Service metadata

Code snippets

curl "https://api.oanor.com/niconico-api/v1/meta" \
  -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."

await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/niconico-api/v1/meta", {
  headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});

$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/niconico-api/v1/meta");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$out = curl_exec($ch);

import requests
requests.get(
    "https://api.oanor.com/niconico-api/v1/meta",
    headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)

Example response

A real response from this endpoint, captured by the latest health check.

{
    "data": {
        "note": "search takes q (required), sort (views/comments/mylists/likes/new, default views), in=description (optional) and limit (1-50). tag takes tag (an exact Niconico tag, required), sort and limit. video takes id (a watch id like sm9, required). meta takes no parameters. Counts are live integers from the upstream; a short ~60-second cache fronts it.",
        "source": "Niconico Snapshot Search API + getthumbinfo, keyless, live",
        "service": "niconico-api",
        "endpoints": {
            "GET /v1/tag": "Top videos under an exact tag (tag=音楽).",
            "GET /v1/meta": "This document.",
            "GET /v1/video": "One video's full detail by watch id (id=sm9).",
            "GET /v1/search": "Search videos by keyword, sorted by engagement (q=VOCALOID, sort=views)."
        },
        "description": "Live video, search and engagement data from Niconico (nicovideo.jp), the pioneering Japanese video platform that invented danmaku (comments scrolling across the video), from its public Snapshot Search API and getthumbinfo endpoint (no key). The search endpoint finds videos by keyword sorted by views/comments/mylists/likes/new; tag browses an exact Niconico tag ranked by views (the platform's main discovery axis); video returns one video's full detail by its watch id. The Niconico platform cut — a distinct social/video platform, separate from the YouTube, Bilibili, TikTok, BitChute and other platform feeds. Engagement: views, scrolling comments, mylist bookmarks and likes.",
        "sample_video": {
            "title": "新・豪血寺一族 -煩悩解放 - レッツゴー！陰陽師",
            "views": 22965459
        },
        "upstream_status": "ok"
    },
    "meta": {
        "timestamp": "2026-06-13T04:42:53.399Z",
        "request_id": "81a5a105-a1de-487e-8b48-b283e93a4f8a"
    },
    "status": "ok",
    "message": "Meta",
    "success": true
}