YouTube

Retrieve the shorts tab for a YouTube channel

Returns the first page of Shorts from a YouTube channel's Shorts tab. id accepts a channel id, @handle, /c or /user path, or a full channel URL. Each short has its position, video id, title, URL, thumbnail and view count text.

get/youtube/channel/{id}/shorts

Request

  • Base URL: https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1
  • URL: https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/youtube/channel/{id}/shorts
  • Auth: API key in header x-api-key

Path parameters

idstring required

Channel ID, @handle, /c path, /user path, or full YouTube channel URL

Headers

x-api-keystring required

API key required

Response

OK

codeinteger
msgstring

Example response

{
  "code": 200,
  "data": {
    "channel_id": "UCXZCJLdBC09xxGZ6gcdrc6A",
    "channel_title": "OpenAI",
    "channel_url": "https://www.youtube.com/@OpenAI",
    "handle": "@OpenAI",
    "shorts": [
      {
        "position": 1,
        "thumbnail": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/abc123xyz89/oar2.jpg",
        "title": "OpenAI demo clip",
        "url": "https://www.youtube.com/shorts/abc123xyz89",
        "video_id": "abc123xyz89",
        "view_count": "1.2M views"
      }
    ],
    "thumbnail": "https://yt3.googleusercontent.com/example=s176-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj"
  },
  "msg": "OK"
}

Changes

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