# YouTube Shorts Details API (fetcher.sh)

> YouTube Shorts Details API (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 metadata and details for a specific YouTube Shorts video by its ID, without requiring OAuth or a YouTube account.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://youtube.fetcher.sh/api/shorts/%7Bid%7D?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-shorts-details-api-fetcher-sh-19a90cc6
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_sjXLhtvHYC3303xwzoepQ

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-shorts-details-api-fetcher-sh-19a90cc6
```

Example prompt: Can you pull the details for this YouTube Short — title, description, view count, and channel — for video ID dQw4w9WgXcQ?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need YouTube Shorts-specific metadata without setting up a YouTube Data API account or OAuth credentials, especially in agent workflows requiring pay-per-call micro-payments via USDC. Ideal for one-off lookups, automated pipelines, or environments where managing Google API keys is impractical.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or non-existent Short ID returns 404 or empty result
- Deleted or private Shorts return an error or empty response
- YouTube anti-scraping changes may cause temporary failures
- Payment failure (insufficient USDC balance) returns 402 Payment Required
- Rate limiting or abuse detection by YouTube backend may cause intermittent failures

## 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 structured metadata for the specified YouTube Short, typically including video title, description, view count, like count, channel/author information, thumbnail URLs, duration, and other available video attributes 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-shorts-details-api-fetcher-sh-19a90cc6/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)