Youtube Shorts Scraper (CHEAK IT FIRST) 🎯

Extract detailed metadata from YouTube Shorts (single videos, share links, or playlist entries).
This Actor is built with the Apify Python SDK. It reads input via Actor.get_input() and writes results with Actor.push_data() (and saves an aggregated OUTPUT record to the default Key-Value Store). :contentReference[oaicite:1]{index=1}

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Highlights ✅

• Works with YouTube Shorts URLs and share links (also handles playlist entries).
• Extracts full metadata returned enriches with:
  • Hashtags (from title & description),
  • A sample of available video formats (formatsSample),
  • Live broadcast details,
  • Recording details,
  • Processing details,
  • A small transcript sample a list of available subtitle languages.
  • like,comments count. *published date. *others.
• Uses Apify Proxy if configured (recommended: RESIDENTIAL proxies for reliability). :contentReference[oaicite:2]{index=2}

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Input 🔧

The actor accepts JSON input. startUrls is required.

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
startUrls	array of {"url":string} or string	✅	—	One or more YouTube video or share URLs. You can also pass playlist URLs — the actor will extract entries.
proxyConfiguration	object	❌	{} / useApifyProxy:false (prefill)	Apify proxy settings or your own HTTP proxies. If present, the actor calls Actor.create_proxy_configuration() to obtain a proxy URL. :contentReference[oaicite:5]{index=5}

Example input

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ" }
  ],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    
  }
}

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Output 📤

Each processed video produces a single JSON object pushed to the dataset and saved in an aggregated OUTPUT list inside the default key-value store under the OUTPUT key.

Example output (sample)

{
  "title": "Thankyou for loving #shaky guysss❤️😍 #ishamalviya #shaky #trending #grateful",
  "type": "shorts",
  "id": "1T31NY-RNJ8",
  "vedio url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T31NY-RNJ8",
  "thumbnail Url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi_webp/1T31NY-RNJ8/maxresdefault.webp",
  "view Count": "11.1m",
  "upload date": "2025-06-15",
  "likes count": "414.9k",
  "duration": 40,
  "Category": "People & Blogs",
  "Privacy Status": "public",
  "Region Restriction": "Not restricted",
  "Live Broadcast Details": {
    "live_status": "not_live",
    "is_live": false
  },
  "Recording Details": {
    "location": [],
    "release_date": [],
    "timestamp": 1750008228
  },
  "Processing Details": {
    "status": "processed",
    "playable_in_embed": true
  },
  "Description": "",
  "commentsCount": 1019,
  "channelName": "IshaMalviyaVlogs",
  "channelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUg96ekzjuX_VBgTbp0m_mA",
  "channelId": "UCUg96ekzjuX_VBgTbp0m_mA",
  "channelUsername": [],
  "channelAvatarUrl": [],
  "inputChannelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUg96ekzjuX_VBgTbp0m_mA",
  "channelDescriptionLinks": [],
  "hashtags": [],
  "fromYTUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T31NY-RNJ8",
  "tags": [],
  "durationAlt": "40s",
  "formatsSample": [
    {
      "format_id": "sb2",
      "format_note": "storyboard",
      "ext": "mhtml",
      "resolution": "25x45",
      "fps": 1.025,
      "vcodec": "none",
      "acodec": "none",
      "protocol": "mhtml"
    },
    {
      "format_id": "sb3",
      "format_note": "storyboard",
      "ext": "mhtml",
      "resolution": "48x27",
      "fps": 2.5,
      "vcodec": "none",
      "acodec": "none",
      "protocol": "mhtml"
    }
  ],
  "transcriptSample": [],
  "availableSubtitleLanguages": [
    "ab",
    "aa",
    "ar",
    "hy",
    "as",
   "ay",
   "az",
   "bn",
   "ba",
   "eu",
   "be",
   "bho",
   "bs",
   "br",
   "bg",
   "my",
   "ca",
   "ceb",
   "zh-Hans",
   "zh-Hant",
   "co",
   "hr",
   "cs",
   "da",
   "dv",
   "nl",
   "dz",
   "en",
   "et",
   "ee",
   "fo",
   "fj",
   "fil",
   "fi",
   "fr",
   "gaa",
   "gl",
   "lg",
   "ka",
   "de",
   "el",
   "gn",
   "gu",
   "ht",
   "ha",
   "haw",
   "iw",
   "hi-orig",
   "hi",
   "hmn",
   "hu",
   "is",
   "ig",
   "id",
   "iu",
   "ga",
   "it",
   "ja",
   "jv",
   "kl",
   "kn",
   "kk",
   "kha",
   "km",
   "rw",
   "ko",
   "kri",
   "ku",
   "ky",
   "lo",
   "la",
   "lv",
   "ln",
   "lt",
   "lua",
   "luo",
   "lb",
   "mk",
   "mg",
   "ms",
   "ml",
   "mt",
   "gv",
   "mi",
   "mr",
   "mn",
   "mfe",
   "ne",
   "new",
   "nso",
   "no",
   "ny",
   "oc",
   "or",
   "om",
   "os",
   "pam",
   "ps",
   "fa",
   "pl",
   "pt",
   "pt-PT",
   "pa",
   "qu",
   "ro",
   "rn",
   "ru",
   "sm",
   "sg",
   "sa",
   "gd",
   "sr",
   "crs",
   "sn",
   "sd",
   "si",
   "sk",
   "sl",
   "so",
   "st",
   "es",
   "su",
   "sw",
   "ss",
   "sv",
   "tg",
   "ta",
   "tt",
   "te",
   "th",
   "bo",
   "ti",
   "to",
   "ts",
   "tn",
   "tum",
   "tr",
   "tk",
   "uk",
   "ur",
   "ug",
   "uz",
   "ve",
   "vi",
   "war",
   "cy",
   "fy",
   "wo",
   "xh",
   "yi",
   "yo",
   "zu"
  
