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Trending YouTube Shorts API

YouTube has no trending page; this is the Shorts feed (about ten Shorts a page, different on each call, not a ranked chart), each with its title, channe...

GET /v1/youtube/shorts/trending

GET /v1/youtube/shorts/trending

YouTube has no trending page; this is the Shorts feed (about ten Shorts a page, different on each call, not a ranked chart), each with its title, channel, counts and date.

  • Cost: 1 credit
  • Cache: Results are kept up to 1 day; send max_age_days to reuse them for free.
  • Timeout: A request still running after about 25 seconds answers 202 with a job to poll (Batch and jobs).

Parameters#

This endpoint takes no parameters of its own.

Every request also accepts:

  • cursor: the cursor from the previous page (Pagination).
  • region: two-letter country code for results that vary by country. Changing it restarts the cursor chain.
  • trim: true for a smaller response without null fields and extra.
  • raw: true to also get the platform's original object as raw.
  • max_age_days: accept a cached result up to this many days old, for 0 credits (Caching).

Example request#

Set your key in the environment first (see Authentication).

1curl -G "https://api.socialscrape.dev/v1/youtube/shorts/trending" \2  -H "x-api-key: $SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY" \3  --data-urlencode "region=US"

Example response#

This is a sample from a recorded response, lists and long text are shortened. Status 200.

200 OKSample response
1{2  "ok": true,3  "credits_charged": 1,4  "credits_remaining": 4999,5  "cached": false,6  "cached_at": null,7  "request_id": "req_c2c12ae2b77acb61987454ea",8  "data": {9    "object": "list",10    "items": [11      {12        "object": "post",13        "platform": "youtube",14        "id": "ui1FnqizvU0",15        "url": "https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ui1FnqizvU0",16        "type": "short",17        "author": {18          "id": "UCiHAgDXiu5N93QtcFHFTDsA",19          "handle": "Rankriot78",20          "name": "Rank Riot 78",21          "url": "https://www.youtube.com/@Rankriot78",22          "avatar_url": null,23          "verified": null24        },25        "title": "Funny baby moments 😂 #usa #funny #foryou #baby #shorts #family #viral",26        "text": "Try not to laugh, but these funny baby moments will have you laughing all day. Let us know down below. What made you laugh ",27        "published_at": "2026-10-23T16:28:26Z",28        "duration_seconds": 21.0,29        "language": null,30        "hashtags": null,31        "mentions": null,32        "stats": {33          "views": 3750878,34          "likes": 26693,35          "comments": null,36          "shares": null,37          "saves": null,38          "dislikes": null39        },40        "media": {41          "thumbnail_url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ui1FnqizvU0/frame0.jpg",42          "video_url": null,43          "audio_url": null,44          "image_urls": null,45          "width": null,46          "height": null47        },48        "song": null,49        "location": null,50        "is_pinned": null,51        "is_sponsored": null,52        "extra": {53          "category": "Entertainment"54        }55      },56      {57        "object": "post",58        "platform": "youtube",59        "id": "C41Bekivrfo",60        "url": "https://www.youtube.com/shorts/C41Bekivrfo",61        "type": "short",62        "author": {63          "id": "UCsxytD-pWwEe9wiCakVeWEQ",64          "handle": "ThatPawDude",65          "name": "ThatPawDude🐶",66          "url": "https://www.youtube.com/@ThatPawDude",67          "avatar_url": null,68          "verified": null69        },70        "title": "Ranking Best Sea Lion Moments😭",71        "text": null,72        "published_at": "2026-10-29T14:00:52Z",73        "duration_seconds": 24.0,74        "language": null,75        "hashtags": null,76        "mentions": null,77        "stats": {78          "views": 104660,79          "likes": 3384,80          "comments": null,81          "shares": null,82          "saves": null,83          "dislikes": null84        },85        "media": {86          "thumbnail_url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/C41Bekivrfo/frame0.jpg",87          "video_url": null,88          "audio_url": null,89          "image_urls": null,90          "width": null,91          "height": null92        },93        "song": null,94        "location": null,95        "is_pinned": null,96        "is_sponsored": null,97        "extra": {98          "category": "Entertainment"99        }100      }101    ],102    "cursor": "GmYKCzFXbktteUZzdGxzGAkgAkJTCAoQIBo18gYyCjAKBZoBAhABGAEiAiAB6sTvvAsVEhMI74yN_tbglwMVok5MCB0ZkgVC6rrK8w0CCAwiBwoFMzI6U0gqDQoLMVduS215RnN0bHMqAhgMQgBiBFJEU0h6uwYICxgKMskBCgsxV25LbXlGc3RscxIBMBoMCL2g09YGEOiY-a4DIgYI4bn51gYqBAgNEAEyGxIHCOYBEAEY...",103    "has_more": true,104    "parent": null105  },106  "cursor": "GmYKCzFXbktteUZzdGxzGAkgAkJTCAoQIBo18gYyCjAKBZoBAhABGAEiAiAB6sTvvAsVEhMI74yN_tbglwMVok5MCB0ZkgVC6rrK8w0CCAwiBwoFMzI6U0gqDQoLMVduS215RnN0bHMqAhgMQgBiBFJEU0h6uwYICxgKMskBCgsxV25LbXlGc3RscxIBMBoMCL2g09YGEOiY-a4DIgYI4bn51gYqBAgNEAEyGxIHCOYBEAEY...",107  "has_more": true108}

Response#

A list of Post objects in data.items, with data.cursor and data.has_more.

See Data models for every field. The envelope around data is described in Responses.

Errors#

Failures are free: credits_charged is 0. Branch on error.code, never on the message.

CodeHTTPRetryMeaning
not_found404noThe platform says this profile, post or item does not exist.

Every request can also fail with the account and platform errors listed on the Errors page.