Get YouTube channel shorts

TikHub tool tikhub-api-youtube-web-v2-get-channel-shorts on looot: input fields, $0.001 per call, output shape, and code to run it with curl, JavaScript or Python.

Returns YouTube channel’s Shorts (short videos) list. Optional inputs: channel_id, channel_url, need_format, continuation_token. Returns _format=true. continuation_token: Pagination token (optional, for next page). Supports pagination to get more shorts.

Tool id: tikhub-api-youtube-web-v2-get-channel-shorts
Provider: TikHub
Job: List a YouTube channel’s Shorts (youtube.channel.shorts)
Price: $0.001 per call. A call that fails at the provider costs $0.

Inputs

Name	Type	Required	Description
`channel_id`	string	no	Channel ID (e.g., UCuAXFkgsw1L7xaCfnd5JJOw).
`channel_url`	string	no	Ignored if channel_id is provided). Example: “https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuAXFkgsw1L7xaCfnd5JJOw”
`continuation_token`	string	no	Pagination token
`need_format`	boolean	no	Whether to format data. Example: true

Output

Shape of the run’s result, the expected shape, not yet checked against real answers:

{ code, data: { shorts: unknown[], has_more, channel_id, total_count }, docs, time, params: { channel_id, channel_url }, router, message, support, cache_url, time_zone, message_zh, request_id, time_stamp, cache_message, cache_message_zh }

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":"tikhub-api-youtube-web-v2-get-channel-shorts","input":{"channel_id":"<channel_id>","channel_url":"<channel_url>","need_format":true},"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: "tikhub-api-youtube-web-v2-get-channel-shorts",
    input: {
      channel_id: "<channel_id>",
      channel_url: "<channel_url>",
      need_format: true,
    },
    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": "tikhub-api-youtube-web-v2-get-channel-shorts",
        "input": {
            "channel_id": "<channel_id>",
            "channel_url": "<channel_url>",
            "need_format": True,
        },
        "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:youtube.channel.shorts as endpointId; see the job page.