# Overview

Algrow — YouTube research, text-to-speech, and AI media platform

Algrow is a **YouTube intelligence and AI media platform** that combines **channel research**, **text-to-speech**, and **AI image, video, and thumbnail generation** behind a single API. Search curated Shorts and Longform channel databases, pull daily growth analytics, scrape YouTube data, and turn scripts into hosted audio — all with one API key.

Everything in these docs is available two ways: the **REST API** for your own code, and the **MCP server** for Claude, Cursor, and other AI assistants.

Get started in minutes — [grab your API key](https://algrow.online/settings/api-keys) and make your first call.

- [Quick Start Get your API key and make your first API call in under 60 seconds](/docs/quickstart)

- [MCP Server How most people use Algrow — every tool inside Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any MCP client](/docs/mcp)

- [REST API Explore every endpoint — channel research, TTS, media generation, and more](/docs/api)

- [Channel Research Search the Shorts and Longform channel databases with similarity search and realtime growth data](/docs/api/channel-research)

- [Text-to-Speech Turn scripts into hosted audio files with cloned or library voices](/docs/api/text-to-speech)

- [Media Generation Generate images and videos, remove captions and watermarks](/docs/api/media-generation)

- [Thumbnails Generate, edit, and analyze thumbnails in any channel's style](/docs/api/thumbnails)

- [API Keys Create and manage your API keys for authentication](/docs/api-keys)

- [Credits & Limits How credits are charged per feature and what the rate limits are](/docs/credits)

- [Changelog What shipped recently across the platform and the API](/changelog)