Google Shorts Scraper

Scrapes Google Shorts (short-form vertical videos) for any query. Extracts the full set of shorts-vertical fields: title, channel info, duration, views/likes/comments/shares, publish date, thumbnails, tags, and more.

What this Actor collects

The Actor converts Google short-form video results into one clean JSON record per short, including video and channel identity, duration, views and engagement, publication time, thumbnails, tags, platform, and search provenance when available.

• Uses the input limits and filters below to control the crawl.
• Stores source-backed fields defined by the 69-field dataset schema.
• Omits optional fields when the source does not expose a value instead of writing nulls or fabricated placeholders.

Use cases

• Video discovery
• Publisher and topic monitoring
• Media-catalog enrichment

Input

Provide input in JSON. Fields marked required must be supplied. The Default / example column shows a schema default when one exists; otherwise it shows a documented prefill or fixture value.

Field	Type	Required	Default / example	Description
query	string	Yes	"funny cats"	The search term to find short-form videos on Google (e.g. 'funny cats', 'cooking tips')
maxItems	integer	No	50	Maximum number of short video results to retrieve
gl	string	No	"us"	Two-letter country code for localized Google results (e.g. 'us', 'in', 'uk')
hl	string	No	"en"	Two-letter language code for Google interface language (e.g. 'en', 'es', 'de')
proxyConfiguration	object	No	{"useApifyProxy":true,"apifyProxyGroups":["RESIDENTIAL"]}	Proxy settings for the scraper. Residential proxies are recommended for Google.

Example input

{
  "query": "funny cats",
  "maxItems": 10,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "GOOGLE_SERP"
    ],
    "countryCode": "US"
  },
  "gl": "us",
  "hl": "en"
}

Output

The default dataset contains one item per short-form video result. The following are the most useful fields; engagement, channel, publication, image, and media-format fields depend on the source result.

Field	Type	Description
position	integer	Position
title	string	Title
channelName	string	Channel Name
duration	string	Duration
views	string	Views
publishedAt	string	Published At
searchQuery	string	Search Query
scrapedAt	string	Scraped At
type	string	Type
description	string	Description
url	string	URL
link	string	Link
query	string	Query
resultType	string	Result Type
page	integer	Page
titleHtml	string	Title HTML

Example dataset item

This compact example is taken from local Actor storage. Long text and nested collections are shortened for documentation only.

{
  "position": 1,
  "title": "The FUNNIEST Cat Videos!",
  "duration": "0:59",
  "searchQuery": "funny cats",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-23T11:52:27.770Z",
  "type": "video",
  "url": "https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9AjIYRoW7W8",
  "link": "https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9AjIYRoW7W8",
  "resultType": "video",
  "page": 1,
  "embedUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/embed/9AjIYRoW7W8",
  "domain": "youtube.com"
}

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