   ]
}

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Output field reference (detailed)

The actor builds its result metadata plus a few computed/enriched fields.

Field	Type	Description
title	string	Video title returned .
type	string	"shorts" or "video" — inferred from URL or duration.
id	string	Video identifier (YouTube ID).
vedio url	string	(note spelling) Web URL for the video (emitted exactly as vedio url).
thumbnail Url	string	URL to the chosen thumbnail (emitted exactly as thumbnail Url).
view Count	string | null	Human-shortened view count (e.g., 1.5b).
upload date	string | null	ISO date YYYY-MM-DD (derived from upload_date or timestamp).
likes count	string | null	Human-shortened like count (e.g., 12m).
duration	integer | null	Duration in seconds.
durationAlt	string | null	Human-readable duration (e.g., 3.6 minutes or 45s).
Category	string | null	First category from yt-dlp categories.
Privacy Status	string | null	Mapped privacy value from the availability field.
License	string | null	License label from metadata (if any).
Region Restriction	string	"Not restricted" or the availability value.
Live Broadcast Details	object	{live_status, is_live, was_live, concurrent_view_count}.
Recording Details	object	{location, release_date, timestamp}. release_date normalized.
Processing Details	object	{status, playable_in_embed} — status is "processed" or "processing".
Description	string | null	Video description.
commentsCount	integer | null	Comment count (raw numeric).
channelName	string | null	Channel display name.
channelUrl	string | null	Channel URL.
channelId	string | null	Channel ID.
channelUsername	string | null	Username (currently None in default output).
channelAvatarUrl	string | null	Avatar image URL (currently None in default output).
inputChannelUrl	string | null	Channel URL captured from input/enrichment.
channelDescriptionLinks	array	List of links found in the channel description (currently empty list in default output).
hashtags	array	Extracted hashtags from title & description (lowercased).
fromYTUrl	string	Same as vedio url (source URL).
tags	array	yt-dlp tags array.
formatsSample	array	Sample of formats with fields (format_id, format_note, ext, resolution, fps, vcodec, acodec, tbr_kbps, filesize, protocol).
transcriptSample	array	Up to 25 transcript items: {start, duration, text} (requires youtube_transcript_api and available captions).
availableSubtitleLanguages	array	Union of subtitle/automatic captions keys + transcript API languages.

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