# YouTube Shorts Trending

> YouTube Shorts Trending 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 2026-09-14).

Retrieves the current list of trending YouTube Shorts videos

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://mpp.orthogonal.com/scrapecreators/v1/youtube/shorts/trending
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: MPP
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Provider: Scrape Creators
- Docs: https://api.scrapecreators.com
- Website: https://api.scrapecreators.com
- Tags: social-media, tiktok, instagram, youtube, scraping, social, data
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/scrape-creators-youtube-shorts-trending-013da88f
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_OM0EuF18_VOMh56ChxF9U

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-shorts-trending-013da88f
```

Example prompt: What YouTube Shorts are trending right now? Pull the current trending Shorts list so I can see what's going viral today.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need real-time trending YouTube Shorts data without direct YouTube API access or quota concerns. Ideal for content trend monitoring, competitor analysis, viral content discovery, or social media dashboards focused on short-form video. Choose this over YouTube Data API when you want scraped trending data without OAuth setup or API key management.

## Known failure modes

- YouTube anti-scraping measures may cause temporary failures or empty results
- Trending data may be region-specific and not always globally representative
- Rate limiting if called too frequently
- YouTube page structure changes may temporarily break extraction

## How this service works

Trending Shorts

## Output

A list of currently trending YouTube Shorts videos, likely including video metadata such as titles, video IDs, view counts, like counts, creator/channel information, and thumbnails for each trending Short.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/scrape-creators-youtube-shorts-trending-013da88f/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)