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Web Extraction

YouTube Channel Shorts

Fetch an experimental public YouTube channel Shorts page by handle or channel ID, including normalized titles, URLs, thumbnails, engagement counts, publish dates, channel metadata, and pagination when available.

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Overview

YouTube Channel Shorts fetches one public page of Shorts for a YouTube channel by handle or channel ID, sorted by newest or popular. Use it to sample a creator or competitor's short-form output, creative patterns, engagement signals, and pagination before deeper video-level review.

Use cases

  • Review a channel's newest or popular Shorts before a short-form creative brief.
  • Collect Short titles, URLs, thumbnails, publish timing, duration, views, likes, comments, and channel context.
  • Use a continuation token to inspect the next Shorts page when available.

Input tips

  • Provide either a YouTube handle such as @shopify or a YouTube channel ID.
  • Choose newest for recent Shorts or popular for higher-performing Shorts.
  • Paste a returned continuation token to fetch the next Shorts page.
  • Use YouTube Channel Videos when you need long-form uploads or lives from the same channel.

Expected output

The AI Tool returns lookup status, lookup kind, source handle or channel ID, sort mode, requested continuation token, next continuation token, result count, normalized Shorts, any additional videos, channels, playlists, shelves, lives, flattened result rows, warnings, normalization notes, recovered fields, and cost metadata. Shorts can include IDs, URLs, titles, descriptions, thumbnails, channel summaries, views, likes, comments, publish dates, relative publish text, duration, genre, badges, keywords, captions, collaborators, chapters, and recovered fields when returned.

Caveats

  • This AI Tool is experimental and can fail or return slowly for otherwise valid channels.
  • Each run returns one page, not a complete channel Shorts archive.
  • Some channels or sort modes may return no Shorts, and some returned Shorts may omit descriptions or counts.
  • Continuation tokens, sort order, thumbnails, counts, and public availability can change after the run.
  • Use YouTube Video Details for a closer review of one Short.