youtube

Channel › Shorts

Returns the Shorts published by a channel, each with title, view count, like count, and thumbnail.

Use it when you want only a channel's Shorts; channel/videos returns its regular uploads instead.

Metered: 10–20 credits. We reserve the ceiling when the call starts and charge what it actually used when it finishes.

Paginates by cursor: see Pagination.

get/v1/youtube/channel/shorts

Request

  • Base URL: https://api.insightsocial.app
  • URL: https://api.insightsocial.app/v1/youtube/channel/shorts
  • Auth: API key in header x-api-key

Query parameters

channelIdstring

Can pass channelId or handle. Provide at least one of: channelId, handle.

handlestring
Example:MrBeast

YouTube channel handle without the @ symbol. Provide at least one of: channelId, handle.

sincestring
Example:2026-09-01

Only shorts published on or after this date: YYYY-MM-DD (midnight UTC) or an ISO 8601 timestamp. Older shorts are left off the page, and the page that reaches one ends the walk: next_cursor is not returned and pagination.stopped_at is since. Pinned shorts sit out of date order and never end the walk. The page still costs what a page costs, so a daily poll pays for the pages it walks and no more.

stop_at_idstring

The id (post.id) or URL (post.url) of the newest short you already hold. The page stops just before it: that short and everything after it are left off, next_cursor is not returned, and pagination.stopped_at is known_id. A pinned short never counts as the stop point. If it is not on this page the page is returned in full with its cursor, so keep walking. pagination.stopped_at is end when the list ran out first and null while there is more to walk.

sort'newest' | 'popular'

Sort by newest (descending publish date) or popular (descending view count). Both orderings are genuinely applied, unlike /v1/youtube/search's popular, which is a popularity-weighted ranking rather than a view sort.

include'channel'

Set to channel (one token only) to add the channel's subscriber count to every row (post.ext.author_followers, YouTube's own figure, rounded to three significant figures above 1,000) plus post.author.display_name, .avatar_url and author.id where missing. Adds well under a second (never more than 8).

exact_dates'true' | 'false'

On by default and free: every row is joined to the per-video lookup, one lookup per page (two on a page past 50 rows, side by side), adding about 0.2 to 0.7 seconds (never more than 3). Set to false to skip the lookup and keep the listing title, marked by post.ext.title_maybe_translated. The dates on this endpoint are exact either way.

untilstring

Only rows published on or before this date: YYYY-MM-DD (that whole UTC day is included) or an ISO 8601 timestamp. Newer rows are left off each page and the walk does not stop, so older pages follow. A row with no date is kept.

cursorstring

The pagination.next_cursor from the previous page, sent back unchanged. Omit it for the first page.

dry_run'1'

Set to 1 to get the price of this call without making it: data.dry_run carries credits_min and credits_max. Nothing is charged.

Response

Success.

successtrue required
platformstring required
endpointstring required
schema_version'2' required
unavailablestring[] required
credits_usedinteger required
credits_remaininginteger required
request_idstring required
cachedboolean required
idempotent_replayboolean required
charge_reasonstring required
free_callboolean required

Changes

No recorded changes to this operation across all 1 revision of this API.