YouTube data

YouTube Shorts Scraper (per channel, lightweight)

Name: YouTube Shorts Scraper (per channel, lightweight)
Price: 0.4 USD

Every Short of a YouTube channel: title, video id, view count and thumbnail, with the channel name on each row. Paste channel URLs, @handles or channel ids. Only delivered Shorts are charged.

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$0.40per 1,000 · Short listed

One Short delivered to the dataset. Channels that fail or have no Shorts are never charged.

run it

# one call, results straight back
curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/steadydata~youtube-shorts/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ ... }'

Input

Field	Name	What it does
`channels` required	Channels	Channel URLs, @handles or channel ids. All of these work: https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd, @mkbhd, UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ.
`maxShortsPerChannel`	Max Shorts per channel	Stop after this many Shorts per channel, newest first. This is your cost ceiling: one delivered Short is one charged event.
`language`	Language	Interface language for the texts YouTube returns, e.g. en, nl, de.
`country`	Country	ISO country code used for the request, e.g. US, NL, DE.

What you get back

Field	Type
`channelId`	string, null
`channelName`	string, null
`channelUrl`	string, null
`position`	integer, null
`videoId`	string, null
`url`	string, null
`title`	string, null
`viewCount`	integer, null
`thumbnailUrl`	string, null
`status`	string, null
`input`	string, null
`errorCode`	string, null
`error`	string, null