Get YouTube Shorts search (raw data, recommend V2)

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

Searches YouTube Shorts and returns raw YouTube data; use /get_shorts_search_v2 for cleaned results. Send search_query, with optional language_code, country_code, time_zone, filter_mixed_content and continuation_token. The first page can include long videos, which filter_mixed_content removes by default.

Tool id: tikhub-api-youtube-web-v2-get-shorts-search
Provider: TikHub
Job: Get shorts search api youtube web v2 (api.youtube.web-v2.get-shorts-search)
Price: $0.001 per call. A call that fails at the provider costs $0.

Inputs

Name	Type	Required	Description
`continuation_token`	string	no	Pagination token
`country_code`	string	no	Country code
`filter_mixed_content`	boolean	no	Filter mixed content (long videos), default True
`language_code`	string	no	Language code
`search_query`	string	yes	Search keyword
`sort_by`	string	no	Sort by for Shorts
`time_zone`	string	no	Time zone
`upload_time`	string	no	Upload time filter for Shorts

Output

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

{ code, data: { header: {}, topbar: {}, contents: {}, targetId, trackingParams, isShortsContext, responseContext: { responseId, visitorData }, estimatedResults }, docs, time, params: { time_zone, country_code, search_query, language_code, filter_mixed_content }, 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-shorts-search","input":{"search_query":"<search_query>"},"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-shorts-search",
    input: {
      search_query: "<search_query>",
    },
    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-shorts-search",
        "input": {
            "search_query": "<search_query>",
        },
        "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:api.youtube.web-v2.get-shorts-search as endpointId; see the job page.