YouTube Shorts Scraper — Fast & Detailed

Extract YouTube Shorts data by channel, hashtag, search, playlist, trending, or direct URL.

Why Choose This Scraper?

Feature	This Scraper	streamers ($2.40/1K)	apidojo ($0.50/1K)
Channel	✅	✅	✅
Hashtag search	✅	❌	❌
Keyword search	✅	❌	✅
Playlist	✅	❌	✅
Trending	✅	❌	❌
Direct URL	✅	❌	✅
Views	✅	✅	✅
Comments count	✅	✅	✅
Comment content	✅	❌	❌
Subtitles/Transcript	✅	❌	❌
Engagement rate	✅	❌	❌
Viral score	✅	❌	❌
Channel subscribers	✅	✅	✅
Channel avatar	✅	✅	❌
Date filtering	✅	✅	✅
View/Like filtering	✅	❌	✅
Resolution/FPS	✅	❌	❌
Keywords	✅	❌	✅
Price	$1.00/1K	$2.40/1K	$0.50/1K

Input Parameters

Mode

• channel — All Shorts from one or more channels
• hashtag — Shorts by hashtag (direct page scraping + search fallback)
• search — Keyword search for Shorts
• url — Specific YouTube Shorts URLs
• playlist — All videos from a YouTube playlist
• trending — Trending/popular Shorts

Filters

• maxResults — Maximum videos to return (1-5000)
• since / until — Date range filtering (YYYY-MM-DD)
• minViews / minLikes — Engagement thresholds
• sortBy — NEWEST, POPULAR, OLDEST

Options

• includeSubtitles — Extract subtitle text with timestamps
• includeComments — Extract top comments from each video
• includeChannelInfo — Add channel metadata
• maxComments — Max comments per video (1-100)

Output Fields

Field	Description
id	YouTube video ID
title	Video title
description	Video description (truncated to 2000 chars)
url	Full YouTube Shorts URL
thumbnail	Thumbnail URL
duration	Duration in seconds
duration_formatted	Formatted duration (e.g. "0:35")
view_count	Total views
like_count	Total likes (when available)
comment_count	Total comments
engagement_rate	(likes + comments) / views × 100
viral_score	views / channel_subscribers
channel_subscribers	Channel subscriber count
channel_name	Channel name
channel_url	Channel URL
channel_id	Channel ID
channel_avatar_url	Channel avatar image URL
publish_date	Publication date
keywords	Video keywords/tags
has_captions	Whether subtitles are available
caption_languages	Available subtitle languages
width / height / fps	Video resolution and framerate
resolution	Formatted resolution (e.g. "1080x1920")
location	Video location (if set)
comments	Extracted comments (when includeComments=true)
subtitles	Extracted subtitles (when includeSubtitles=true)

Technical Notes

• Uses YouTube innertube API for metadata (views, subscribers, comments)
• Uses scrapetube library for channel/hashtag/search discovery
• Residential proxy required for full metadata (views, likes, duration)
• Comment content extraction uses page scraping (adds ~3s per video)
• Subtitle extraction uses youtube-transcript-api (adds ~2s per video)

Pricing

• $1.00 per 1,000 results (Actor Start $0.001, Result $0.001)
• 58% cheaper than streamers ($2.40/1K)
• 95% cheaper than scraper-engine ($19.99/month)
• Comparable to apidojo ($0.50/1K) but with more features