YouTube Shorts Channel Scraper 📱

Easily extract YouTube Shorts data from any channel. This actor helps you collect comprehensive information about short-form videos, enabling content analysis, competitor research, and performance tracking.

🎯 Use Cases

• Track competitor's YouTube Shorts strategy
• Analyze short-form video performance
• Monitor content trends
• Research viral content patterns
• Gather engagement metrics
• Build content databases

✨ Features

• Scrape unlimited YouTube Shorts from any channel
• Get detailed video information including:
  • Video ID
  • Title
  • View count
  • Thumbnail URL
  • Short video URL
• Automatic pagination handling
• Proxy support for reliable scraping
• Real-time data extraction
• Clean, structured JSON output

💡 Input Parameters

• channelUrls: Array of YouTube channel URLs to scrape
• maxItems: Maximum number of Shorts to collect per channel
• proxyConfiguration: Optional proxy settings for reliable scraping

💪 Benefits

• Save hours of manual data collection
• Get structured, ready-to-use data
• Monitor multiple channels efficiently
• Track short-form video performance
• Make data-driven content decisions

🎓 Tips

• Use proxy configuration for better reliability
• Adjust maxItems based on your needs
• Run regularly to track changes over time

Input Example

A full explanation of an input example in JSON.

{
    "channelUrls": [
        "https://www.youtube.com/@nike"
    ],
    "maxItems": 100
}

Output sample

The results will be wrapped into a dataset which you can always find in the Storage tab. Here's an excerpt from the data you'd get if you apply the input parameters above:

And here is the same data but in JSON. You can choose in which format to download your data: JSON, JSONL, Excel spreadsheet, HTML table, CSV, or XML.

[
    {
        "channelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/@nike",
        "scrapedAt": "2025-01-26T09:44:45.568Z",
        "short": {
            "id": "uhGs6qt0zzA",
            "title": "Kids are the OG Runners. Slowing Down? Never. 💨",
            "viewCountText": "1.2K views",
            "shortsUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uhGs6qt0zzA"
        }
    },
    ...
]