# SiteCheck Shop & Social – YouTube Shorts Lister

> SiteCheck Shop & Social – YouTube Shorts Lister is a paid API for AI agents from api.shopsocial-api.workers.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-29).

Returns the latest ~48 Shorts from a YouTube channel's public Shorts page, including video ID, title, view count text, URL, and thumbnail.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.shopsocial-api.workers.dev/api/social/youtube-shorts?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-29
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/sitecheck-shop-social-youtube-shorts-lister-2d630cd9
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_r0viZn7hUSAhmFSvFDpiM

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 sitecheck-shop-social-youtube-shorts-lister-2d630cd9
```

Example prompt: Can you pull the latest Shorts from the @mkbhd YouTube channel — I want the titles, view counts, and thumbnail links for up to 48 videos?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a quick, structured listing of a YouTube channel's latest Shorts (up to ~48) including view counts and thumbnails, without needing likes, comments, or exact durations. It is ideal for social monitoring, influencer research, and content audits where public Shorts metadata is sufficient and a cost of $0.002 per call is acceptable.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or non-existent channel handle returns an error or empty shorts array
- Channel has no Shorts tab or zero Shorts results in an empty array
- YouTube rate limiting or page structure changes may cause scrape failures
- Handle format violations (outside 3-30 chars, invalid characters) will fail schema validation
- Private or age-restricted channels may return no results

## How this service works

Pay-per-call e-commerce, product, price and social media data tools for AI agents, from public sources. Payment: x402, USDC on Base, Solana, Arc, Polygon, Arbitrum, Monad, World Chain, Optimism, Avalanche, Celo or Stellar, or RLUSD/XRP on the XRP Ledger. No signup, no API key; a failed call is not charged.

## Output

A JSON object containing: the channel handle, a source URL, a checkedAt timestamp, the count of Shorts found (up to 48), and an array of Shorts each with videoId, title, views (formatted text like '25 thousand'), a full YouTube Shorts URL, and a thumbnail image URL.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "handle"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "handle": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Channel handle, with or without @ (e.g. @YouTube). 3-30 letters, digits, . _ -"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "shorts": [
   {
    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6yX9tINzYf0",
    "title": "so that’s what ladybugs look like @aaronyooz",
    "views": "25 thousand",
    "videoId": "6yX9tINzYf0",
    "thumbnail": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6yX9tINzYf0/frame0.jpg"
   },
   {
    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0HAETg7L15o",
    "title": "if dress rehearsal is any indication, this will be a great (and slightly chaotic) episode",
    "views": "17 thousand",
    "videoId": "0HAETg7L15o",
    "thumbnail": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/0HAETg7L15o/frame0.jpg"
   }
  ],
  "source": "https://www.youtube.com/@YouTube/shorts?hl=en&gl=US",
  "channel": "@YouTube",
  "checkedAt": "2026-10-23T09:37:48.489Z",
  "shortCount": 48
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/sitecheck-shop-social-youtube-shorts-lister-2d630cd9/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.shopsocial-api.workers.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.shopsocial-api.workers.dev/llms.txt)