YouTube Shorts Scraper
Pricing
from $2.90 / 1,000 shorts
Scrape YouTube Shorts from channels, search queries, and direct URLs. Extract video metadata, engagement metrics, subtitles, translations, and detailed channel information.
title
Optional
translatedTitle
Optional
Localized title when translationLanguage is set and YouTube returns a genuine translation; null otherwise.
translatedText
Optional
Localized description when translationLanguage is set and a genuine translation exists; null otherwise.
type
Optional
id
Optional
url
Optional
thumbnailUrl
Optional
viewCount
Optional
date
Optional
ISO 8601 UTC upload timestamp.
likes
Optional
durationSeconds
Optional
duration
Optional
Duration as HH:MM:SS.
likesToViewsRatio
Optional
round(likes/viewCount, 4). null when either is missing or viewCount=0.
commentsTurnedOff
Optional
true=disabled, false=enabled, null=could not determine.
text
Optional
descriptionLinks
Optional
Always an array, possibly empty; never null.
subtitles
Optional
isMembersOnly
Optional
true=explicit members-only badge detected, null=unknown. Never false -- absence of a detectable badge is not proof the video is public.
isAgeRestricted
Optional
isMonetized
Optional
No public YouTube signal exists — always null. Kept for schema parity with competitor actors.
isPaidContent
Optional
true when YouTube's own 'Includes paid promotion' disclosure overlay is present in the player response; false otherwise. Only ever true when extendedVideoDetails fetched the watch page.
aiVideoDescription
Optional
Not implemented — would require running an LLM over the video, which is outside this Actor's scope (public YouTube data extraction only). Always null; kept for schema parity with competitor actors.
aiVideoSummary
Optional
Not implemented — would require running an LLM over the video, which is outside this Actor's scope (public YouTube data extraction only). Always null; kept for schema parity with competitor actors.
transcriptionUrl
Optional
Not implemented — always null. Kept for schema parity with competitor actors. Use the subtitles[] field for actual caption data.
collaborators
Optional
Always an array, possibly empty; never null.
location
Optional
This VIDEO's location (not the channel's) -- null for virtually all Shorts; only populated for live-broadcast-derived content. For the channel's declared country, see channelLocation instead.
channelName
Optional
channelUrl
Optional
channelId
Optional
channelUsername
Optional
numberOfSubscribers
Optional
isChannelVerified
Optional
channelAvatarUrl
Optional
channelBannerUrl
Optional
channelDescription
Optional
channelJoinedDate
Optional
channelTotalViews
Optional
channelTotalVideos
Optional
channelLocation
Optional
channelDescriptionLinks
Optional
Always an array, possibly empty; never null.
aboutChannelInfo
Optional
Extended, self-contained channel data (identity fields included, not just About-page-specific ones). null when extendedChannelDetails=false or About-page fetch failed. Fields are also present at top level for direct access.
inputChannelUrl
Optional
The resolved channel URL, preferring the @handle form (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd) over the channel-ID form, regardless of what format the channel was given in. null for search-query sources, which have no channel URL.
input
Optional
The raw channel handle/URL or search query exactly as provided in the input, unresolved.
fromYTUrl
Optional
fromChannelListPage
Optional
order
Optional
scrapedAt
Optional
error
Optional
note
Optional
commentsCount
Optional