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YouTube Shorts Actor

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YouTube Shorts Actor

YouTube Shorts Actor

Developed by

Moses Bilal

Maintained by Community

Scrap YouTube_Shorts with ease. Just provide the YouTube shorts channel link or YouTube Channel name or link and we'll take it from there.

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Pricing

$20.00/month + usage

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Monthly users

4

Runs succeeded

98%

Response time

5.2 hours

Last modified

7 months ago

You can access the YouTube Shorts Actor programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.

1# Start Server-Sent Events (SSE) session and keep it running
2curl "https://actors-mcp-server.apify.actor/sse?token=<YOUR_API_TOKEN>&actors=topaz_sharingan/youtube-shorts-actor"
3
4# Session id example output:
5# event: endpoint
6# data: /message?sessionId=9d820491-38d4-4c7d-bb6a-3b7dc542f1fa

Using YouTube Shorts Actor via Model Context Protocol (MCP) server

MCP server lets you use YouTube Shorts Actor within your AI workflows. Send API requests to trigger actions and receive real-time results. Take the received sessionId and use it to communicate with the MCP server. The message starts the YouTube Shorts Actor Actor with the provided input.

1curl -X POST "https://actors-mcp-server.apify.actor/message?token=<YOUR_API_TOKEN>&session_id=<SESSION_ID>" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{
2  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
3  "id": 1,
4  "method": "tools/call",
5  "params": {
6    "arguments": {
7      "startUrls": [
8            "https://www.youtube.com/@Apify"
9      ],
10      "number_of_videos": 5,
11      "maxRequest": 5
12},
13    "name": "topaz_sharingan/youtube-shorts-actor"
14  }
15}'

The response should be: Accepted. You should received response via SSE (JSON) as:

1event: message
2data: {
3  "result": {
4    "content": [
5      {
6        "type": "text",
7        "text": "ACTOR_RESPONSE"
8      }
9    ]
10  }
11}

Configure local MCP Server via standard input/output for YouTube Shorts Actor

You can connect to the MCP Server using clients like ClaudeDesktop and LibreChat or build your own. The server can run both locally and remotely, giving you full flexibility. Set up the server in the client configuration as follows:

1{
2  "mcpServers": {
3    "actors-mcp-server": {
4      "command": "npx",
5      "args": [
6        "-y",
7        "@apify/actors-mcp-server",
8        "--actors",
9        "topaz_sharingan/youtube-shorts-actor"
10      ],
11      "env": {
12        "APIFY_TOKEN": "<YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
13      }
14    }
15  }
16}

You can further access the MCP client through the Tester MCP Client, a chat user interface to interact with the server.

To get started, check out the documentation and example clients. If you are interested in learning more about our MCP server, check out our blog post.

Pricing

Pricing model

Rental 

To use this Actor, you have to pay a monthly rental fee to the developer. The rent is subtracted from your prepaid usage every month after the free trial period. You also pay for the Apify platform usage.

Free trial

3 days

Price

$20.00