YouTube Shorts Scraper : Views, Likes & Downloads
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from $8.50 / 1,000 results
Extract every Short from any channel by name, handle, or URL, with views, likes, comments, upload date & hashtags, plus optional video downloads.
The YouTube channel to scrape Shorts from. Accepts a full channel URL (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/@MrBeast), a handle (@MrBeast), a channel ID (UCX6OQ3DkcsbYNE6H8uQQuVA), or a plain channel name (best-effort lookup).
Maximum number of Shorts to collect from the channel, starting with the most recent. Set to 0 to fetch all available Shorts (can be slow for large channels).
If enabled, fetches full details for each Short (view/like/comment counts, upload date, description, tags). This is slower since it makes one extra request per Short. Automatically enabled when downloading videos.
If enabled, downloads the actual video file for each Short and stores it in the run's Key-Value Store. A direct download link is added to each dataset item.
Preferred quality/format for downloaded videos. Only used when 'Download videos' is enabled.
Proxy settings used to access YouTube. Using Apify Proxy is strongly recommended to avoid rate limiting/blocking.
{ "useApifyProxy": true}Optionally deliver scraped Shorts into a connector you have authorized — Notion, Slack, Linear, Airtable, Jira, GitHub, or any MCP-compatible connector. Leave empty to only save results to the dataset.
How to deliver to the connector: 'summary' (one call covering every scraped Short), 'chunked' (split many Shorts across a few calls/pages so services like Notion never time out), 'perShort' (one call per individual Short), or 'none' (save to dataset only).
Name of the tool to call on the connector (e.g. 'create_page' for Notion, 'send_message' for Slack, 'create_issue' for Jira/GitHub). If unsure, run once with a connector selected — the log lists the connector's available tools.
Arguments passed to the connector tool. String values support {placeholders}. In 'summary'/'chunked' mode: {channelName}, {channelUrl}, {shortCount}, {shortsText} (formatted list of Shorts), {message} (the rendered template below); 'chunked' also gives {part}/{partCount} (1-based part number and total — put these in a page title, e.g. 'Shorts {channelName} (part {part}/{partCount})'). In 'perShort' mode: {channelName}, {channelUrl}, {id}, {title}, {url}, {viewCount}, {likeCount}, {commentCount}, {uploadDate}, {duration}, {description}, {hashtags}, {downloadStatus}, {videoDownloadUrl}, {thumbnailUrl}, {message}. Example for Slack: {"channel": "#shorts", "text": "{message}"}.
{}Optional template rendered and exposed as the {message} placeholder in the tool arguments. Summary/chunked example: 'Shorts from {channelName} ({shortCount} total):\n\n{shortsText}'. Per-Short example: '{title} — {url} ({viewCount} views, {likeCount} likes)'.