# YouTube Channel Shorts Fetcher — fetcher.sh

> YouTube Channel Shorts Fetcher — fetcher.sh is a paid API for AI agents from youtube.fetcher.sh, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-12).

Fetches the list of YouTube Shorts videos published by a specific channel, identified by channel ID.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://youtube.fetcher.sh/api/channel/%7Bid%7D/shorts?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-12
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/youtube-channel-shorts-fetcher-fetcher-sh-662849e4
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_6Qt8G6MVf5ALH6w-E8QvD

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 youtube-channel-shorts-fetcher-fetcher-sh-662849e4
```

Example prompt: Can you pull all the Shorts from the YouTube channel with ID UCBcRF18a7Qf58cCRy5xuWwQ and show me the titles and view counts?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to retrieve YouTube Shorts from a specific channel without requiring a Google/YouTube OAuth token or a YouTube Data API quota. Ideal for agents needing pay-as-you-go access to Shorts data with micropayments in USDC, especially when building content dashboards, competitor analysis tools, or creator monitoring workflows.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or non-existent channel ID returns empty result or 404
- Channel has no Shorts — returns empty list
- Rate limiting or payment failure (402) if USDC balance insufficient
- YouTube-side scraping blocks may cause intermittent failures or incomplete data
- Channel ID format errors may result in bad request response

## How this service works

YouTube (yt) data and scraping API: Search videos, channels, and playlists; fetch video details, comments, shorts, live streams, and trending. 15 REST endpoints from $0.005 per call — no account, no OAuth, no subscription. Pay with x402 (USDC on Base, Polygon, Arbitrum, Monad or Solana) or prepaid credits.

## Output

Returns a list of YouTube Shorts videos published by the specified channel, typically including video IDs, titles, thumbnails, view counts, and upload dates scraped from YouTube.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

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

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/youtube-channel-shorts-fetcher-fetcher-sh-662849e4/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from youtube.fetcher.sh](https://www.zero.xyz/host/youtube.fetcher.sh/llms.txt)