# YouTube Trending Shorts

> 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

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://x402.orthogonal.com/scrapecreators/v1/youtube/shorts/trending?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-22
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/youtube-trending-shorts-cf803ab8
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_rhuq6WYRrJ4kyUOTl-eT4

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-trending-shorts-cf803ab8
```

Example prompt: What YouTube Shorts are trending right now? Pull the current list of viral Shorts so I can see what's popular.

## When to prefer this

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.

## Known failure modes

- 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

## 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.

## 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",
     "properties": {}
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/youtube-trending-shorts-cf803ab8/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from x402.orthogonal.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/x402.orthogonal.com/llms.txt)