YouTube Shorts API

POST

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Browse a YouTube channel's Shorts by handle, up to 100 per call, with title, thumbnail, views, likes, duration and publish date. Pass a handle in username rather than a UC channel ID; one batch may not include every Short on the channel.

Price $0.56 per 1,000 requests ($0.000556 per call). Failed calls and empty results are not charged. Synchronous. For slow jobs add "mode": "async" to the body, take the job_id and poll.

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Paste this into your AI assistant. It already holds this endpoint's parameters, response fields and an example request, so the assistant can ask what you need and then write the scraper.

Please help me write a data collection script with the EveryInfra YouTube Shorts endpoint (youtube/shorts).

Endpoint contract:
- Request: POST https://api.everyinfra.com/api/v1/social with the header Authorization: Bearer <API key>. Read the key from the EVERYINFRA_API_KEY environment variable and never hard-code it.
- In the request body, set platform to youtube and action to shorts, and put the parameters inside params.
- Required parameters:
  - username: The channel handle (optional leading @) required by the followers and shorts actions. The followers action returns aggregate subscriber counts rather than user lists.
- Optional parameters:
  - channel: A compatibility alias for specifying a channel handle. Full /channel/UC... URLs may fail to parse across helper utilities, so prefer passing a handle or using the URL parameter explicitly provided by the action.
  - since: The lower date bound for filtering channel videos, Shorts, or comments. It applies to those lists only.
  - sort: The sort order applied across YouTube actions. For search, accepted values are relevance, newest, most_viewed, and top_rated. For channel videos and Shorts, accepted values are newest, oldest, and popular. (allowed: newest / oldest / popular)
  - limit: The most rows to return in this call, an integer from 1 to 100. The default applies when you leave it out, and a call can return fewer rows. Larger values return 422 before any charge. (default: 20)
- Returns a list of records. Main fields of each record: id, url, title, thumbnail_url, view_count, like_count, duration, posted_at, author_name, author_id, author_url.
- Example request body:
{
  "platform": "youtube",
  "action": "shorts",
  "params": {
    "username": "NASA"
  }
}
- Price: $0.56 per 1,000 requests; failed and empty results are not charged.
- For dozens or hundreds of targets, add "mode": "async" to the body: you get a job_id at once and poll GET https://api.everyinfra.com/api/v1/jobs/{job_id} for the result.
- On 422, fix the request using the suggested parameter names and allowed values in the error; on 429 or 503, wait for Retry-After and try again.

Before writing code, ask me which targets I need, how many, which fields, and what output format I want; then confirm the plan and the rough cost with me.

Request parameters

NameInTypeRequiredDefaultDescription
AuthorizationheaderstringYes-Bearer followed by your API key. Create it in the console; never put it in a URL or a code repository.
platformbodystringYesyoutubePlatform identifier, fixed value.
actionbodystringYesshortsCapability identifier, fixed value.
usernamebody.paramsNot declaredYes-The channel handle (optional leading @) required by the followers and shorts actions. The followers action returns aggregate subscriber counts rather than user lists. The shorts action prioritizes handles and does not treat UC... channel IDs as identical identifiers.
channelbody.paramsNot declaredNo-A compatibility alias for specifying a channel handle. Full /channel/UC... URLs may fail to parse across helper utilities, so prefer passing a handle or using the URL parameter explicitly provided by the action.
sincebody.paramsNot declaredNo-The lower date bound for filtering channel videos, Shorts, or comments. It applies to those lists only.
sortbody.paramsenumNo-The sort order applied across YouTube actions. For search, accepted values are relevance, newest, most_viewed, and top_rated. For channel videos and Shorts, accepted values are newest, oldest, and popular. For comments, accepted values are newest and popular. Specifying this parameter on a single-video query does not filter that video's content.Allowed valuesnewestoldestpopular
limitbody.paramsinteger (1–100)No20The most rows to return in this call, an integer from 1 to 100. The default applies when you leave it out, and a call can return fewer rows. Larger values return 422 before any charge.

