YouTube Shorts Scraper — Keyword Search, Views & Date Filter

Find the YouTube Shorts that are actually popular, for any keyword, creator, or hashtag — and only the ones published inside the window you care about.

Most Shorts scrapers take a channel URL and hand back everything that channel ever posted. This one starts from what you are searching for, checks every Short it finds, and returns them ranked by real numbers.

What makes it different

Search by keyword, not just by channel. Type IShowSpeed, Kai Cenat, mrbeast challenge, or any topic. You do not need to know the channel first.

"Popular" means exact view counts. Every Short is enriched to its precise view count — 25,939,392, not 26M. Ranking on rounded numbers puts thousands of Shorts in the same bucket; this returns a true order.

Likes and comments on every row. Not just views — you also get exact like and comment counts, plus an engagement rate per 1,000 views that stays comparable across Shorts of wildly different reach.

The date filter is real. Every Short carries its exact publish timestamp, and the timeframe is applied against that. When you ask for the last 7 days, you get the last 7 days.

Four ways to rank:

Every row also carries engagementRate (likes + comments per 1,000 views), so you can separate a Short that got reach from one that got a reaction.

Views per day is usually what people mean by "trending": a 3-day-old Short on 2M views beats a 2-year-old Short on 5M.

Results arrive while the run is still going. Rows are written to the dataset as each Short is checked, best candidates first — you are not waiting for the whole run to finish before you see anything. Ask for 1,000 Shorts and the first ones show up in seconds.

Depth on creators. When your keyword matches a creator, the Actor also reads that creator's full Shorts catalogue — so a search for a big name returns hundreds of candidates to rank, not the handful that fit on one page of results.

Input

Everything is auto-detected. You never pick a mode.

{
  "queries": ["IShowSpeed", "Kai Cenat"],
  "timeframe": "last30d",
  "sortBy": "views",
  "maxResults": 50,
  "minViews": 0
}

Output

One row per Short:

{
  "videoId": "-KUPXrRQ93w",
  "title": "LIFTING THE HEAVIEST BLOCK IN THE WORLD",
  "url": "https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-KUPXrRQ93w",
  "views": 25939392,
  "likes": 916278,
  "comments": 15583,
  "engagementRate": 35.92,
  "viewsPerDay": 1329147,
  "viralScore": 1756955,
  "publishedAt": "2026-08-15T04:00:26-07:00",
  "ageDays": 19.6,
  "durationSeconds": 40,
  "channelName": "IShowSpeed",
  "channelId": "UCWsDFcIhY2DBi3GB5uykGXA",
  "channelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWsDFcIhY2DBi3GB5uykGXA",
  "description": "...",
  "keywords": ["ishowspeed"],
  "category": "Gaming",
  "thumbnail": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/-KUPXrRQ93w/sardefault.jpg"
}

Export as JSON, CSV, Excel, or XML, or pull it straight from the API.

Use it for

• Content research — see which formats and hooks are working in your niche this week
• Engagement benchmarking — compare like/comment rates, not just raw view counts
• Trend spotting — catch Shorts climbing fast before they peak
• Competitor tracking — monitor any creator's Shorts performance over time
• Sponsorship and talent scouting — find creators whose Shorts consistently land
• Datasets — feed short-form video performance data into your own models

Good to know

• Returns public data only — no login, no cookies, no account required.
• Rows stream out as they are found, ordered best-first by whatever you chose in sortBy. Because rows cannot be reordered once written, treat that order as best-effort: every row carries its exact views, viewsPerDay, viralScore and engagementRate, so sort the finished dataset on those if you need a guaranteed order.
• The run stops as soon as maxResults is reached, so you are never charged for Shorts beyond what you asked for.
• Every returned Short is confirmed to be a Short by its actual duration, so long-form videos never leak into your results.
• A Short whose publish date cannot be established is excluded from a filtered run rather than guessed at.
• Widen timeframe or lower minViews if a narrow search returns fewer rows than you expected — very recent windows genuinely contain fewer Shorts.

Support

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Legal & compliance

Public data only · respects source rate limits and terms · no storage of personal information · suitable for commercial use · No affiliation with or endorsement by YouTube is implied.

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