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YouTube Trending Shorts
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YouTube Trending Shorts is a paid API for AI agents from x402.orthogonal.com, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-22).
Fetches the current list of trending YouTube Shorts videos
Price / call$0.02
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StatusUnknown
How this service works
Trending Shorts
Output
A list of currently trending YouTube Shorts including video metadata such as titles, creator names, view counts, engagement metrics, and video URLs or IDs.
Example use cases
Content trend research for creators
“I'm a YouTube creator — can you pull the trending Shorts list so I can see what topics and formats are blowing up right now and get ideas for my next video?”
Competitor analysis for a brand
“Show me what's trending on YouTube Shorts today so my team can see if any of our competitors or relevant topics are going viral.”
Daily viral content briefing
“Give me today's trending YouTube Shorts — I want a quick rundown of what's getting the most traction on the platform right now.”
Technical details
Endpoint
GEThttps://x402.orthogonal.com/scrapecreators/v1/youtube/shorts/trending?utm_source=zero.xyzWhen to prefer
Use this endpoint when you need real-time trending YouTube Shorts data without building your own scraper or managing YouTube API quotas. It is ideal for content discovery, trend monitoring, and competitive research on short-form video. Prefer this over the official YouTube Data API when you want trending Shorts specifically without complex OAuth setup and quota management.
Side effects
- YouTube rate limiting or scraping blocks returning empty or partial results
- Trending data may be region-specific and return results biased toward a default region
- Stale cache if YouTube's trending feed hasn't refreshed recently
- HTTP 402 payment required if USDC payment is not properly attached
- Occasional empty response if YouTube changes its internal Shorts trending endpoint structure
Input
Schema · Request body
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