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YouTube Shorts Scraper

YouTube Shorts Scraper

streamers/youtube-shorts-scraper

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Streamers

Maintained by Apify

Extract YouTube Shorts data from one or multiple YouTube channels. Get video URL, caption, timestamp, likes, dislikes, views and comments count, basic channel info, and more. This alternative YouTube API has no limits or quotas. Download the data in JSON, CSV, and Excel.

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Pricing

$35.00/month + usage

43

Monthly users

1.6k

Runs succeeded

>99%

Response time

13 hours

Last modified

a day ago

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.

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To use this Actor, you have to pay a monthly rental fee to the developer. The rent is subtracted from your prepaid usage every month after the free trial period. You also pay for the Apify platform usage.

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$35.00