# StableSocial YouTube Trending Shorts Scraper

> StableSocial YouTube Trending Shorts Scraper is a paid API for AI agents from stablesocial.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.06/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Scrapes and returns currently trending YouTube Shorts content and metadata

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://stablesocial.dev/api/sc/youtube/shorts/trending
- Price: $0.06/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/stablesocial-youtube-trending-shorts-scraper-bcffe432
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_q2kyWY1gZ0eo41lSZvGnS

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 stablesocial-youtube-trending-shorts-scraper-bcffe432 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Pull the current trending YouTube Shorts so I can see which videos and creators are going viral right now — I want titles, view counts, and creator details.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need real-time trending YouTube Shorts data without managing your own scraping infrastructure. It is ideal for content researchers, social media managers, and brand strategists who want pay-per-use access to YouTube Shorts trending data at $0.06 per call without committing to a subscription. Prefer this over general YouTube Data API v3 when you specifically want trending Shorts (not regular videos) and want to avoid quota management.

## Known failure modes

- YouTube rate limiting or anti-scraping measures causing empty or partial results
- Stale trending data if YouTube's trending feed updates faster than scrape cadence
- Network timeout if YouTube pages load slowly
- HTTP 402 payment required if x402 payment header is missing or malformed
- Empty result set if YouTube Shorts trending feed is temporarily unavailable

## How this service works

Scrape Creators · YouTube — Trending Shorts

## Output

Returns a list of currently trending YouTube Shorts including video metadata such as titles, view counts, like counts, creator/channel information, video URLs, thumbnails, and engagement metrics reflecting what is trending on YouTube Shorts at time of request.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method",
    "bodyType",
    "body"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "body": {
     "type": "object",
     "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
     "properties": {},
     "additionalProperties": false
    },
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "POST",
      "PUT",
      "PATCH"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "bodyType": {
     "enum": [
      "json",
      "form-data",
      "text"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/stablesocial-youtube-trending-shorts-scraper-bcffe432/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from stablesocial.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/stablesocial.dev/llms.txt)