# fetcher.sh YouTube Shorts Data API

> fetcher.sh YouTube Shorts Data API is a paid API for AI agents from fetcher.sh, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Fetches metadata and details for a specific YouTube Shorts video by its ID, paid per call in USDC

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://fetcher.sh/api/youtube/shorts/%7Bid%7D
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/fetcher-sh-youtube-shorts-data-api-c0fb06fa
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_bso7DleYsUtOlTBrclBN3

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability fetcher-sh-youtube-shorts-data-api-c0fb06fa
```

Example prompt: Can you pull the details for this YouTube Short — views, likes, creator, and title — for video ID dQw4w9WgXcQ? I want to see its engagement stats.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need YouTube Shorts-specific metadata without setting up a YouTube Data API key or OAuth flow. It is ideal for AI agents that need lightweight, pay-per-use access to Shorts data without managing subscriptions or quotas. Prefer this over the official YouTube API when you want frictionless per-call billing in USDC on Base, or when you need data about Shorts specifically rather than general YouTube videos.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or non-existent video ID returns an error or empty result
- Video has been deleted or made private, resulting in a not-found response
- Rate limiting if too many calls are made in quick succession
- Payment failure if USDC balance is insufficient for the $0.005 per-call fee
- YouTube page structure changes may cause temporary scraping failures

## How this service works

fetcher.sh is an x402 web-data and scraping API: 111 endpoints for Twitter/X, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Reddit, Google, App Store, and Yelp — paid per call in USDC on Base, Polygon, Arbitrum, Monad or Solana, or with prepaid credits. Built for AI agents: no accounts, no OAuth, no subscriptions.

## Output

Returns structured data about the specified YouTube Short including title, creator/channel name, view count, like count, comment count, video duration, posting date, and a link to the video — all extracted directly from YouTube without requiring OAuth or a YouTube API key.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "properties": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/fetcher-sh-youtube-shorts-data-api-c0fb06fa/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from fetcher.sh](https://www.zero.xyz/host/fetcher.sh/llms.txt)