YouTube API endpoint
Retrieve the shorts tab for a YouTube channel
Returns normalized short-form video entries from a channel's Shorts tab.
GETapiKey3 credits/requestyoutube.channelShortsResponseDoc
/youtube/channel/{id}/shortsParameters
| Name | In | Type | Required | Enum | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| id | path | string | Yes | Channel ID, @handle, /c path, /user path, or full YouTube channel URL | ||
| x-api-key | header | string | Yes | API key required |
Authentication
Send your scraping API key in the x-api-key header. Use the console API Keys page to rotate or select the active key.
Billing
Endpoint usage is metered in credits. The plan prices, included credits, limits, and overage rates below match the active backend billing configuration.
- Credit cost
- 3 credits/request
- Charged response
- Successful 2xx responses
| Plan | Price | Included credits | Daily cap | Rate limit | Overage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/mo | 2,000 | 500 daily credits | 5/min | No overage |
| Starter | $9/mo | 20,000 | 5,000 daily credits | 15/min | $0.75/1,000 overage credits when enabled |
| Growth | $29/mo | 100,000 | 25,000 daily credits | 45/min | $0.45/1,000 overage credits when enabled |
| Pro | $79/mo | 400,000 | No daily cap | 120/min | $0.30/1,000 overage credits |
| Business | $199/mo | 1,200,000 | No daily cap | 300/min | $0.20/1,000 overage credits |
| Enterprise | $499/mo | 5,000,000 | No daily cap | 1,000/min | $0.12/1,000 overage credits |
Catalog quality warnings
- missing example for required path param: id
Failure responses
| Status | Description | Schema |
|---|---|---|
| 400 | Missing or invalid parameters | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 429 | Rate limit exceeded | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 500 | Internal server error | #/definitions/app.Response |
Example response
{
"code": 200,
"msg": "OK",
"data": {
"channel_id": "UCXZCJLdBC09xxGZ6gcdrc6A",
"channel_title": "OpenAI",
"handle": "@OpenAI",
"shorts": [
{
"position": 1,
"video_id": "abc123xyz89",
"title": "OpenAI demo clip",
"url": "https://www.youtube.com/shorts/abc123xyz89",
"view_count": "1.2M views"
}
]
}
}Request schema
No body schema
Response schema
#/definitions/youtube.channelShortsResponseDoc
| Field | Type | Required | Enum | Bounds | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| code | integer | No | 200 | |||
| data | youtube.ChannelShortsResponse | No | ||||
| data.channel_id | string | No | UCXZCJLdBC09xxGZ6gcdrc6A | |||
| data.channel_title | string | No | OpenAI | |||
| data.channel_url | string | No | https://www.youtube.com/@OpenAI | |||
| data.handle | string | No | @OpenAI | |||
| data.shorts | array | No | ||||
| data.shorts[].position | integer | No | 1 | |||
| data.shorts[].thumbnail | string | No | https://i.ytimg.com/vi/abc123xyz89/oar2.jpg | |||
| data.shorts[].title | string | No | OpenAI demo clip | |||
| data.shorts[].url | string | No | https://www.youtube.com/shorts/abc123xyz89 | |||
| data.shorts[].video_id | string | No | abc123xyz89 | |||
| data.shorts[].view_count | string | No | 1.2M views | |||
| data.thumbnail | string | No | https://yt3.googleusercontent.com/example=s176-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj | |||
| msg | string | No | OK |
Example request
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/youtube/channel/user-1/shorts" -H "x-api-key: <api-key>"
TypeScript fetch
const url = new URL("https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/youtube/channel/user-1/shorts");
const headers = new Headers();
headers.set("x-api-key", "<api-key>");
const response = await fetch(url, {
method: "GET",
headers,
});
const payload = await response.json();