YouTube Shorts Scraper

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What is YouTube Shorts Scraper?

YouTube Shorts Scraper extracts complete Shorts data from any public YouTube channel with exact numbers, ISO 8601 timestamps, and 37 fields per short — ready for spreadsheets, dashboards, and analysis pipelines.

Every number is an exact integer. Every date is ISO 8601. No "1.2M" guesses, no "10 months ago" approximations.

Data points extracted per short

37 fields per short. Every number exact. Every date ISO 8601.

Why use this scraper?

Our Actor vs Top YouTube Shorts Actors

• One row, full picture — 37 fields per short, flat CSV. No second API call, no post-processing to parse "1.2K" into a number. Download, open in Excel, done.
• Incremental delivery — Results appear in your dataset within seconds. Export anytime, don't wait for the run to finish.
• From $0.50 per 1,000 items — Volume discounts down to $0.25 on Business plan. 8x cheaper than Streamers ($4.00/1K).

Use cases

• Shorts trend analysis — Track which Shorts go viral, when they're posted, and what tags and categories drive views. Identify patterns across channels and niches.
• Content strategy — Analyze top-performing Shorts by views, likes, and engagement ratios. Find the optimal length, best posting times, and winning hashtags for your vertical.
• Influencer discovery — Find creators producing high-engagement Shorts in your niche. Filter by subscriber count, posting frequency, verified status, and content category.
• Competitive intelligence — Monitor competitor Shorts: what they post, how often, what tags they use, which Shorts get the most engagement. Run weekly on a schedule.
• Market research — Benchmark channels by Shorts output, engagement rates, and content mix. Build datasets for reports and presentations with exact numbers.
• ML training data — Structured JSON with 37 fields per short, ready for recommendation systems, trend analysis, or content classification.

How much does it cost?

Each short counts as one item.

Apify also charges a small compute cost (CU) for the actor's runtime — typically under $0.01 for most runs.

Input

Output example

Each item in the dataset is a single short:

{
"videoId":"abc123XYZ_0",
"title":"Wait for it... #shorts",
"description":"You won't believe what happens next...",
"descriptionLinks":"",
"thumbnailUrl":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/abc123XYZ_0/maxresdefault.jpg",
"publishedAt":"2026-03-15T14:30:00Z",
"duration":"PT45S",
"durationSeconds":45,
"viewCount":12500000,
"likeCount":890000,
"commentCount":15420,
"tags":"shorts,funny,viral",
"categoryId":24,
"categoryName":"Entertainment",
"topicDetails":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entertainment",
"definition":"hd",
"hasCaptions":false,
"isAgeRestricted":false,
"privacyStatus":"public",
"commentsTurnedOff":false,
"hashtags":"#shorts #funny",
"type":"shorts",
"order":0,
"channelId":"UCX6OQ3DkcsbYNE6H8uQQuVA",
"channelName":"MrBeast",
"channelUsername":"@MrBeast",
"channelUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX6OQ3DkcsbYNE6H8uQQuVA",
"channelDescription":"SUBSCRIBE FOR A COOKIE!...",
"channelCountry":"US",
"channelJoinedAt":"2012-02-20T00:43:50Z",
"channelSubscriberCount":464000000,
"channelTotalViews":109144471886,
"channelTotalVideos":942,
"channelAvatarUrl":"https://yt3.ggpht.com/...",
"channelBannerUrl":"https://yt3.googleusercontent.com/...",
"channelIsVerified":true,
"scrapeTimestamp":"2026-04-02T12:00:00Z"
}

Download your results as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or HTML from the dataset tab, or access them via the Apify API.

Good to know

Subscriber counts are exact integers. Other scrapers return abbreviated text like "1.2M" that you have to parse. We return 1200000 — ready for calculations, sorting, and filtering.

Channel info is repeated on every row. This makes every CSV row self-contained. If you're scraping 50 channels and need to group by subscriber count, it's already there. Disable includeChannelInfo to reduce output size if you don't need it.

Shorts only. This actor fetches only Shorts (videos under 60 seconds). For regular videos, use YouTube Channel Scraper. For both videos and Shorts together, use the channel scraper with maxShorts set above 0.

Integrations

Connect this actor to your workflow with Apify integrations:

• Make (Integromat) — trigger workflows when new data is available
• Zapier — push shorts to Google Sheets, Slack, or databases
• GitHub — store results in repositories
• Google Drive — export directly to spreadsheets
• Webhooks — notify your API when the run completes
• Apify API — programmatic access for custom pipelines

Legal and personal data

This actor extracts publicly available data from YouTube. You should ensure your use of the extracted data complies with YouTube's Terms of Service, applicable data protection laws (GDPR, CCPA), and your jurisdiction's regulations regarding web scraping and data processing.

Channel and video information is public content visible to anyone on YouTube.

Support

Found a bug or have a feature request? Open an issue on the Issues tab or contact us through Apify messaging.