§ YouTube/Channel Shorts
YouTube

YouTube Channel Shorts API

Every YouTube Short a channel has posted, paginated, with view counts and engagement.

From $0.0030 per call·Median under 2s·One charge per call
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§ One call

Send a handle.
Get back JSON.

This endpoint takes one input: handle. The response carries the parsed YouTube entity — every public field, in a flat, predictable shape.

Request
cURL
curl https://api.hproxy.com/v1/scrape/youtube/channel/shorts \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $HPROXY_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"handle":"starterstory","sort":"newest"}'
POST // 1 call · $0.0030 · <2s
§ What you get

Structured data,
not a scraping project.

List of short-form videos (Shorts) from a YouTube channel.

Live JSON, returned in seconds
No login flows, no captcha solving
Pay-as-you-go, priced in dollars
Same API key across every scraper
Idempotent retries via X-Request-Id
REST — works from any language
§ Built for

The work that
needs this data.

§ 01

Lead generation

Pull YouTube signals at scale and enrich your CRM with public profile data — clean, structured, ready to import.

§ 02

Market research

Track competitors, audience movements, and trends across YouTube without standing up any scraping infrastructure.

§ 03

AI training data

Feed predictable YouTube JSON straight into your model fine-tuning pipeline. Same schema every call.

§ More YouTube

The rest of the
YouTube hub.

See all 12 endpoints

YouTube Channel

/v1/scrape/youtube/channel/collect/by/handle

Channel profile, subscriber count, total videos, total views, social links.

$0.0030
per call

YouTube Channel Videos

/v1/scrape/youtube/channel/videos

Paginated list of videos uploaded by a YouTube channel.

$0.0030
per call

YouTube Video

/v1/scrape/youtube/video/collect/by/url

Full YouTube video metadata, captions, related videos.

$0.0030
per call

YouTube Video Transcript

/v1/scrape/youtube/video/transcript

Captions / subtitles / transcript for a YouTube video.

$0.0300
per call
§ Try it

Two dollars,
first run.

Sign in with Google, drop $2 in the wallet, fire your first Channel Shorts call against youtube.com. If it doesn’t do what you need, the balance is refundable for 24 hours.

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