YouTube Shorts Scraper: Channels & Keyword Search
Pricing
from $1.19 / 1,000 shorts
YouTube Shorts scraper and YouTube Shorts API: scrape YouTube Shorts from any channel, or run a YouTube Shorts search by keyword. Exact views, likes and comments, publish time, duration, hashtags, the sound and song used, and the channel's subscribers. Paste Shorts links too. No login, no API key.
🎬 Title
title
Optional
Video title as YouTube shows it.
🏷️ Type
type
Optional
video, shorts or stream; channel for a channel-info row (every maximum 0: one row per channel link, the video columns empty).
🆔 Video ID
id
Optional
YouTube's 11-character video id (the channel's UC... id on a channel-info row).
🔗 Video
url
Optional
Link to the video (a /shorts/ link for Shorts; the channel's link on a channel-info row).
🖼️ Thumbnail
thumbnailUrl
Optional
The largest thumbnail: maxresdefault (1280x720) when YouTube has one, else hqdefault (the channel's avatar on a channel-info row).
👀 Views
viewCount
Optional
View count (exact on the watch page; 0 when YouTube says 'No views').
❤️ Likes
likes
Optional
Exact like count; null when the creator hides likes.
📅 Published
date
Optional
Exact publish time in UTC (2026-10-02T15:00:07Z), or the day only (2026-10-02) when no source gave the time.
📅 Date Text
dateText
Optional
The date as the watch page writes it ('Oct 2, 2026', 'Streamed live on ...').
⏱️ Duration
duration
Optional
Length as HH:MM:SS.
⏱️ Seconds
durationSeconds
Optional
Length in seconds.
📝 Description
text
Optional
The video's full description.
🔗 Description Links
descriptionLinks
Optional
Links in the description: [{url, text}].
🏷️ Tags
keywords
Optional
The video's tags (keywords) set by the creator.
🗂️ Category
category
Optional
YouTube category, e.g. Science & Technology.
🗣️ Spoken Language
originalLanguage
Optional
The language spoken in the video, e.g. English (from YouTube's player: the original audio track, else its only automatic captions). Null when YouTube doesn't say.
🗣️ Language Code
originalLanguageCode
Optional
The spoken language's code, e.g. en.
🎧 Audio Tracks
audioTracks
Optional
The video's audio tracks when it has dubs: languageCode, name, isOriginal (the uploader's own audio) and isAutoDubbed (YouTube's automatic dub), the original first. Null when the video has one audio track.
🎵 Sound
soundTitle
Optional
Shorts only: the Short's sound as YouTube's Shorts player names it, 'Original Sound' or the title of the video the sound comes from. Null for other videos.
🎶 Song
musicTitle
Optional
Shorts only: the song YouTube identified in the Short, e.g. Dai Dai. Null when it names none.
🎤 Artist
musicArtist
Optional
Shorts only: the identified song's artist(s), e.g. Shakira & Burna Boy. Null when it names none.
📍 Location
location
Optional
Location the creator tagged on the video.
🚫 Comments Off
commentsTurnedOff
Optional
True when comments are turned off.
🔒 Members Only
isMembersOnly
Optional
True for a channel-members-only video.
💰 Paid Promotion
isPaidContent
Optional
True when the video declares a paid promotion ('Includes paid promotion').
💵 Monetized
isMonetized
Optional
True when YouTube serves ads on the video to a logged-out viewer (its player answer lists ad placements); false when it serves none. Null on Shorts and when the player answer wasn't read.
🔞 Age Restricted
isAgeRestricted
Optional
True when YouTube marks the video as not family safe.
🙈 Unlisted
isUnlisted
Optional
True for an unlisted video.
🔴 Live Now
isLiveNow
Optional
True while the stream is live.
▶️ Live Started
liveStartedAt
Optional
When a live stream started (UTC).
⏹️ Live Ended
liveEndedAt
Optional
When a live stream ended (UTC).
📡 Stream type
streamType
Optional
Live streams only: scheduled, live or ended (as streamers' YouTube Actors write it). Null for other videos.
📺 Channel
channelName
Optional
Name of the channel that posted the video.
🔗 Channel URL
channelUrl
Optional
Link to the channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/).
👤 Handle
channelUsername
Optional
The channel's @handle without the @.
