YouTube Channel Shorts API
List all Shorts from any YouTube channel sorted by newest, oldest, or popular. Short-form content analytics from $0.01/call.
Fetch all YouTube Shorts uploaded by a specific channel with sorting options. Returns Shorts metadata and supports pagination via continuation tokens.
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{
"ok": true,
"data": {
"meta": {
"channelId": "..."
},
"data": [
{
"videoId": "...",
"title": "...",
"viewCountText": "5M views"
}
],
"continuation": "..."
}
}Features
Send a channel ID to /v1/youtube/channel-shorts to list every Short that creator has published, separate from their regular uploads.
Pass sort_by=newest, oldest, or popular to order a channel's Shorts — popular surfaces their best-performing short-form content.
Each entry carries videoId, title, and viewCountText (e.g. '5M views'), giving you short-form performance data per Short.
Use the continuation token to page through channels with large Shorts libraries.
Use cases
Shorts Strategy
Analyze a channel's Shorts output to understand their short-form content strategy.
Creator Benchmarking
Compare Shorts performance across channels in your niche.
Content Feed
Build a Shorts feed from specific channels for your app or platform.
Quick start
Copy this snippet and start making calls.
const res = await fetch('https://api.yepapi.com/v1/youtube/channel-shorts', {
method: 'POST',
headers: {
'x-api-key': 'YOUR_API_KEY',
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
},
body: JSON.stringify({
"id": "UCAuUUnT6oDeKwE6v1NGQxug",
"sort_by": "newest"
}),
});
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);The YouTube Channel Shorts API — a creator's Shorts, isolated
The YouTube Channel Shorts API lists the Shorts published by a specific channel, kept separate from their regular videos. Send a channel ID and sort_by (newest, oldest, popular) to /v1/youtube/channel-shorts and get a data array of Shorts — each with videoId, title, and viewCountText like '5M views' — plus a continuation token for paging.
At $0.01 per page it isolates a creator's short-form output so you can analyze their Shorts strategy on its own terms — distinct from the long-form uploads that the Channel Videos endpoint returns.
What is a YouTube Channel Shorts API?
A YouTube Channel Shorts API lists only the Shorts a given channel has published, as sortable, paginated JSON. You pass a channel ID and a sort_by value (newest, oldest, popular) and receive a data array of Shorts — videoId, title, viewCountText — with a continuation token for more. The key distinction is that it isolates short-form content from the channel's regular uploads, so you can study a creator's Shorts output as its own stream. That separation matters because Shorts and long-form videos often follow completely different cadences and performance patterns within the same channel.
Build your own Shorts-strategy analyzer
Pull a creator's Shorts sorted by popular and compare against their long-form hits (via Channel Videos) to see whether short-form is driving their growth — a question you can't answer when the two are mixed together. Benchmark several channels in a niche by their Shorts cadence and average views to map who's winning at short-form. Build a curated Shorts feed sourced from specific creators for your own app. The view counts let you rank and the sort options let you track recency or all-time performance per channel.
YouTube Channel Shorts API pricing — $0.01/call
Each page of a channel's Shorts costs $0.01 and returns a batch with a continuation token. There's no daily quota. Auditing the Shorts output of a set of competitor channels is a cent per page each. The official Data API doesn't separate Shorts from regular uploads, so isolating short-form per channel would otherwise mean filtering the full uploads list yourself — here it's a dedicated endpoint at a flat per-call rate.
Channel Shorts vs. Channel Videos — separating the formats
Channel Videos returns a creator's long-form uploads; Channel Shorts returns their short-form Shorts. Keeping them apart is what enables real strategy analysis — you can compare how a channel performs across formats, track each cadence independently, and avoid Shorts skewing your long-form averages. Run both on the same channel ID for a complete picture of everything a creator publishes, then drill into individual items with the Shorts Info or Video Details endpoints.
Try the YouTube Channel Shorts API free
Get $5 in free credit at signup, no card required — 500 pages. Pull a creator's Shorts sorted by popular and by newest to see their short-form output isolated before building your analyzer.
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Frequently asked questions
Fetch all YouTube Shorts uploaded by a specific channel with sorting options. Returns Shorts metadata and supports pagination via continuation tokens.
Each API call costs $0.01. No monthly minimums or subscriptions — you only pay for what you use.
Sign up for a free API key, then send a POST request to /v1/youtube/channel-shorts. Check the code example above for a ready-to-use snippet in JavaScript, cURL, or Python.
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