Youtube Music Posts API
Link music IDs to their related YouTube Shorts and discover which tracks are driving short-form video trends on the platform.
Python | 1 | import requests |
| 2 | |
| 3 | root = "https://ensembledata.com/apis" |
| 4 | endpoint = "/youtube/music/id-to-shorts" |
| 5 | params = { |
| 6 | "id": "4qmFsgKsARIRRkVzZnZfYXVkaW9fcGl2b3QaeENBRHlCVlVLUmhJM0NndGFZVGgwU1VsMlNWVlZkeElMV21FNGRFbEpka2xWVlhjYUMwWkhVRlJDWmtGMGQwNVJJZzRJOEtVREVnZ0lEQkNBZ2Nta0F4b0xSa2RRVkVKbVFYUjNUbEVvc096US12VDZyTG40QVdnQpoCHGJyb3dzZS1mZWVkRkVzZnZfYXVkaW9fcGl2b3Q%3D", |
| 7 | "depth": 1, |
| 8 | "token": "YOUR-TOKEN-HERE" |
| 9 | } |
| 10 | |
| 11 | res = requests.get(root+endpoint, params=params) |
| 12 | print(res.json()) |
| 13 |
Why Developer Teams Use Our API
Track Trending Audio on Shorts
See which sounds are gaining traction across YouTube Shorts before they peak.
Usage Count Data
Get a clear count of how many Shorts currently use a given audio track.
Content Timing Insights
Plan Shorts around audio that's actively climbing instead of guessing at trends.
Linked Shorts Discovery
Find the Shorts driving a sound's popularity, not just its raw usage total.
Live Trend Snapshots
Every lookup reflects current usage data pulled directly from YouTube.
Simple Track ID Lookup
Pass a music identifier and get back clean, structured trend metadata.
Scrape Youtube Data Effortlessly
Our music posts API connects audio tracks to the YouTube Shorts they power, useful for music marketers tracking how songs perform in video content.
Shorts Discovery by Track
Find every YouTube Short built around a specific song without browsing.
Cross-Track Comparison
Compare usage counts across tracks to see which audio is winning on Shorts.
Sync Licensing Insight
Give music teams real Shorts usage data to support sync licensing decisions.
Youtube Scraping Features
Find out which music shows up in trending YouTube Shorts and use that data to inform your music promotion or content strategy.
- Link a specific music ID directly to every YouTube Short built around that track.
- See cumulative all-time usage counts to measure a song's overall traction on Shorts.
- Query a creator's original sound the same way as a licensed commercial music track.
- Compare usage counts across tracks to identify which audio is winning on Shorts right now.
- Give music teams real Shorts usage data to support sync licensing and promotion timing.
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Contact usFrequently Asked Questions
It links a specific music/audio ID to the YouTube Shorts using that track, along with usage and reach data.
You provide the music ID, and the endpoint returns the Shorts videos built around that track along with their view counts, showing you how the song is performing.
Yes, it's commonly used by music marketers to see which songs are driving short-form video trends and to time promotion around rising tracks.
Yes, usage counts and linked video data are returned, giving you a measure of a track's overall traction in Shorts.
Extract it from the audio metadata field returned by the Shorts endpoint for any video already using the track you want to analyze.
Yes, original audio created within a Short gets its own trackable ID and can be queried the same way as licensed tracks.
It reflects cumulative all-time usage across all Shorts using that music ID, not a rolling recent window.
The endpoint returns a not-found response for music IDs that are no longer valid on the platform.