YouTube Shorts Channel Scraper 📱 Easily extract YouTube Shorts data from any channel. This actor helps you collect comprehensive information about short-form videos, enabling content analysis, competitor research, and performance tracking. ## 🎯 Use Cases - Track competitor's YouTube Shorts strategy - Analyze short-form video performance - Monitor content trends - Research viral content patterns - Gather engagement metrics - Build content databases ## ✨ Features - Scrape unlimited YouTube Shorts from any channel - Get detailed video information including: - Video ID - Title - View count - Thumbnail URL - Short video URL - Automatic pagination handling - Proxy support for reliable scraping - Real-time data extraction - Clean, structured JSON output ## 💡 Input Parameters - channelUrls: Array of YouTube channel URLs to scrape - maxItems: Maximum number of Shorts to collect per channel - proxyConfiguration: Optional proxy settings for reliable scraping ## 💪 Benefits - Save hours of manual data collection - Get structured, ready-to-use data - Monitor multiple channels efficiently - Track short-form video performance - Make data-driven content decisions ## 🎓 Tips - Use proxy configuration for better reliability - Adjust maxItems based on your needs - Run regularly to track changes over time ### Input Example A full explanation of an input example in JSON. json { "channelUrls": [ "https://www.youtube.com/@nike" ], "maxItems": 100 } ### Output sample The results will be wrapped into a dataset which you can always find in the Storage tab. Here's an excerpt from the data you'd get if you apply the input parameters above: And here is the same data but in JSON. You can choose in which format to download your data: JSON, JSONL, Excel spreadsheet, HTML table, CSV, or XML. json [ { "channelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/@nike", "scrapedAt": "2025-01-26T09:44:45.568Z", "short": { "id": "uhGs6qt0zzA", "title": "Kids are the OG Runners. Slowing Down? Never. 💨", "viewCountText": "1.2K views", "shortsUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uhGs6qt0zzA" } }, ... ]