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YouTube Scraper — Shorts, channel videos & search

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Scrape a YouTube channel's videos tab, its Shorts tab, or search results — videoId, title, view count, publish date, duration, thumbnail. Paginated through InnerTube, cached and paced.

Pricing

Pay per event

Rating

0.0

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Developer

Leo Nguyen

Actor stats

Bookmarked

Total users

Monthly active users

a month ago

Last modified

Categories

Videos

Social media

Open source

You can access the YouTube Scraper — Shorts, channel videos & search 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.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
5const client = new ApifyClient({
6    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
7});
8
9// Prepare Actor input
10const input = {
11    "channels": [
12        "@MrBeast"
13    ]
14};
15
16// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
17const run = await client.actor("leonguyen2808/youtube-shorts-scraper").call(input);
18
19// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
20console.log('Results from dataset');
21console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
22const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
23items.forEach((item) => {
24    console.dir(item);
25});
26
27// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

YouTube channel videos, Shorts & search scraper API in JavaScript

The Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use YouTube Scraper — Shorts, channel videos & search API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$npm install apify-client

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YouTube Scraper — Shorts, channel videos & search OpenAPI definition

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