YouTube Shorts Scraper

Extract YouTube Shorts by keyword or from any channel, without an API key and without the quota limits of the official YouTube Data API.

Use it to find the Shorts that went viral in your niche, to track what competitors and creators post, to research hooks and hashtags, or to collect short-video data for analysis.

• Two ways in. Search Shorts by keyword, or list all Shorts of a channel.
• The numbers that matter. Exact views, likes, comment count, publish date, hashtags and the channel of every Short.
• No API key, no login and no proxy setup. Press Start and get data.
• Low price. $1 per 1,000 Shorts.

How to use it

1. Click Try for free.
2. Type keywords in Search keywords, or paste channels in Channels, or both.
3. Click Start, then download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel.

Input examples

Shorts about two topics from this month:

{
    "searchQueries": ["cooking hacks", "air fryer recipes"],
    "uploadDate": "month",
    "maxItems": 200
}

The latest Shorts of two creators:

{
    "channelUrls": ["@MrBeast", "https://www.youtube.com/@NicksKitchen"],
    "maxItemsPerQuery": 50
}

Output example

{
    "type": "video",
    "videoId": "hE6xmg9Mmkc",
    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hE6xmg9Mmkc",
    "title": "Tomato Slicing Hack",
    "viewCount": 82360339,
    "likeCount": 1365156,
    "commentCount": 4189,
    "durationSeconds": 17,
    "publishedAt": "2025-04-16T16:01:44Z",
    "isShort": true,
    "description": "#tomato #chef #shorts",
    "hashtags": ["#tomato", "#shorts", "#chef"],
    "channelName": "Nick's Kitchen",
    "channelId": "UC2HNqPgeKtVr2gZmLeeIk3g",
    "channelHandle": "@NicksKitchen",
    "channelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2HNqPgeKtVr2gZmLeeIk3g",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hE6xmg9Mmkc/hqdefault.jpg",
    "searchQuery": "cooking hacks",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-24T11:26:35Z"
}

How much does it cost?

You pay per saved result: $1.00 per 1,000 Shorts. There is no start fee and no monthly rental. Add full details does not change the price.

Run	Results	Cost
100 Shorts for one keyword	100	$0.10
500 Shorts of a channel	500	$0.50

Set a maximum charge per run in the run options and the Actor stops when it is reached.

Limits you should know

• About 100 Shorts per keyword. YouTube stops the Shorts search list at roughly 100 to 140 results. Changing the sort order or upload date adds only a few more. To get more, use several related keywords.
• No "most viewed" sort. YouTube returns nothing for Shorts sorted by views. Sort the downloaded table by viewCount instead.
• Upload date filters shrink the list a lot. With "This week" YouTube often returns only about a dozen Shorts for a keyword, and once in a while none.
• Without full details, Shorts have only a title and a view count. The view count is then rounded by YouTube ("40M"). Keep Add full details on for exact numbers and the channel.
• Full details make runs slower. The Actor opens every Short, so 100 Shorts take about 2 minutes, compared with about 10 seconds without it.
• Channel Shorts come newest first. YouTube does not offer another order for a channel.
• Duplicates across keywords are kept. Each result has a searchQuery field that says which keyword found it.

Related Actors

• YouTube Channel Videos Scraper: every upload of a channel.
• YouTube Search Scraper: videos by keyword, upload date and sort order.
• YouTube Scraper: video details, comments with replies and channel profiles in one Actor.

FAQ

Is it legal? The Actor collects only data that YouTube shows publicly to every visitor. Results can contain personal data such as usernames. Make sure you have a legitimate reason to process it, as required by the GDPR and similar laws.

Something is broken or missing? Open a ticket in the Issues tab. Issues are usually answered within a day.