YouTube Shorts Scraper

hipersoft/youtube-shorts-scraper

Search YouTube Shorts by keyword or hashtag and export the results: Short title, video ID, URL, view count and thumbnail. One clean row per Short as JSON, CSV or Excel.

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Total users

Monthly users

Total runs

Per short scraped

$0.003

Last rebuilt

Oct 26, 2026

Overview

Find YouTube Shorts by keyword or hashtag and export them as clean, structured data. Add one or more search terms and get one row per Short — title, video ID, URL, view count and thumbnail. Export to JSON, CSV or Excel, or pull straight from the API.

Perfect for short-form trend research, competitor and creator analysis, content discovery, hashtag tracking, and building Shorts datasets for dashboards or LLMs.

What you get

One flat, ready-to-use record per Short:

Field	Description
`query`	The keyword / hashtag that produced the row
`videoId` / `url`	The Short and its watch link
`title`	Short title / caption
`viewCount` / `viewCountText`	Views (number + label)
`thumbnail`	Thumbnail image URL
`collectedAt`	When the row was scraped

How to use

1. Add keywords or hashtags

{
  "searchQueries": ["lofi", "#cooking", "workout"],
  "maxItems": 200
}

2. Set the limit

Max Shorts — cap the total across all keywords (0 = no limit; the scraper pages deep into the Shorts results).

Example output

{
  "query": "cooking",
  "videoId": "ADUTUY2Gff0",
  "title": "This Is How To Cook Steak Perfectly 🔥 #shorts",
  "url": "https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ADUTUY2Gff0",
  "viewCount": 4853208,
  "viewCountText": "4.8M views",
  "thumbnail": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ADUTUY2Gff0/oardefault.jpg",
  "collectedAt": "2026-09-20T09:30:00.000Z"
}

Common use cases

Trend research — see which Shorts are winning for a keyword or hashtag.
Competitor & creator analysis — track the top Shorts in a niche.
Content discovery — build watchlists and ideas from top-performing Shorts.
Hashtag tracking — monitor Shorts around a campaign or tag.
Datasets — build clean, structured Shorts result sets for analysis or model training.

Frequently asked questions

Do I need any login, account or key? No. Just add keywords and run.

How many Shorts can I get? Set Max Shorts to whatever you need (0 = no limit) — the scraper pages deep into each search.

Can I search by hashtag? Yes — include the tag (with or without #) as a keyword.

Can I run several searches at once? Yes — add multiple keywords and the results are combined.

What format is the data? A flat table you can export as JSON, CSV or Excel, or fetch from the Apify API.

Related scrapers

Building a YouTube toolkit? Pair this with our YouTube search scraper, YouTube channel scraper, YouTube comments scraper and YouTube transcript scraper — all with the same clean, one-row-per-item output.

Input

Field	Type	Description
`searchQueries` Keywords or hashtags	array	One or more keywords or hashtags to search YouTube Shorts for — e.g. 'lofi', 'cooking', '#fitness'. Each term runs its own Shorts search and the results are combined.
`maxItems` Max Shorts	integer	Maximum number of Shorts to collect across all keywords (0 = no limit). Default: `100`

API

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/hipersoft~youtube-shorts-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "searchQueries": [
    "lofi"
  ]
}'

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("hipersoft/youtube-shorts-scraper").call(run_input={
    "searchQueries": [
        "lofi"
    ]
})

for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN' });
const run = await client.actor('hipersoft/youtube-shorts-scraper').call({
  "searchQueries": [
    "lofi"
  ]
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

Pricing

Event	Price	Paid plans from
Short scraped Charged for each YouTube Short returned.	$0.003	$0.0015

You pay only for what the run returns. Set a maximum cost per run and it stops cleanly at that limit.

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