# YouTube Trending Videos Shorts Scraper - Low-cost💲🔥#️⃣📺 (`delectable_incubator/youtube-trending-videos-shorts-scraper-low-cost`) Actor

🔥 Scrape YouTube Trending Videos and Shorts by hashtag. Extract titles, views, likes, publish dates, channel names, video URLs, Shorts URLs, thumbnails, hashtags & more. Ideal for trend discovery, influencer research, content strategy, AI datasets and social media analytics.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/delectable\_incubator/youtube-trending-videos-shorts-scraper-low-cost.md
- **Developed by:** [Prime Scrape](https://apify.com/delectable_incubator) (community)
- **Categories:** Videos, Social media, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.00005 / actor start

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md):

```bash
npm install apify-client
```

In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md):

```bash
pip install apify-client
```

In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md):

````bash
# MacOS / Linux
curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash
# Windows
irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex
```bash

In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md).

If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

<p align="center">
<img src="https://i.ibb.co/jkNS73wX/readme.png" alt="YouTube Hashtag Shorts & Videos Scraper" width="100%">
</p>

---

### 📺 YouTube Hashtag Shorts & Videos Scraper | Bulk Hashtag Scraper | Apify Actor #️⃣

### 🚀 Extract YouTube Hashtag Videos & Shorts in Seconds (No Code)

The **YouTube Hashtag Shorts & Videos Scraper** is a powerful, scalable and SEO-optimized Apify Actor designed to extract **YouTube videos and Shorts from hashtag pages** in bulk. Simply provide multiple hashtag keywords, choose whether to scrape **All Videos** or **Shorts only**, and export structured datasets for trend analysis, competitor research, AI datasets, content discovery and social media intelligence.

---

## 🔥 Why Choose This YouTube Hashtag Scraper?

✔ Best YouTube Hashtag Scraper on Apify

✔ Supports Bulk Hashtag Keywords

✔ Supports Videos & Shorts

✔ Fast & scalable extraction engine

✔ Clean JSON / CSV / Excel output

✔ Perfect for creators, marketers & researchers

✔ No coding required

---

## 🎯 What This Scraper Does

This Apify Actor extracts YouTube content directly from hashtag pages.

#### 📌 Core Features

✅ Scrape YouTube hashtag pages

✅ Bulk hashtag keyword scraping

✅ Scrape Videos or Shorts

✅ Automatic pagination

✅ Extract video titles

✅ Extract video URLs

✅ Extract thumbnails

✅ Extract video IDs

✅ Extract view counts

✅ Export clean structured datasets

---

## ⚡ Input Configuration

### 🔥 BULK HASHTAG MODE (SEO BOOST 🚀)

````

{
"hashtagKeywords": \[
"makeup",
"football",
"gaming",
"travel",
"fitness",
"technology",
"crypto",
"cars"
],
"contentType": "shorts",
"maxItemsPerKeyword": 100
}

```

Simply add as many hashtag keywords as you want. The scraper automatically processes every hashtag separately.

---

## 📊 Extracted Video Data

| Field | Description |
|------|-------------|
| id | Result index |
| title | Video or Shorts title |
| videoId | YouTube video ID |
| videoUrl | Direct YouTube URL |
| thumbnailUrl | Thumbnail image |
| viewCount | View count |
| contentType | Video or Shorts |
| hashtag | Source hashtag keyword |

---

## 💡 Use Cases

Perfect for:

📈 Trending hashtag monitoring

📺 YouTube Shorts research

🎥 Video discovery

🔍 Competitor analysis

📊 Social media analytics

🤖 AI training datasets

💡 Content inspiration

📱 Creator research

🌍 Marketing intelligence

---

## 🚀 Key Features

⚡ Bulk hashtag keyword scraping

📺 Videos & Shorts support

📌 Smart pagination

🧠 Clean structured datasets

📊 High-speed extraction

🔁 Automatic retry system

💾 Export-ready data

⚙️ Enterprise cloud execution

---

## 📤 Supported Export Formats

✔ JSON

✔ CSV

✔ Excel (XLSX)

✔ XML

✔ HTML

---

## 📦 Example Output

```

\[
{
"id": 1,
"title": "Lil bros standing on business 💀 #shorts",
"videoId": "mQZrJku2P2M",
"videoUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQZrJku2P2M",
"thumbnailUrl": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/mQZrJku2P2M/hqdefault.jpg",
"viewCount": "7,291,126 views",
"contentType": "Shorts",
"hashtag": "football"
}
]

````

---

## 🔥 Why This is the BEST YouTube Hashtag Scraper on Apify?

✔ Optimized for Apify Marketplace SEO

✔ Supports Bulk Hashtag Keywords

✔ Supports Videos & Shorts

✔ Enterprise-grade performance

✔ Reliable extraction engine

✔ Clean structured datasets

✔ Cloud scalable

✔ Perfect for creators, agencies, marketers and researchers

---

## 💸 Pricing

This scraper runs on a **pay-per-result pricing model**.

