Social platforms

List Shorts uploaded by a YouTube channel · YouTube API

GET/youtube/channels/{channel_id}/shorts

$min $0.001

Return the Shorts uploaded by a YouTube channel, by its `UC…` channel ID, as a cursor-paginated list. Useful for tracking a creator's short-form output and posting cadence.

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Request

curl https://api.unifapi.com/youtube/channels/{channel_id}/shorts \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $UNIFAPI_KEY"

Parameters

channel_idpathrequired
cursorquery

Overview

This operation is part of the YouTube API in the social platforms category. It uses the same Bearer token, request tracing, error model, and billing envelope as every UnifAPI endpoint, so agents can switch between platforms without custom per-vendor glue code.

Use it when a workflow needs YouTube public data alongside other social networks, but should still keep one API key, one account balance, and one predictable JSON contract.

Common agent workflows

Resolve a public YouTube identity into structured profile metadata for enrichment agents.
Refresh creator, company, or account snapshots without managing source-specific response shapes.
Give an AI agent a stable YouTube data source without building a per-platform integration.
Normalize YouTube responses into the same UnifAPI envelope used across the catalog.

Response shape

Unified envelope, platform-native fields

List-style responses return `data` as an array of top-level records plus optional `pagination` for continuation tokens or cursors.
The `billing.records_charged` field reports the charged billable-record quantity for the successful response.
If the workspace balance cannot cover every result, the response can be truncated and `billing.truncated_due_to_balance` tells the caller why.

Response status codes

200400401402404429500502503

Billing

This operation charges 1 credit per billable record, with a 1 credit ($0.001) operation minimum. Public responses include billing metadata with credits charged, records charged, and remaining workspace balance. Incorrect Credit deductions caused by platform failures can be restored as billing corrections.

Errors and retries

Authentication, validation, rate-limit, not-found, and provider errors use the unified UnifAPI error format. Agents should log `request_id`, retry only retryable failures, and treat invalid API keys, disabled keys, and expired keys as the same public `unauthorized` error type.

Response fields

Fields on each record in data

A successful List Shorts uploaded by a YouTube channel call returns data as an array; each record carries these fields.

idstring: YouTube video id (e.g. `oaSNBz4qMQY`).
titlestring
authorstring
channel_idstring
descriptionstring
duration_secondsnumber
view_countnumber
published_timestring: Relative time string from source (e.g. `3 weeks ago`).
is_liveboolean
categorystring

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Agents & Skills built on YouTube

You rarely call List Shorts uploaded by a YouTube channel by hand. These prebuilt agents and skills already read YouTube data inside Claude or Codex — start from one of them, or call this endpoint yourself.