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YouTube Channel Shorts Scraper API

The YouTube Channel Shorts endpoint is one API call: send either a channel ID or a handle with your HProxy key and get back a clean, structured JSON object. Pull every Short on a YouTube channel, page by page, with title, view and like counts, duration and publish date. HProxy runs the proxies, sessions, anti-bot handling and parsing server-side, so there is no headless browser to babysit and no parser to keep fixing when YouTube changes its markup. You only ever touch the JSON. Longer result sets come back page by page with a cursor, so you can walk the whole set without holding it in memory.
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  • 0.15¢ per call
  • $1.49 per 1,000
  • Takes either a channel ID or a handle
  • Errors and timeouts are not charged

On YouTube

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The call

One GET, and the channel shorts comes back as JSON.

Your key goes in one header. 1 required parameter, and the answer is the object below it.

The full reference
curl "https://hproxy.com/api/v1/scrape/youtube/channel-shorts?handle=MrBeast" \
  -H "X-API-Key: hpx_your_key_here"
Response200 OK · JSON
{
  "id": "72901...",
  "caption": "how we shipped it in a weekend",
  "author": { "username": "@handle", "followerCount": 90421 },
  "stats": { "views": 421903, "likes": 38210, "comments": 1204, "shares": 903 },
  "media": { "url": "https://.../video.mp4", "duration": 47.2 }
}

What comes back

The YouTube channel shorts object.

caption / title
The media's caption or title text.
stats
Views, likes, comments and shares.
author
Uploader handle, ID and follower count.
media
Direct media URLs, duration and dimensions.

What it takes

Parameters.

Send any one of channelId, handle. channelId or handle required

channelIdstring1234567890

Identifier from a previous response.

handlestringMrBeast

Account handle or @username.

sortstringnewest

Ordering to apply to the results. Allowed values: `newest`, `popular`.

continuationTokenstringvalue

Pagination token from the previous response.

includeExtrasbooleantrue

Optional flag (true or false).

How it works

Scraping YouTube channel shorts, in three steps.

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What people build with it

Where the YouTube channel shorts endpoint earns its keep.

  • Track how YouTube videos perform over time.
  • Build a media library with captions, stats and download URLs.
  • Benchmark competitor content and hooks.

YouTube channel shorts questions

Answered before you ask.

The reference

Send one authenticated HTTPS request to the YouTube Channel Shorts endpoint with either a channel ID or a handle and your HProxy API key. Pull every Short on a YouTube channel, page by page, with title, view and like counts, duration and publish date. No proxies, no headless browser and no parsing on your side. The response is ready-to-use JSON.

This endpoint is 0.15¢ per successful call, which is $1.49 per 1,000. It bills from your HProxy balance with no subscription and no monthly minimum. Errors are retried and never charged; a lookup whose target does not exist counts as a call.

No. Every call runs on HProxy's own residential network behind the scenes, so requests look like real users. The proxy layer is already included in the per-call price.

A structured JSON object with the full channel shorts data YouTube exposes publicly. See the fields listed above. The schema is consistent across calls, so you integrate once and rely on it.

Yes. The response carries a cursor; pass it back on the next call to continue from where you stopped. Each page is one billable call, so you only pay for the depth you actually pull.

The API only accesses publicly available YouTube data, the same pages anyone can open in a browser. You are responsible for using the data in line with applicable laws and YouTube's terms for your use case.

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Posts and media elsewhere

The same data on 13 other platforms.

One key, one JSON shape, one balance. Move sideways without learning a second API.

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Every platform

The same key works on all 23.

The whole catalog

More on the YouTube Channel Shorts API

What the YouTube Channel Shorts endpoint returns

Pull every Short on a YouTube channel, page by page, with title, view and like counts, duration and publish date. The JSON object carries caption / title, stats, author and media. Nothing is summarised away on our side, so what you read in the response is what the YouTube channel shorts page itself holds.

What you send to the YouTube Channel Shorts API

The call takes either a channel ID or a handle, and any one of channelId and handle satisfies it. Optional: channelId, handle, sort, continuationToken and includeExtras. Your key travels in the X-API-Key header, the response is JSON, and the call is billed at 0.15¢, $1.49 per 1,000.

Posts and media on other platforms

The same posts and media data is available on 13 other platforms: TikTok Video, Facebook Profile Reels, Instagram User Reels, Twitch User Videos, Kick Clip, LinkedIn Company Posts, Twitter / X User Tweets, Reddit Subreddit Posts, Threads User Posts, Pinterest Pin, Bluesky User Posts, Spotify Track and Truth Social User Posts. They share this endpoint's JSON shape, its per-call billing and your one API key, so moving from YouTube to another network is a change of URL rather than a second integration.

Is scraping YouTube channel shorts allowed?

The endpoint reads publicly available YouTube data, the same pages anyone can open in a browser without logging in. It does not touch private accounts or anything behind a password. How you then use the data is yours to keep lawful, under the rules that apply to you and to YouTube.

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