Youtube Shorts Scraper

Pricing

$14.99/month + usage

Youtube Shorts Scraper

The Youtube Shorts Scraper extracts Shorts data including titles, views, likes, comments, creators, hashtags, and video links. Get clean JSON or CSV for trend analysis, content research, audience insights, and automation workflows at scale.

Pricing

$14.99/month + usage

Rating

0.0

(0)

Developer

Scrapio

Maintained by Community

Actor stats

Bookmarked

Total users

Monthly active users

12 hours ago

Last modified

Categories

Lead generation

Social media

Videos

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

OpenAPI is a standard for designing and describing RESTful APIs, allowing developers to define API structure, endpoints, and data formats in a machine-readable way. It simplifies API development, integration, and documentation.

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By defining machine-readable API specifications, OpenAPI allows AI models like GPTs to understand and use varied data sources, improving accuracy. This accelerates development, reduces errors, and provides context-aware responses, making OpenAPI a core component for AI applications.

You can download the OpenAPI definitions for Youtube Shorts Scraper from the options below:

OpenAPI.json

If you’d like to learn more about how OpenAPI powers GPTs, read our blog post.

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