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title: "Scrape Creators API / Channel Shorts"
description: "ScrapeCreators tool scrapecreators-youtube-channel-shorts on looot: input fields, $0.00188 per call, output shape, and code to run it with curl, JavaScript or Python."
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Retrieves a paginated list of short-form videos (Shorts) from a YouTube channel, including each short's title, URL, view count (views), likes, comments, and description. Supports sorting by newest or popular, and use the continuationToken to page through all results. Returns data in the shorts array. Send one of: handle, channelId.

- **Tool id:** `scrapecreators-youtube-channel-shorts`
- **Provider:** [ScrapeCreators](/providers/scrapecreators)
- **Job:** [List a YouTube channel's Shorts](/reference/jobs/youtube-channel-shorts) (`youtube.channel.shorts`)
- **Price:** $0.00188 per call. A call that fails at the provider costs $0.

## Inputs

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `channelId` | string | no |   |
| `continuationToken` | string | no |   |
| `handle` | string | no |   |
| `sort` | string | no | Example: "newest" |

## Output

The run's `result` holds the provider's answer. Signed in, `looot inspect scrapecreators-youtube-channel-shorts` prints its fields.

## Run it

Every call needs your API token in `LOOOT_TOKEN`; [Sign in](/get-started/sign-in#use-the-token-in-scripts-and-agents) shows how to get one. Each run also needs a new idempotency key, so a retry never pays twice. With `wait: 30` the answer comes back inline when the run ends within 30 seconds. Otherwise you get the running run back: poll `GET /v1/runs/<runId>`.

Example input with placeholder values:

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```bash curl
curl -X POST "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LOOOT_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -d '{"endpointId":"scrapecreators-youtube-channel-shorts","input":{"sort":"newest","handle":"<handle>","channelId":"<channelId>","continuationToken":"<continuationToken>"},"wait":30}'
```

```js JavaScript
const response = await fetch("https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.LOOOT_TOKEN}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Idempotency-Key": crypto.randomUUID(),
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    endpointId: "scrapecreators-youtube-channel-shorts",
    input: {
      sort: "newest",
      handle: "<handle>",
      channelId: "<channelId>",
      continuationToken: "<continuationToken>",
    },
    wait: 30,
  }),
});
const run = await response.json();
console.log(run.status, run.result);
```

```python Python
import os
import uuid

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['LOOOT_TOKEN']}",
        "Idempotency-Key": str(uuid.uuid4()),
    },
    json={
        "endpointId": "scrapecreators-youtube-channel-shorts",
        "input": {
            "sort": "newest",
            "handle": "<handle>",
            "channelId": "<channelId>",
            "continuationToken": "<continuationToken>",
        },
        "wait": 30,
    },
    timeout=90,
)
run = response.json()
print(run["status"], run.get("result"))
```

</CodeGroup>

To let looot pick among every provider of this job instead, send `job:youtube.channel.shorts` as `endpointId`; see [the job page](/reference/jobs/youtube-channel-shorts).