YouTube Shorts Scraper: Search, Hashtags & Channels (Fast)

Scrape YouTube Shorts by keyword search, #hashtag or channel: views, likes, comments count, exact upload date, duration, hashtags, description, plus channel stats on every row (subscribers, total views, video count, country). No browser, so it's fast and cheap. From $2.70 per 1,000 Shorts in full detail, $1 per 1,000 in fast mode (Starter plan prices). Removed or private Shorts are listed and cost nothing.

Why this one

	This Actor	Typical Shorts scrapers
Search	Real YouTube Shorts-only search (the same filter as the YouTube app), keywords or #hashtags	Generic search, then filtering
Speed	YouTube's lightweight app API, no browser: dozens of Shorts per request	Browser page loads
Fast mode	Title + views straight from result pages, about 3× cheaper	Full price for every row
Channel stats	Subscribers, exact total views, video count, country on every row, fetched once per channel	Separate actor or missing
Scheduled runs	Only new Shorts: a daily run delivers and bills only Shorts it hasn't sent you before	Re-delivers and re-bills everything
Errors	Removed/private/blocked Shorts come back with a reasonCode, never billed	Missing rows or failed runs

What it does

• Search Shorts by keyword (iphone 17 review) or hashtag (#lifehacks), sorted by relevance, date, views or rating, with upload-date filters.
• Channel Shorts: paste @handles or channel URLs and get each channel's newest Shorts (up to 5,000 per channel).
• Single Shorts: paste youtube.com/shorts/… links for full detail.
• Two detail levels:
  • Full (default): exact publish date, likes, comments count, views, duration, tags, hashtags, description and links, thumbnail, channel stats.
  • Fast: title and views read straight from search and channel pages. Ideal for trend tracking across many hashtags.
• Date filters: publishedAfter / publishedBefore as dates or relative (7 days, 3 months).
• Only new Shorts: turn it on and schedule the run (daily trend monitoring without duplicates).
• Need regular videos too? Set Search returns to Regular videos, or use our YouTube Scraper.

Pricing

Pay per result, no compute fee on top. Free-tier prices below; Starter and higher plans pay less.

Event	Price	When
Short (full)	$0.003	One Short with full detail
Short (fast)	$0.0012	One Short read from a search or channel page
Channel profile	$0.002	One channel row (channel-only mode)
Error rows	free	Removed, private or blocked Shorts

Set Maximum cost per run in Run options and the Actor stops there cleanly.

Input examples

Top 100 Shorts for a hashtag, uploaded this week, fast mode:

{ "searchQueries": ["#lifehacks"], "maxResults": 100, "searchUploadDate": "week", "detail": "fast" }

Newest 30 Shorts from two channels, full detail:

{ "startUrls": ["@mkbhd", "https://www.youtube.com/@MrBeast"], "maxResults": 30 }

Daily monitoring of new Shorts for a keyword (schedule it):

{ "searchQueries": ["air fryer recipe"], "searchSort": "date", "maxResults": 50, "onlyNewVideos": true }

Output

One row per Short: id, url, title, viewCount, likes, commentsCount, date, duration, durationSeconds, hashtags, text (description), isShort, thumbnailUrl, channelName, channelUrl, numberOfSubscribers, channelTotalViews, and more. Export as JSON, CSV, Excel, or pull it from the API, n8n, Make or Zapier.

Good to know

• Public data only. No login, no cookies.
• Runs that hit YouTube's limits retry on a fresh route automatically (direct → datacenter → residential only when needed).
• AI agents can call this Actor through Apify's MCP server and agent payments.