Code samples

bash
curl -X POST 'https://api.everyinfra.com/api/v1/social' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $EVERYINFRA_API_KEY" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{
  "platform": "youtube",
  "action": "shorts",
  "params": {
    "username": "NASA"
  }
}'

[OpenAPI definition (JSON)]Samples read the key from the EVERYINFRA_API_KEY environment variable; copied code never contains your key.

Response example

Real response

Captured September 26, 2026 at 08:56 (UTC) by calling this API with the parameters in the code sample above. results and count are that call's real response with personal information (names, handles, avatars, profile links, contact details) removed; the list keeps the first 2. id, billing and quota differ on every call, so only their shape is shown.

json
{
  "id": "req_…",
  "platform": "youtube",
  "action": "shorts",
  "results": [
    {
      "id": "QP5Fs3AYuWE",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QP5Fs3AYuWE",
      "title": "2026 Total Solar Eclipse Over Spain",
      "thumbnail_url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/QP5Fs3AYuWE/maxresdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEoCIAKENAF8quKqQMcGADwAQH4AbYIgAKAD4oCDAgAEAEYZSBlKGUwDw==&rs=AOn4CLAT9U1JJD_l2_VOJY3iTy0h7-Tq1w",
      "view_count": 180984,
      "like_count": 5500,
      "duration": "00:00:35",
      "posted_at": "2026-08-12T19:08:21+00:00",
      "author_name": "NASA",
      "author_id": "(已隐去)",
      "author_url": "https://www.youtube.com/(已隐去)",
      "platform": "youtube"
    },
    {
      "id": "VV_JW4iCni0",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VV_JW4iCni0",
      "title": "NASA Moon Base Update (Aug. 4, 2026)",
      "thumbnail_url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VV_JW4iCni0/maxres2.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEoCIAKENAF8quKqQMcGADwAQH4AbYIgAKAD4oCDAgAEAEYZSBlKFIwDw==&rs=AOn4CLAcXNzw0zOj2WxgVF5ZilzIObMHRg",
      "view_count": 183127,
      "like_count": 5700,
      "duration": "00:00:32",
      "posted_at": "2026-08-04T16:18:07+00:00",
      "author_name": "NASA",
      "author_id": "(已隐去)",
      "author_url": "https://www.youtube.com/(已隐去)",
      "platform": "youtube"
    }
  ],
  "count": 20,
  "billing": {
    "charged": …,
    "charged_usd": …,
    "balance_after_usd": …,
    …
  },
  "quota": { … }
}

Response fields

Business data is in results. The table lists the fields a record can contain; values the platform does not show are never made up.

FieldMeaning
idThe record's unique ID on the platform. Unique only within one platform; IDs can repeat across platforms.
urlLink to the record on the platform.
titleTitle. null when the platform has no titles (for example text-only posts).
thumbnail_urlThumbnail link, lower resolution than image_url.
view_countViews or plays. null means not disclosed, not 0.
like_countLikes. null means the platform or this capability does not disclose it; it is not 0.
durationKeeps the platform's own meaning
posted_atPublish time in ISO 8601, UTC (for example 2026-08-07T12:34:56+00:00). Non-standard strings from the platform are passed through as is, so parse defensively. null means the platform does not disclose it.
author_nameAuthor's display name.
author_idAuthor's unique ID on the platform.
author_urlLink to the author's profile on the platform.
platformSource platform identifier, the same as platform in the request (for example xiaohongshu, tiktok).

Errors and billing

401
Missing or invalid key. Authentication runs before parameter checks, so unauthenticated requests never see the parameter schema.
422
Wrong parameter name or value. The error lists the parameters and allowed values this capability accepts and the closest match; it happens before any charge.
402
Insufficient balance. Top up first.
429
The account's per-minute request limit was reached (all of its API keys count together; a key's own lower limit applies first). Wait for Retry-After and try again; a rate package in the console raises the limit.
503
Could not complete right now. Any charge for the call goes back to your balance automatically, and the billing receipt in the response states the actual outcome, including when it is not yet known. Do not resend blindly.
200 empty
The request completed without data and is not charged (billing.reason = empty_result_refunded).

Official references

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