YouTube Shorts Scraper: Search, Channels, Views & Likes

YouTube Shorts Scraper

Scrape YouTube Shorts from any search term or channel for $0.50 per 1,000 Shorts, with no start fee and no login or API key. Every Short comes with:

• views, likes, comment count, exact publish time and duration
• the full description with its links, hashtags, category and tags
• the channel's subscribers, total views, video count, country, joined date, links and avatar

Sources:

• Search terms, using YouTube's own Shorts search filter, with upload date (last hour, today, this week…) and sort order (relevance, views, date, rating)
• Channels: their whole Shorts tab, newest, popular or oldest first, stopping at a date if you set one
• Single Shorts from any youtube.com/shorts/ link or id

What people use it for

• Find viral Shorts in a niche: search a topic, sort by views, filter to this week
• Track creators and competitors: every Short a channel posts, with views and likes, on a schedule
• Influencer research: channels posting Shorts on a topic, with subscriber counts
• Datasets for AI and trend analysis: titles, hashtags and engagement at scale

How to use it

1. Add search terms (e.g. cooking hacks) and/or channels (@MrBeast, https://www.youtube.com/@MrBeast/shorts).
2. Set Maximum Shorts per search term or channel (default 50).
3. Optionally filter by upload date, sort order, or "only Shorts published on or after" a date (2026-01-31 or 7 days).
4. Run it. Export as JSON, CSV or Excel, or call the API.

What you get: one row per Short

Every row has the same fields, shown here on a sample video (on a Short, type is "shorts"):

{
  "title": "Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Video) (4K Remaster)",
  "id": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "type": "video",
  "thumbnailUrl": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dQw4w9WgXcQ/hqdefault.jpg",
  "viewCount": 1821960823,
  "likes": 19440936,
  "commentsCount": 2457966,
  "date": "2009-10-25T06:57:33Z",
  "dateText": "Oct 24, 2009",
  "duration": "00:03:33",
  "durationSeconds": 213,
  "text": "The official video for “Never Gonna Give You Up” by Rick Astley. ...",
  "descriptionLinks": [{ "url": "https://linktr.ee/rickastleynever", "text": "https://linktr.ee/rickastleynever" }],
  "hashtags": ["#RickAstley", "#NeverGonnaGiveYouUp", "#OfficialMusicVideo"],
  "location": null,
  "category": "Music",
  "keywords": ["rick astley", "Never Gonna Give You Up", "nggyu", "rick roll"],
  "isLive": false,
  "commentsTurnedOff": false,
  "isMembersOnly": false,
  "isAgeRestricted": false,
  "isUnlisted": false,
  "collaborators": null,
  "channelName": "Rick Astley",
  "channelId": "UCuAXFkgsw1L7xaCfnd5JJOw",
  "channelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/@RickAstleyYT",
  "channelUsername": "RickAstleyYT",
  "numberOfSubscribers": 4550000,
  "isChannelVerified": true,
  "channelAvatarUrl": "https://yt3.googleusercontent.com/...",
  "channelBannerUrl": "https://yt3.googleusercontent.com/...",
  "channelDescription": "Rick Astley’s Swinging Christmas 2026 🎄 ...",
  "channelDescriptionLinks": [{ "text": "Website", "url": "https://www.rickastley.co.uk/" }],
  "channelLocation": "United Kingdom",
  "channelJoinedDate": "2015-02-01",
  "channelTotalVideos": 437,
  "channelTotalViews": 2570271276,
  "input": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "fromYTUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "order": 1,
  "error": null
}

Pricing

$0.50 per 1,000 Shorts ($0.0005 each). One flat price: no start fee, no date-filter add-on, and errors or not-found inputs are never charged.

Other popular Shorts scrapers charge $3 to $4 per 1,000, plus add-on fees for date filters. Apify's free plan includes $5 of credit every month: about 10,000 Shorts.

Good to know

• Speed: about 6 Shorts a second with every detail (341 in under a minute), and much faster with Open every video off. Videos at a time (default 10, up to 30) sets the pace.
• Proxy: Apify Proxy (datacenter) is on by default and is all it needs. YouTube refuses some Apify servers' own IP addresses, so without a proxy the run may stop with a clear message.
• Search filters work like YouTube's own: YouTube decides what matches, and it doesn't keep "Upload date" sort order strictly. A search goes about 500-600 results deep, as on YouTube.
• oldestPostDate takes a date (2026-01-31) or an age (7 days, 2 weeks, 3 months, 1 year). It works for every source. On a channel listed newest first the run stops at the first older video, and elsewhere older videos are skipped.
• For a few videos (mostly some music videos) YouTube doesn't give out the category and tags; those rows have the rest.
• Public data only: everything comes from public YouTube pages as a logged-out visitor sees them. No Google account, no login, no emails or other personal contact data.
• Data accuracy: results are what the source showed at run time, collected from public pages, and can contain errors or change later. Check anything important before you rely on it.

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