YouTube Shorts Scraper - Channels, Hashtags & Details
Pricing
from $3.00 / 1,000 youtube short results
Scrape YouTube Shorts from direct Short URLs, channel handles, channel URLs, and hashtags. Get titles, URLs, thumbnails, duration, views, likes, comments, publish dates, author handles, subscriber counts, channel IDs, and profile metadata.
Enter one or more YouTube channel handles, names, or URLs. Examples: youtube, @adidas, https://www.youtube.com/@zara/shorts. Ignored when hashtags are provided.
Enter hashtags with or without #. When provided, hashtags take precedence over channels.
Enter specific YouTube Shorts URLs to scrape directly, without loading a channel or hashtag listing. Direct URLs take precedence over hashtags and channels.
Maximum number of Shorts to return for each channel or hashtag. Capped at 100 per source to keep runs predictable. The default sample is intentionally small so the first Apify test run finishes quickly.
Enabled by default. Uses fast HTTP extraction to collect available likes, views, publish date, description, and author metadata. Disable only for a faster listing-only run with fewer fields.
Disabled by default for speed. Enable it to open Shorts in a browser when HTTP extraction is missing important fields such as comment count. This is slower but can improve completeness.
Disabled by default for faster sample runs. Enable it to visit each unique creator channel page for subscriber count, channel video count, banner, avatar, description, and social links.
How many browser fallback pages can run at once. Keep 1-2 for stability; higher values are capped at 5. HTTP work uses the separate controls below.
How many channel or hashtag sources are collected in parallel by the fast HTTP engine. Defaults to 2 and is capped at 10.
How many Shorts are enriched in parallel per source by the HTTP engine. Defaults to 5 and is capped at 20.
Optional graceful runtime cap in seconds. The sample run is prefilled with 240 so Apify tests stop cleanly before a 300-second timeout. Set 0 to use the Apify run timeout.
Proxy settings used for HTTP recovery and browser fallback. Apify Proxy is used by default on the Apify platform.
{ "useApifyProxy": true}Auto tries direct HTTP first and uses the configured proxy only for recovery. Always sends HTTP requests through the proxy. Never disables proxy use.
Auto enriches Shorts directly first for lower latency. Proxy first can help when the Actor's direct YouTube route is repeatedly blocked.