YouTube Shorts Info API
YouTube Shorts metadata API — title, channel, views, and engagement for any Short. Short-form content analytics from $0.01/call.
Fetch full metadata for a YouTube Short including title, channel, view count, and more. Supports geo targeting for region-specific data.
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{
"ok": true,
"data": {
"id": "...",
"title": "...",
"channelTitle": "...",
"viewCount": "5M"
}
}Features
Send a Short's video ID to /v1/youtube/shorts-info and get its title, channelTitle, and viewCount — the full record for a single short-form video.
Pass a geo code to fetch region-specific metadata, useful where a Short's availability or numbers differ by country.
Returns the same JSON shape as the video metadata endpoints, so existing video-handling code works on Shorts unchanged.
Accepts the standard 11-character video ID that identifies any YouTube Short, no special format required.
Use cases
Shorts Analytics
Collect metadata and engagement metrics for YouTube Shorts in your analytics pipeline.
Short-Form Content Research
Analyze Shorts metadata to understand what makes short-form content perform well.
Creator Tools
Build tools that help creators track and analyze their Shorts performance.
Quick start
Copy this snippet and start making calls.
const res = await fetch('https://api.yepapi.com/v1/youtube/shorts-info', {
method: 'POST',
headers: {
'x-api-key': 'YOUR_API_KEY',
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
},
body: JSON.stringify({
"id": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
"geo": "US"
}),
});
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);The YouTube Shorts Info API — metadata for one Short
The YouTube Shorts Info API returns the full metadata record for a single Short. Send its video ID (and optional geo) to /v1/youtube/shorts-info and get title, channelTitle, and viewCount — the same fields and JSON shape as the regular video-info endpoints, scoped to short-form content.
At $0.01 per call it's the per-Short detail lookup for short-form analytics: enrich a list of Short IDs with engagement data, or track how individual Shorts perform over time, using code you may already have for regular videos.
What is a YouTube Shorts Info API?
A YouTube Shorts Info API returns the metadata for a single YouTube Short given its video ID — title, channel, view count, and related fields — with optional geo targeting for regional values. Shorts are YouTube's vertical short-form videos, and while they carry standard 11-character video IDs, treating them as a distinct content type makes short-form analytics cleaner. This endpoint returns the same JSON shape as the regular video metadata endpoints, so it's the detail-level read for one Short: you have an ID, you want its current stats and title, you call this.
Build your own Shorts analytics tool
Collect a set of Short IDs — from the Shorts Feed or Channel Shorts endpoints — and run Shorts Info on each to attach title, channel, and viewCount, building a short-form performance table. Track the same Shorts on a schedule to chart how quickly views accumulate, which for short-form content often spikes hard and early. Because the response matches the regular video shape, you can fold Shorts into an existing video analytics pipeline without new parsing code. It's the per-item enrichment step behind any creator-facing Shorts dashboard.
YouTube Shorts Info API pricing — $0.01/call
Each Short lookup costs $0.01 and returns its full metadata record. There's no daily quota, so enriching hundreds or thousands of Short IDs scales linearly and cheaply. The official Data API doesn't distinguish Shorts as a separate type and meters all video reads against your unit budget; here you get a Shorts-aware lookup at a flat cent per call, on the same key as the rest of the YouTube suite.
Shorts Info vs. the Shorts feeds
Shorts Info reads one Short by ID. To discover Shorts in the first place, use the Shorts Feed endpoint (the general short-form feed) or the Channel Shorts endpoint (a specific creator's Shorts). The natural flow is discovery then detail: pull a feed to get Short IDs, then call Shorts Info on the ones you care about for full metadata and tracking. The three together cover finding, listing, and analyzing short-form content end to end.
Try the YouTube Shorts Info API free
Get $5 in free credit at signup, no card required — 500 Short lookups. Pull metadata for any Short and confirm the fields match your existing video-handling code before scaling your short-form analytics.
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Frequently asked questions
Fetch full metadata for a YouTube Short including title, channel, view count, and more. Supports geo targeting for region-specific data.
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/shorts-info. Check the code example above for a ready-to-use snippet in JavaScript, cURL, or Python.
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