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YouTube Shorts Scraper

Collect short-form video records from YouTube. Start with YouTube short-video URLs; each returned short video keeps titles, authors, view counts, comment count, and comment count text.

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RunInput → Run → Results → Export

YouTube Shorts Scraper input and dataset schema — Contract3 inputs / 22 dataset fields

Actor IDCWs6AE3piAemhce9g

Pricing$5 per 1,000 live streams on the Free plan. Other Apify plans use the rates shown in the Pricing tab.

Dataset views6

Saved tasks20

Input / 3 fields

YouTube Shorts Scraper

YouTube Shorts Scraper accepts source URLs. Run controls stay in the same form.

startUrls

Which source URLs?

Paste exact YouTube URLs, one per line.

array

maxItems

How many results?

Stop after this many dataset rows.

integer · 1 to 10000

maxSeconds

How long may the run continue?

Stop after this many seconds and keep completed rows.

integer · 30 to 3600

Dataset / 22 fields

Output contract.

JSON, CSV, Excel, or dataset API.

whatIFoundstring

titlestring

urlstring

authorstring

publishedAtstring

viewsinteger

likesinteger

durationstring

descriptionstring

imagestring

videoIdstring

thumbnailstring

viewCountinteger

videoUrlstring

scrapedAtstring

playabilityStatusstring

isShortboolean

channelIdstring

channelUrlstring

commentCountinteger

commentCountTextstring

routestring

Example

Delivered record.

{
  "channelId": "UCVNqi7JQ-dTpukuqmAIAmPw",
  "commentCount": 1500,
  "duration": "PT30S"
}

Saved tasks

20 ready specifications.

Exact input, dataset view, fields, Actor ID, price, and endpoint.

01YouTube Shorts images finding corebuyer-job · overview 02YouTube Shorts answer finding result handoffbuyer-job · answer 03YouTube Shorts authors identity rosterbuyer-job · identity 04YouTube Shorts titles content briefbuyer-job · content 05YouTube Shorts view counts audience sizingbuyer-job · engagement 06YouTube Shorts images and video IDs gallery viewbuyer-job · media 07YouTube Shorts finding decision filebuyer-job · overview 08YouTube Shorts finding answer decision filebuyer-job · answer 09YouTube Shorts channel ID authors identitybuyer-job · identity 10YouTube Shorts descriptions titles contentbuyer-job · content 11YouTube Shorts like counts and view counts rating viewbuyer-job · engagement 12YouTube Shorts media video IDs creative setbuyer-job · media 13YouTube Shorts titles reading listbuyer-job · overview 14YouTube Shorts finding titles answerbuyer-job · answer 15YouTube Shorts authors indexbuyer-job · identity 16YouTube Shorts title and copy reviewbuyer-job · content 17YouTube Shorts response view counts volume checkbuyer-job · engagement 18YouTube Shorts thumbnails media asset listbuyer-job · media 19YouTube Shorts core channel ID lookupbuyer-job · overview 20YouTube Shorts finding answer viewbuyer-job · answer