🆔 Channel ID
channelId
Optional
YouTube channel id (UC...).
👥 Subscribers
numberOfSubscribers
Optional
Subscriber count as YouTube shows it (27.9M = 27900000).
✅ Verified
isChannelVerified
Optional
True when the channel has the verified badge.
🖼️ Channel Avatar
channelAvatarUrl
Optional
The channel's avatar image.
🖼️ Channel Banner
channelBannerUrl
Optional
The channel's banner image (channel inputs).
📝 Channel About
channelDescription
Optional
The channel's description from its About panel.
🔗 Channel Links
channelDescriptionLinks
Optional
Links on the channel's About panel: [{text, url}].
📅 Joined
channelJoinedDate
Optional
When the channel joined YouTube ('Jan 4, 2017').
📅 Channel Created
channelCreatedAt
Optional
When the channel was created, to the second (UTC), from the channel's RSS feed when the run reads it anyway (rows that needed it for their publish time); else null (channelJoinedDate has the day).
📍 Country
channelLocation
Optional
The channel's country.
🎞️ Channel Videos
channelTotalVideos
Optional
Videos on the channel.
👀 Channel Views
channelTotalViews
Optional
Total views of the channel.
🤝 Collaborators
collaborators
Optional
Channels credited on a video made by several channels.
📝 Subtitles
subtitles
Optional
Subtitles: [{type, language, , srtUrl}] with the text under the format's name (srt, vtt, xml or plaintext); null when subtitles are off or the video has none.
📝 Subtitles Status
subtitlesStatus
Optional
Only with subtitles on: ok, or why the row has none (noCaptions, noMatchingLanguage, timeout, blocked...).
🔎 Input
input
Optional
The input (link or search term) that gave this video.
🔗 Input Channel
inputChannelUrl
Optional
The channel input that gave this video (channel inputs only).
🔗 Source Page
fromYTUrl
Optional
The YouTube page the video was listed on.
🗂️ Channel Tab
fromChannelListPage
Optional
videos, shorts or streams (channel inputs only; about on a channel-info row).
🔗 Channel About link
standardizedUrl
Optional
Channel inputs only: the channel's About page, as the input names the channel (https://www.youtube.com/@TED/about). Null for search, playlist and video inputs.
🗂️ Channel tab read
progressKey
Optional
Channel inputs only: {url, label}: the channel's About link and the tab the row came from (CHANNEL_VIDEOS, CHANNEL_SHORTS, CHANNEL_STREAMS; CHANNEL_ABOUT on a channel-info row), the shape streamers' Fast Channel Scraper rows have. Null for other inputs.
🔎 Search Term
searchQuery
Optional
The search term that gave this video (search inputs only).
#️⃣ Order
order
Optional
Position of the video within its input, from 0.
🕒 Scraped At
scrapedAt
Optional
When the row was read (UTC).
📺 Channel Info
aboutChannelInfo
Optional
The channel fields again in one object (the shape streamers/youtube-scraper rows have).
🌐 Translated Title
translatedTitle
Optional
Always null (no translation; kept so rows line up with streamers/youtube-scraper).
🌐 Translated Text
translatedText
Optional
Always null (no translation).
🎙️ Transcription
transcriptionUrl
Optional
Always null (no speech-to-text).
🤖 AI Description
aiVideoDescription
Optional
Always null (no AI text).
🤖 AI Summary
aiVideoSummary
Optional
Always null (no AI text).
💬 Caption Tracks
captionTracks
Optional
The video's caption tracks: languageCode, name, isAutoGenerated, isTranslatable and baseUrl (YouTube's timedtext link; add &fmt=srv1, vtt or json3 for a format; it expires after some hours). [] = no captions; null = YouTube's player answer wasn't read.
🎞️ Storyboard Previews
videoPreviews
Optional
YouTube's storyboard (seek preview) images, one entry per size: width, height, thumbsCount, columns and rows per sheet, intervalMs between frames, storyboardCount and the sheet urls.
🔗 Embeddable
isEmbeddable
Optional
Whether the owner lets the video play embedded on other sites (YouTube's playableInEmbed).
💬 Comments
commentsCount
Optional
Comment count, exact (10641949, not 10M: from the first comments page; a Short's from its player). As YouTube shows it (13K = 13000) only when that page doesn't answer in time; 0 when comments are turned off.