YouTube Shorts Metadata Extractor for Channels & Hashtags
YouTube Shorts Metadata Extractor for Channels & Hashtags produces creator, page and audience lists: social profiles, channels, pages and the people who engage with them. Columns include name or title, type, video id, view count, likes, duration. Contact and quality columns: websites.
Useful for influencer and community outreach; these are profiles, not street addresses.
The columns you get
- Name or title
- Type
- Video id
- View count
- Likes
- Duration
- Upload date
- Link
- Hashtags
- Sound title
- Channel name
- Channel id
- Thumbnail link
- View count text
- Comments count
- Duration seconds
- Publish date
- Category
- Matched sound title
- Caption languages
- Channel link
- Channel username
- Channel description
- Channel joined date
- Channel location
- Channel avatar link
- Channel banner link
- Channel total videos
- Channel total views
- Number of subscribers
- Is channel verified
- Is members only
- Input channel link
- Source type
- Source
- Order
- Comments turned off
From the published output schema, checked 2026-11-13.
What it costs
- 100 rows in one run$0.50
- 1,000 rows in one run$1.39
- 10,000 rows in one run$10.30
Free-plan prices: $0.99 per 1,000 results plus a $0.40 start fee (4 GB run) per run, plus Apify platform usage at $0.20 per compute unit. The Free plan includes $5 a month (Apify pricing).
What you fill in
- Input mode
Where to find Shorts. 'channel' reads a channel's Shorts tab, 'hashtag' a hashtag's Shorts feed, 'search' YouTube search results filtered to Shorts, 'direct' s… - Channel urls
YouTube channel URLs, handles (@username), or channel IDs (UCxxx). Required when inputMode is 'channel'. - Hashtags
Hashtags to scrape Shorts from (e.g. #cooking, sports). Required when inputMode is 'hashtag'. Include or omit the # prefix. - Search queries
Keywords to search on YouTube, keeping only Shorts results. Required when inputMode is 'search'. - Short urls
Shorts URLs, youtu.be links, watch URLs, or 11-character video IDs. Required when inputMode is 'direct'; used as the sound seeds when inputMode is 'sound'. - Sort shorts by
Order of the channel's Shorts tab, matching the buttons YouTube shows: newest first (default), most popular, or oldest first. Falls back to newest when a chann… - Max shorts
Maximum number of Shorts to return per channel, hashtag or search query (per run in direct mode). - Include details
Visit each Short's page for exact views, likes, comment count, publish date, duration, category, sound and captions. Turn off for a faster, cheaper listing-onl… - Include members only
Channel mode only. Also collect members-only Shorts when YouTube offers the 'Members only' filter on that channel's Shorts tab (a gradual rollout — the actor r… - Oldest post date
Only include Shorts published on or after this date. Format: YYYY-MM-DD. Leave empty to include all. Works in channel, search and direct modes; hashtag mode ne…
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Questions
What does YouTube Shorts Metadata Extractor for Channels & Hashtags cost?
$0.99 per 1,000 results on the Apify Store (Free plan), plus a start fee per GB of run memory and Apify platform usage: one run of 1,000 rows costs about $1.39 before platform usage. The Free plan includes $5 a month.
Do I need to code to use it?
No. You fill in a form on the Apify Store page, start the run and download the results as CSV, Excel or JSON. You need a free Apify account.
Is it a good fit for a business list?
Useful for influencer and community outreach; these are profiles, not street addresses.