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YouTube Shorts Scraper — Discovery, Virality & Downloads

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Scrape YouTube Shorts by channel, keyword, hashtag, or URL (auto-detected). Views, likes, comments, duration, hashtags, channel stats + viral score & engagement rate. Optional comment scraping and 360p video downloads to Apify storage.

Pricing

from $2.50 / 1,000 short scrapeds

Rating

5.0

(1)

Developer

Omar Eldeeb

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Total users

Monthly active users

5 hours ago

Last modified

Categories

Videos

Social media

You can access the YouTube Shorts Scraper — Discovery, Virality & Downloads programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = {
9    "startUrls": ["@MrBeast"],
10    "proxyConfiguration": {
11        "useApifyProxy": True,
12        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
13    },
14}
15
16# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
17run = client.actor("constructive_calm/youtube-shorts-scraper-pro").call(run_input=run_input)
18
19# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
20print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
21for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
22    print(item)
23
24# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

YouTube Shorts Scraper - Data, Virality & Video Downloads API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use YouTube Shorts Scraper — Discovery, Virality & Downloads API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

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