YouTube Shorts Scraper

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Extract structured data from YouTube Shorts by keyword, hashtag, or channel.

Features

• Scrape Shorts videos by keyword, hashtag, or directly from a channel.
• Output includes clean and flattened JSON fields ready for export.
• Works seamlessly with Apify actor integration.

Input

Provide either:

• A keyword (e.g., "peigo"),
• A hashtag (e.g., "#funny"),
• Or a YouTube channel.

Example input:

{
"TypeScraper":"keyword",
"Input_Search":[
"peigo"
],
"resultsLimit":50
}

Output

The scraper outputs a JSON object for each video found.

Example (keyword/hashtag)

{
"type":"keyword",
"search":"peigo",
"video_id":"gfZoy13ccDc",
"url":"https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gfZoy13ccDc",
"title":"Yo todo el feriado pasando mi tarjeta física PeiGo Mastercard Pídela en tu Banco del Barrio más cercano.",
"views":2656,
"views_text":"2,656 views",
"publishedTimeText":"4 months ago",
"publishDate":"2025-04-24",
"publishedAt":"2025-04-24T00:00:00Z",
"lengthText":"0:10",
"channelHandle":"@PeiGoec",
"channelTitle":"Peigo",
"channelThumbnail":"https://yt3.ggpht.com/rT7YPZTjK-b9aGVtHHKK1RpuNWfDiABGIG_jCN-gQ7_r4a54zHQ__uiPD9RIE7NFNQ7bnPnfFQE=s68-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj",
"thumbnail_url":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gfZoy13ccDc/hq720_2.jpg?sqp=-oaymwE2COgCEMoBSFXyq4qpAygIARUAAIhCGABwAcABBvABAfgBtgiAAoAPigIMCAAQARgaIGUoWjAP&rs=AOn4CLDE-2gMzrqadLS0FVc_6UJLOc3YLQ"
}

Example (channel search)

{
"type":"channel",
"search":"@PeiGoec",
"video_id":"gfZoy13ccDc",
"url":"https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gfZoy13ccDc",
"title":"Yo todo el feriado pasando mi tarjeta física PeiGo Mastercard Pídela en tu Banco del Barrio más cercano.",
"views":2656,
"views_text":"2,656 views",
"publishedTimeText":null,
"publishDate":null,
"publishedAt":null,
"lengthText":null,
"channelHandle":null,
"channelTitle":null,
"channelThumbnail":null,
"thumbnail_url":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gfZoy13ccDc/hq720_2.jpg?sqp=-oaymwE2COgCEMoBSFXyq4qpAygIARUAAIhCGABwAcABBvABAfgBtgiAAoAPigIMCAAQARgaIGUoWjAP&rs=AOn4CLDE-2gMzrqadLS0FVc_6UJLOc3YLQ"
}

👉 Note: When searching by channel, the fields
publishedTimeText, publishDate, publishedAt, lengthText, channelHandle, channelTitle, and channelThumbnail will be null.

Use Cases

• Social media monitoring.
• Marketing & trend analysis.
• Channel or hashtag research.
• Data collection for dashboards.