Youtube Shorts API
Fetch YouTube Shorts performance data including view counts, engagement metrics, and trending short-form videos for any channel.
Python | 1 | import requests |
| 2 | |
| 3 | root = "https://ensembledata.com/apis" |
| 4 | endpoint = "/youtube/channel/shorts" |
| 5 | params = { |
| 6 | "browseId": "UClAa0YLrW4MaIKOWaeZR9Xg", |
| 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
Short-Form Performance Data
Track views and engagement on a channel's Shorts, tracked separately from long-form video.
Catch Breakout Shorts Early
Monitor view velocity on new Shorts to spot ones about to go viral.
Full Shorts Archive
Paginate through a channel's complete Shorts history instead of just recent uploads.
Format Benchmarking
Compare Shorts performance against standard uploads to see which format drives more views.
Metadata Included
Every Short returns title, description, and stats in one structured response.
Always Current Numbers
View and like counts are pulled live at request time, not cached.
Scrape Youtube Data Effortlessly
Get short-form video data at scale with our Shorts API including view counts, like ratios, and comment activity, all through a simple API call.
Shorts-Only Feed
Pull just a channel's YouTube Shorts, separated cleanly from long-form uploads.
View Velocity Signals
Track how fast a Short is accumulating views to catch breakout clips early.
Cross-Channel Shorts Study
Compare Shorts performance across several channels in the same niche.
Youtube Scraping Features
Track what is trending in YouTube Shorts for your niche and use the data to inform your short-form video strategy and content calendar.
- Isolate a channel's Shorts feed cleanly, separate from its long-form video catalog.
- Rank Shorts by view count and engagement to spot which clips are gaining traction.
- Track view velocity on new Shorts to catch breakout clips before they fully peak.
- Paginate through a channel's complete Shorts history using the same continuation-token flow.
- Compare Shorts performance against standard uploads to see which format drives more views.
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Contact usFrequently Asked Questions
It returns short-form video data for a channel, including view counts, engagement metrics, and metadata for each Short.
This endpoint isolates a channel's Shorts specifically, letting you analyze short-form performance separately from long-form video content.
Yes, view counts and engagement data returned per Short make it straightforward to rank and identify top-performing short-form content.
Yes, tracking Shorts performance across channels in your niche helps inform what formats and topics are resonating right now.
It filters specifically for vertical videos under 60 seconds published in the Shorts format, separate from the channel's standard long-form catalog.
No, retention-level metrics like swipe-away rate aren't publicly exposed by YouTube; the response includes view, like, and comment counts, the same public metrics available for any video.
Yes, Shorts results are paginated with the same continuation-token mechanism used by the Videos endpoint.
Yes, the endpoint returns an empty result set rather than an error if the channel has no Shorts published.
Yes, calling this endpoint for several channels lets you compare view counts and engagement to benchmark short-form performance.