# YouTube Channel Shorts

> YouTube Channel Shorts is a paid API for AI agents from Scrape Creators at mpp.orthogonal.com, paid per call via MPP, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-10, last successful call 2026-06-21).

Retrieves the Shorts videos published on a specified YouTube channel

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://mpp.orthogonal.com/scrapecreators/v1/youtube/channel/shorts?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: MPP
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-10
- Last successful call: 2026-06-21
- Success rate: 86% of calls made through Zero
- Activations on Zero: 7
- Provider: Scrape Creators
- Docs: https://docs.scrapecreators.com
- Website: https://scrapecreators.com
- Tags: social-media, tiktok, instagram, youtube, scraping, social, data
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/scrape-creators-youtube-channel-shorts-e3ec1463
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_rYJ1R2G-5TY8-_hM4nviB

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 scrape-creators-youtube-channel-shorts-e3ec1463
```

Example prompt: Can you pull all the Shorts videos from MrBeast's YouTube channel — I need titles, view counts, and upload dates?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to programmatically retrieve the Shorts content from a specific YouTube channel — ideal for creator analytics, content monitoring, competitive research, or building dashboards that track short-form video output. Prefer this over general YouTube APIs when you want scraping-based access without OAuth or quota concerns.

## Known failure modes

- Channel not found or invalid channel ID returns an error or empty result
- Channel has no Shorts uploaded returns an empty list
- Rate limiting or scraping block from YouTube returns an error
- Malformed channel handle or URL causes a bad request error
- Private or age-restricted channel content may be inaccessible

## How this service works

Channel Shorts

## Output

A list of Shorts videos from the specified YouTube channel, including metadata such as video IDs, titles, thumbnails, view counts, and upload/publish dates.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/scrape-creators-youtube-channel-shorts-e3ec1463/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from mpp.orthogonal.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/mpp.orthogonal.com/llms.txt)