cost?
Niconico Video API has a free tier with 100 calls / month. Paid plans start at €14.50 / month with higher quotas and faster rate limits.
Can I cancel my subscription anytime?
Yes. Plans are billed monthly and you can cancel anytime from your billing dashboard. No long-term contracts and no cancellation fee.
Is Niconico Video API GDPR-compliant?
All requests to Niconico Video API go through our EU-based gateway. Your upstream API key never leaves our server and no personal data is shared with the upstream provider beyond the request you send.

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)
print(r.json())

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