🔥 Youtube Shorts Scraper- ( Channel ) 🔥
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🔥 Youtube Shorts Scraper- ( Channel ) 🔥
[🌟Low Price🌟] ⚡ Super-fast & reliable way to grab YouTube shorts🎬 The 🔥 Youtube Channel Shorts Scraper 🔥 is your ultimate tool! 🔑 grab 1 or hundreds in seconds ⏳ Save time, skyrocket productivity & enjoy 🚀🔥
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YouTube Shorts Scraper — Apify Actor 🔎🎬
Purpose: a lightweight Apify Actor that scrapes YouTube Shorts metadata from one or more channel URLs. Designed to run in Apify using the Python SDK , it focuses on reliability and proxy support (Apify proxy or custom proxy URLs).
Key features ✅
- Extracts Shorts
videoIds from channel pages (tries multiple channel endpoints). - Fetches per-short details (title, description, duration, thumbnails, view counts, tags, captions URL, publish date, channel info).
- Built-in support for Apify Proxy (RESIDENTIAL/DATACENTER groups) via
Actor.create_proxy_configuration(). - Accepts custom proxy strings (e.g.
http://user:pass@host:portorhost:port) and normalizes the scheme. - Retries with exponential backoff, configurable timeouts and concurrency.
- Incremental
Actor.push_data()for streaming results to the Apify dataset. - Writes a local JSON file
shorts_filled_{channel_or_id}.jsonwith final results.
Input (actor input JSON)
Provide actor input using the Apify run calls.
| Field | Type | Required | Default / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
startUrls | array<{url: string}> or string | ✅ | One or more channel URLs. Example: [{"url":"https://www.youtube.com/PenMovies/shorts"}] or ["https://www.youtube.com/PenMovies"] |
maxshorts | integer | ✅ | — limit of shorts per channel to collect IDs for further detail fetching. |
proxyConfiguration | object | ✅ | Standard Apify proxy editor object. Example: { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"] } or leave useApifyProxy:false and set a custom proxy in customProxy (see below). |
concurrentWorkers | integer | ✅ | Overrides default concurrency (CONCURRENT_WORKERS env var). |
Custom proxy (provided in proxyConfiguration)
- If you provide a custom proxy string, use the
customProxy/proxyUrl/proxykey inproxyConfiguration. The actor will addhttp://automatically if you providehost:port. - If
useApifyProxyis set totrue, the actor will call Apify's proxy configuration and useproxy_conf.new_url().
Input Example :
Output Example :
Field reference
Video metadata
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
title | string | Video title |
video_id | string | YouTube video ID |
uploader | string | null |
upload_date | string | null |
publish_date | string | null |
duration | integer | null |
duration_str | string | null |
description | string | null |
categories | array | null |
tags | array | null |
thumbnail | string | null |
url | string | Video URL |
subtitles | object | null |
Engagement (raw + humanized)
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
view_count | integer | null |
view_count_str | string | null |
like_count | integer | null |
like_count_str | string | null |
comment_count | integer | null |
comment_count_str | string | null |
dislike_count | integer | null |
Channel enrichment
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
channel_name | string | null |
channel_url | string | null |
channel_id | string | null |
channel_subscriber_count | integer | null |
channel_subscriber_count_str | string | null |
about | string | null |
tiktok | string | null |
instagram | string | null |
x | string | null |
Troubleshooting checklist (fast)
- ✅ Did you pick the right proxy group? (
RESIDENTIALoften works best for YouTube scraping.) - ✅ Check your Apify proxy credits / permissions.
- ✅ If using custom proxy, ensure it accepts HTTPS and supports SNI.
- ✅ Check actor logs for
failed to fetchentries — these contain the exception message showing whether it was timeout, TLS, or HTTP error. - ✅ If you get few or zero
videoIds, try enabling Playwright-based scraping (outside scope of this actor) or increasemaxshortsand retries.