You only pay for successfully extracted records.

💳 **Price:** **$0.59 / 1,000 results**

---

## ❓ FAQ

#### Can I scrape multiple hashtags?

Yes. Bulk Hashtag mode lets you scrape unlimited hashtag keywords in a single run.

#### Can I scrape only Shorts?

Yes. Set `"contentType": "shorts"`.

#### Can I scrape both Videos and Shorts?

Yes. Set `"contentType": "all"`.

#### Is pagination automatic?

Yes. The scraper automatically continues until the requested limit is reached for every hashtag.

#### Can I export the data?

Yes. JSON, CSV, Excel, XML and HTML are supported.

#### Is coding required?

No. This is a 100% no-code Apify Actor.

---

## ⚠️ Disclaimer

This tool is not affiliated with YouTube or Google. It is an independent data extraction solution.

---

## 🔗 Related Actors

We are building the complete **PrimeScrape YouTube Intelligence Suite** featuring YouTube videos, Shorts, hashtags, playlists, transcripts, comments, community posts, channels and creator analytics.

More premium YouTube scraping tools are coming soon.

---

## 🌍 PrimeScrape Ecosystem

Built for large-scale data extraction, automation, AI datasets and market intelligence.

📺 YouTube Intelligence

#️⃣ Hashtag Analytics

📈 Trend Monitoring

🤖 AI Training Datasets

📊 Creator Analytics

⚙️ Automation Pipelines

🌍 Enterprise Data Collection

---

## 📬 Support

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Leave a review if you enjoy this scraper.

📩 Need a custom scraper, enterprise integration or private dataset?

Contact **PrimeScrape** directly through Apify.

# Actor input Schema

## `hashtagKeywords` (type: `array`):

List of hashtag keywords to scrape from YouTube. Each keyword is scraped separately, up to maxItemsPerKeyword items per keyword.
## `contentType` (type: `string`):

Choose 'All' to scrape the regular hashtag page (videos and shorts mixed), or 'Shorts' to scrape only the Shorts tab for the hashtag.
## `maxItemsPerKeyword` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of videos/shorts to scrape per hashtag keyword.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "hashtagKeywords": [
    "fashion"
  ],
  "contentType": "shorts",
  "maxItemsPerKeyword": 100
}
````

# Actor output Schema

## `overview` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "hashtagKeywords": [
        "fashion"
    ],
    "contentType": "shorts",
    "maxItemsPerKeyword": 100
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("delectable_incubator/youtube-trending-videos-shorts-scraper-low-cost").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "hashtagKeywords": ["fashion"],
    "contentType": "shorts",
    "maxItemsPerKeyword": 100,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("delectable_incubator/youtube-trending-videos-shorts-scraper-low-cost").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "hashtagKeywords": [
    "fashion"
  ],
  "contentType": "shorts",
  "maxItemsPerKeyword": 100
}' |
apify call delectable_incubator/youtube-trending-videos-shorts-scraper-low-cost --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=delectable_incubator/youtube-trending-videos-shorts-scraper-low-cost",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
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        "version": "0.0",
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    "servers": [
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                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
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                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
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                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
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                "responses": {
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                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
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                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
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                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK",
                        "content": {
                            "application/json": {
                                "schema": {
                                    "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
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                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
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                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
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                "parameters": [
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                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
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                "responses": {
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    "components": {
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                "type": "object",
                "required": [
                    "hashtagKeywords"
                ],
                "properties": {
                    "hashtagKeywords": {
                        "title": "Hashtag keywords to scrape 🏷️",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "List of hashtag keywords to scrape from YouTube. Each keyword is scraped separately, up to maxItemsPerKeyword items per keyword.",
                        "default": [
                            "fashion"
                        ],
                        "items": {
                            "type": "string"
                        }
                    },
                    "contentType": {
                        "title": "Content type 🎬",
                        "enum": [
                            "all",
                            "shorts"
                        ],
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Choose 'All' to scrape the regular hashtag page (videos and shorts mixed), or 'Shorts' to scrape only the Shorts tab for the hashtag.",
                        "default": "shorts"
                    },
                    "maxItemsPerKeyword": {
                        "title": "Maximum items per keyword 📊",
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Maximum number of videos/shorts to scrape per hashtag keyword.",
                        "default": 100
                    }
                }
            },
            "runsResponseSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
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                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
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                                "format": "date-time",
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                            "status": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "READY"
                            },
                            "meta": {
                                "type": "object",
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                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "API"
                                    },
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                                        "type": "string",
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```