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YouTube Short Scraper

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Every Short a channel has posted: title, views, link and thumbnail, read from the channel's own Shorts tab in the order it shows them. From $2.20 per 1,000. Exact views, likes and publish date optional; no account or API key needed.

Pricing

from $2.20 / 1,000 shorts

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Developer

Stable

Actor stats

Bookmarked

Total users

Monthly active users

19 hours ago

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What one row looks like

{
  "channelInput": "@MrBeast",
  "channelId": "UCX6OQ3DkcsbYNE6H8uQQuVA",
  "channelName": "MrBeast",
  "rank": 1,
  "videoId": "CEJXqm2eiJ0",
  "shortUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CEJXqm2eiJ0",
  "title": "What's Inside My Briefcase?",
  "viewCountText": "15M views",
  "viewCountApprox": 15000000,
  "viewCount": null,
  "likeCount": null,
  "publishedText": null,
  "statsSource": "tab-only",
  "thumbnailUrl": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/CEJXqm2eiJ0/sardefault.jpg",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-29T09:41:02+00:00"
}

15 fields. Views in the dataset tab: Shorts, Performance, All fields.

The one thing to know before you run it

The Shorts tab only ever states a rounded view count. It says 15M views, and that is all there is on that surface. So a row carries:

field	what it is
`viewCountText`	YouTube's own words — `15M views`
`viewCountApprox`	those words as a number, openly approximate
`viewCount`	empty, unless you turn on the exact pass

Exact views, likes and the publish date (in YouTube's own words, Aug 1, 2026) are available with the Exact stats switch. They cost one extra request per Short (about 430 KB each), so the switch is off by default and every row says where its figures came from in statsSource: tab-only or video-page.

Input

field	what it does
YouTube channels	one per line: `@MrBeast`, a channel link, or a `UC…` id
Maximum Shorts in total	ceiling for the whole run
Maximum per channel	the tab gives about 48 per request, so this is what a channel costs
Minimum views	drops quiet Shorts before the row is stored — never charged
Exact stats	the extra pass described above
Language / Country	`hl` and `gl`, sent with the request

What it does not do

It does not find Shorts by keyword. Give it channels; searching YouTube is our search listing's job.
It does not invent exact numbers. See above — the rounded figure is labelled as rounded, and the exact one is optional and marked.
It does not log in, so it sees what a signed-out visitor sees.

A channel with no Shorts

Finishes normally, names the channel in the run summary, and charges nothing. A handle that does not exist is reported the same way rather than failing the run.

Free plan

Everything works on the free plan: the same fields, the same filters.

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