YouTube Scraper — Shorts, Videos & Search
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Shorts, channel videos and search results from YouTube — videoId, title, view count, publish date, duration, thumbnail — paginated through InnerTube, cached and paced.
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You can access the YouTube Scraper — Shorts, 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 Integrations settings in Apify Console.
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