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YouTube Shorts Scraper — Views, Likes & Viral Score

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Scrape YouTube Shorts by keyword, channel or hashtag, with video URL, title, views, likes, comments, hashtags and a viral score. Works with Apify MCP and the API.

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from $20.00 / 1,000 short scrapeds

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Khadin Akbar

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You can access the YouTube Shorts Scraper — Views, Likes & Viral Score 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 API & Integrations in Apify Console.

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            "title": "Channel URLs (Shorts tab)",
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YouTube Shorts Scraper — Views, Likes & Viral Score OpenAPI definition

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