📱 YouTube Shorts Scraper

Collect complete data from any YouTube channel's Shorts library, without writing a single line of code. Extract views, likes, publish dates, descriptions, hashtags, music credits, comments count, and full channel info for every Short. Works across multiple channels in one run.

The YouTube Shorts Scraper pulls up to 1,000,000 Shorts per channel with 35 data fields per item, sortable by newest, most popular, or oldest, with optional date filtering - all without a YouTube API key or browser.

Whether you're tracking competitor content, analyzing engagement trends, building a Shorts dataset for research, or monitoring a creator's publishing schedule, this tool handles it automatically. Search for terms like "YouTube Shorts data export," "collect Shorts metadata without API," "bulk Shorts scraper CSV," and "YouTube channel Shorts analyzer" and you'll find exactly what you need here.

✨ What Does It Do

• 📊 View Count and Likes - track engagement numbers for every Short to identify your best-performing content formats or benchmark against competitors
• 📅 Publish Dates - monitor how frequently a channel posts and build historical timelines of Shorts activity
• 🏷️ Hashtags and Descriptions - extract all hashtags and description text to analyze content strategy and trending topics
• 👤 Channel Collaborations - identify creator mentions and collaborations tagged in Short descriptions to map influencer networks
• 🎵 Music Credits - collect song, artist, and album info when available to analyze audio trends in viral Shorts
• 💬 Comments Count - measure audience engagement per Short to find content that drives the most conversation
• 🗂️ Content Category - capture YouTube's assigned category (Entertainment, Education, Music, etc.) to segment your dataset by content type - a field missing from most competitor tools
• 📺 Full Channel Profile - get subscriber count, total views, join date, location, and verified status alongside every Short

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: aiSummary, category, channelAvatarUrl, channelBannerUrl, channelDescription, channelDescriptionLinks, channelHandle, channelId, channelJoinedDate, channelLocation, channelName, channelTotalVideos, channelTotalViews, channelUrl, collaborators, commentsCount, commentsTurnedOff, date, descriptionLinks, duration, hashtags, isAgeRestricted, isChannelVerified, isUnlisted, likes, musicCredits, numberOfSubscribers, order, scrapedAt, text, thumbnailUrl, title, url, videoId, viewCount. All 35 field names come from a real production run, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the YouTube Shorts Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Configure the input fields in the form (or paste a JSON), then set maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

⚠️ Disclaimer

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by YouTube, Google LLC, or any of their subsidiaries. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.## 🗃️ What YouTube Shorts Data Can You Extract?

YouTube Shorts Scraper can gather any kind of data from YouTube channels, such as:

🖼️ Thumbnail URL	🆔 Video ID	📝 Title
🔗 Short URL	👁️ View count	❤️ Like count
📅 Publish date	⏱️ Duration	🗂️ Category
📄 Description text	🏷️ Hashtags	🔗 Description links
👤 Collaborators	🎵 Music credits	🤖 AI summary
💬 Comments count	🚫 Comments off	🔞 Age restricted
🔒 Unlisted	🔢 Order index	📺 Channel name
🔖 Channel handle	🆔 Channel ID	👥 Subscribers
✅ Verified	👁️ Channel total views	🎬 Channel total videos
📝 Channel description	📅 Channel joined date	📍 Channel location
🔗 Channel links	🌐 Channel URL	🖼️ Channel avatar
🖼️ Channel banner	🕐 Scraped timestamp	🔴 Error (if any)

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