# Youtube Full Channel Shorts Videos Scraper 📺 (Rental) -  cheap (`scrapestorm/youtube-full-channel-shorts-scraper-rental---fast-cheap`) Actor

Alternative YouTube API for unlimited access: 🧑‍💻 Crawl and scrape YouTube channels to extract and download details such as the title 📺,  view count 👀, and Short URL 📊 without any limits or quotas 🚫

- **URL**: https://apify.com/scrapestorm/youtube-full-channel-shorts-scraper-rental---fast-cheap.md
- **Developed by:** [Storm_Scraper](https://apify.com/scrapestorm) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media, Videos, E-commerce
- **Stats:** 28 total users, 0 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 2 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.00005 / actor start

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

### 🎥 YouTube Shorts Videos Data Scraper

The YouTube Shorts Data Scraper is a powerful tool designed to extract detailed data from specific YouTube channels. By providing the URL of a channel, you can retrieve:

```
Short Titles 📛  
Short URLs 🌐  
Thumbnail URLs 🖼️  
Channel Name 📺  
Date of Publication 📅  
View Count (both text and numeric) 👁️‍🗨️  
Short Duration ⏱️  
Additional Information about the short and the channel  
```

This scraper allows you to collect key data points from YouTube channels without hitting any limits or quotas.

### 🛠️ How to Use

EEnter Data: Input the bulk URL of the YouTube channel you wish to scrape, along with the maximum number of items (shorts) to retrieve approximately.
Start Scraping: Click the "Start" button to begin the scraping process. The scraper will navigate to the channel, gather short data, and store it.
Download Your Data: After the extraction process is complete, you can download the results in various formats such as JSON, CSV, XML, HTML Table, etc.

### 💸 Pricing

This scraper operates on a pay-per-month basis at a cost of $9.99/month.

### Related Actors

If you're interested in other YouTube scraping solutions, check out these related actors:

- [💬 YouTube Comments Scraper](https://apify.com/scrapestorm/youtube-comments-scraper---rental-fast-and-cheap)
- [🏎 YouTube Scraper (By Keyword) ](https://apify.com/scrapestorm/youtube)
- [🔴 Youtube Channel Scraper](https://apify.com/scrapestorm/youtube-channel-scraper)

***

### 🔑 YouTube Channel Scraper Input

The YouTube Channel Data Scraper requires a specific input format. Provide a JSON object with the URL of the YouTube channel and the max_items field to specify the number of videos you want to scrape.

```
{
    "channel_link": "https://www.youtube.com/@nike",
    "max_items": 120
}

```

### 📊 YouTube Scraper Data Output

The YouTube Channel Data Scraper will extract the following information for each video and store it in the Apify dataset.
After the run is complete, you can download the data in various formats (JSON, CSV, XML, RSS, or HTML Table).

```
{
  "Title": "Alphonso Davies | What Are You Working On? (E23) | Nike",
  "Published Time": "2 years ago",
  "View Count": "50,276 views",
  "Length": "4:57",
  "URL": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIl61LjTgjQ",
  "Description": "When few cared to claim it, Alphonso Davies took it upon himself to build the reputation of the Canadian soccer program at a global level. Off the pitch he continues to make an impact with...",
  "Thumbnail URL": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/eIl61LjTgjQ/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEbCKgBEF5IVfKriqkDDggBFQAAiEIYAXABwAEG&rs=AOn4CLDlqVKvL1l2u00z-ySstNhm8zt62g",
  "Verified": "Verified"
}

```

# Actor input Schema

## `channelUrls` (type: `array`):

List of YouTube channel URLs to scrape. Each channel is scraped separately, up to maxItemsPerUrl items per channel.

Accepted formats:
• https://www.youtube.com/@nike
• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxxxxxx

The /videos or /shorts suffix is added automatically based on the selected content type.

## `contentType` (type: `string`):

Choose 'Videos' to scrape the channel's regular Videos tab, or 'Shorts' to scrape the channel's Shorts tab.

## `maxItemsPerUrl` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of videos/shorts to collect per channel URL. The scraper stops when this limit is reached or all items are loaded.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "channelUrls": [
    "https://www.youtube.com/@nike",
    "https://www.youtube.com/@puma"
  ],
  "contentType": "videos",
  "maxItemsPerUrl": 50
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `overview` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "channelUrls": [
        "https://www.youtube.com/@nike",
        "https://www.youtube.com/@puma"
    ],
    "contentType": "videos",
    "maxItemsPerUrl": 50
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("scrapestorm/youtube-full-channel-shorts-scraper-rental---fast-cheap").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "channelUrls": [
        "https://www.youtube.com/@nike",
        "https://www.youtube.com/@puma",
    ],
    "contentType": "videos",
    "maxItemsPerUrl": 50,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("scrapestorm/youtube-full-channel-shorts-scraper-rental---fast-cheap").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "channelUrls": [
    "https://www.youtube.com/@nike",
    "https://www.youtube.com/@puma"
  ],
  "contentType": "videos",
  "maxItemsPerUrl": 50
}' |
apify call scrapestorm/youtube-full-channel-shorts-scraper-rental---fast-cheap --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,scrapestorm/youtube-full-channel-shorts-scraper-rental---fast-cheap"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/jEaDx2LWwNmBAv71h/builds/Q8mRNm1FpdkgKf82j/openapi.json