YouTube Shorts Scraper API: other

Endpoint

POST https://api.muapi.ai/api/v1/youtube-fetch-shorts

Submit a job with your MuApi API key in the x-api-key header, then poll https://api.muapi.ai/api/v1/predictions/{request_id}/result until status is completed.

Parameters

cURL example

REQUEST_ID=$(curl -s -X POST https://api.muapi.ai/api/v1/youtube-fetch-shorts \
  -H "x-api-key: $MUAPI_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"channel_id":"<channel_id>","count":10,"query":null,"next":null,"hl":"English","gl":"US","upload_date":null,"type":"Video","duration":"Short (< 4 minutes)","features":null,"sort":"View Count","min_likes":"Any","min_views":"Any","min_shares":"Any","min_comments":"Any","min_duration":"Any","max_duration":"Any","hashtags":null,"published_after":null,"published_before":null}' | jq -r .request_id)

curl -s https://api.muapi.ai/api/v1/predictions/$REQUEST_ID/result -H "x-api-key: $MUAPI_API_KEY"

Python example

import os, time, requests

API = "https://api.muapi.ai/api/v1"
headers = {"x-api-key": os.environ["MUAPI_API_KEY"]}

r = requests.post(f"{API}/youtube-fetch-shorts", headers=headers, json={"channel_id":"<channel_id>","count":10,"query":null,"next":null,"hl":"English","gl":"US","upload_date":null,"type":"Video","duration":"Short (< 4 minutes)","features":null,"sort":"View Count","min_likes":"Any","min_views":"Any","min_shares":"Any","min_comments":"Any","min_duration":"Any","max_duration":"Any","hashtags":null,"published_after":null,"published_before":null})
request_id = r.json()["request_id"]

while True:
    res = requests.get(f"{API}/predictions/{request_id}/result", headers=headers).json()
    if res["status"] == "completed":
        print(res["outputs"]); break
    if res["status"] == "failed":
        raise RuntimeError(res.get("error"))
    time.sleep(3)