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YouTube Shorts Scraper

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YouTube Shorts Scraper

YouTube Shorts Scraper

Scrape YouTube Shorts from any channel or search query. Get titles, view counts, thumbnails, video IDs, and channel info. Fast HTTP-only extraction, no browser needed. No login required.

Pricing

Pay per usage

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Developer

kane liu

kane liu

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Monthly active users

20 hours ago

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Fast, lightweight YouTube Shorts scraper. Extract Shorts from any channel or search query. Pure HTTP extraction — no browser, no login, no API key required.

Features

  • Channel Shorts: Get all Shorts from any YouTube channel with pagination
  • Search Shorts: Find Shorts by keyword
  • Fast: HTTP-only extraction, no headless browser overhead
  • Deduplicated: Results automatically deduplicated by video ID

Output Fields

FieldTypeDescription
videoIdstringYouTube video ID
titlestringShort title
urlstringFull Shorts URL
viewCountintegerView count (parsed from "6.4M views" format)
viewCountTextstringRaw view count text
channelNamestringChannel name
channelIdstringChannel ID
channelUrlstringChannel URL
thumbnailUrlstringThumbnail image URL (1080x1920)

Input Examples

Get Shorts from a channel

{
"channelUrls": ["https://www.youtube.com/@MrBeast"],
"maxResults": 50
}

Search for Shorts

{
"searchQueries": ["cooking tips", "fitness motivation"],
"maxResults": 20
}

Multiple channels

{
"channelUrls": [
"https://www.youtube.com/@MrBeast",
"https://www.youtube.com/@PewDiePie"
],
"maxResults": 100
}

Cost Estimate

  • ~100 Shorts per compute unit (channel scraping)
  • ~50 Shorts per compute unit (search)

This actor extracts publicly available data from YouTube. No login or authentication is used.