Youtube Shorts Scraper

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$25.00/month + usage

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Youtube Shorts Scraper

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YouTube Shorts Scraper is an Apify Actor that scrapes video data and comments from the Shorts section of a YouTube channel. It extracts key details such as video title, URL, view count, streaming time (in days), hashtags, description, comments count, and individual comments with user IDs.

Pricing

$25.00/month + usage

Rating

5.0

(1)

Developer

scraping automation

Maintained by Community

Actor stats

Bookmarked

Total users

Monthly active users

13 days ago

Last modified

Categories

Social media

Videos

Automation

You can access the Youtube Shorts Scraper 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.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

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Youtube Shorts Scraper OpenAPI definition

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