SearchAPI.io - YouTube Channel Shorts API

SearchAPI.io tool searchapi-io-youtube-channel-shorts on looot: input fields, $0.004 per call, output shape, and code to run it with curl, JavaScript or Python.

Retrieve the shorts feed of a YouTube channel, sorted by latest, popular, or oldest, with pagination support. Cross-linking: The channel ID returned by this API can be used with the YouTube Channel API to fetch detailed channel information. Short IDs are YouTube video IDs and can be used with the YouTube Video Details API to get comprehensive video information.

Tool id: searchapi-io-youtube-channel-shorts
Provider: SearchAPI.io
Job: Youtube channel shorts search (search.youtube-channel-shorts)
Price: $0.004 per call. A call that fails at the provider costs $0.

Inputs

Name	Type	Required	Description
`channel_id`	string	yes
`engine`	string	no	Fixed to “youtube_channel_shorts” for this endpoint. Example: “youtube_channel_shorts”
`gl`	string	no
`hl`	string	no
`next_page_token`	string	no
`sort_by`	string	no

Output

The run’s result holds the provider’s answer. Signed in, looot inspect searchapi-io-youtube-channel-shorts prints its fields.

Run it

Every call needs your API token in LOOOT_TOKEN; Sign in 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:

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":"searchapi-io-youtube-channel-shorts","input":{"channel_id":"<channel_id>","engine":"youtube_channel_shorts"},"wait":30}'

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: "searchapi-io-youtube-channel-shorts",
    input: {
      channel_id: "<channel_id>",
      engine: "youtube_channel_shorts",
    },
    wait: 30,
  }),
});
const run = await response.json();
console.log(run.status, run.result);

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": "searchapi-io-youtube-channel-shorts",
        "input": {
            "channel_id": "<channel_id>",
            "engine": "youtube_channel_shorts",
        },
        "wait": 30,
    },
    timeout=90,
)
run = response.json()
print(run["status"], run.get("result"))

To let looot pick among every provider of this job instead, send job:search.youtube-channel-shorts as endpointId; see the job page.