YouTube Profile shorts

apify/youtube/profile.shorts

Fetch short-form videos posted by a channel or profile

via Apify

$0.0055 per recordUp to 100 URLs per request

Input

The public URL of the YouTube channel whose shorts you want to fetch (use the channel page, not the /shorts tab).

Example channel url
https://youtube.com/@acme-eng/shorts

Output

Each record returned by this service has the fields below. Providers may include additional platform-specific fields on top.

  • titlestring

    Short video title

  • video_idstring

    Platform video ID

  • profile_urlurl

    Canonical URL of the short

  • video_typestring

    "shorts" for short-form, "video" otherwise

  • descriptionstring

    Caption / description text

  • durationstring

    Length (e.g. "00:00:42")

  • thumbnailurl

    Thumbnail image URL

  • viewsnumber

    View count

  • likesnumber

    Like count

  • num_commentsnumber

    Comment count

  • date_postedstring

    When the short was published (raw platform string)

  • channel_namestring

    Channel name (denormalized for convenience)

  • channel_urlurl

    Channel page URL

  • sourcestring

    Platform the record was extracted from (e.g. "linkedin")

  • extracted_atiso8601

    UTC timestamp when the record was produced

How to call it

Pass the slug apify/youtube/profile.shorts as the provider field on the POST /v1/extract endpoint.

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