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Youtube Shorts Scraper 2.0 Ninja

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Youtube Shorts Scraper 2.0 Ninja

Youtube Shorts Scraper 2.0 Ninja

Scrape public YouTube Shorts with stable, structured output. Extract video data, captions, hashtags, stats, and audio info from channels, Shorts URLs, or searches. Fast HTTP mode with browser fallback. Built for automation, analytics, and AI workflows.

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Joca

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YouTube Shorts Scraper 2.0 Ninja 🥷

High-performance Apify Actor for scraping publicly available YouTube Shorts with a stable and predictable output schema.
Designed for automation, analytics, and AI workflows.

Supports Channels, Search Queries, and Direct Shorts URLs.


Key Features

  • Fast Mode (Default)
    Lightweight HTTP scraping (no browser) for maximum speed, low cost, and reliable daily auto-tests.

  • 🌐 Browser Mode (Fallback)
    Playwright-based browser automation for hard-to-scrape or blocked scenarios.

  • 📊 Stable Structured Output
    Consistent dataset schema across all items, ideal for pipelines and AI ingestion.

  • 🛑 Strict Limits
    Fully respects maxItems — never scrapes more than requested.

  • 🛡️ Proxy Support
    Compatible with Apify Proxy (Residential & Datacenter).


Input

FieldTypeDescription
channelUrlsArrayYouTube channel Shorts URLs (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/@MrBeast/shorts).
searchQueriesArrayKeywords to search for Shorts (e.g. "funny cats").
shortUrlsArrayDirect URLs to individual Shorts.
maxItemsIntegerMaximum number of Shorts to extract.
modeStringfast (default) or browser.
proxyConfigurationObjectApify proxy configuration (optional).

At least one input source (channelUrls, searchQueries, or shortUrls) is required.


Output

Results are stored in the default Apify dataset.

Each item follows a stable schema:

{
"id": "12345abc",
"url": "https://www.youtube.com/shorts/12345abc",
"caption": "Amazing Trick Shot!",
"hashtags": ["#shorts", "#trickshot"]
}