YouTube Shorts is where a lot of the platform's growth is happening, and a channel's Shorts are a public scoreboard of what is working in short-form video for that creator. The trouble is that YouTube gives you no easy way to line up a channel's Shorts by views and study the pattern, so most people just guess.
Pulling a channel's Shorts as data ends the guessing. You give the tool a channel, and its Shorts come back as rows with views, likes, comments, the title and a link. Sort by views and the breakout videos are obvious, along with the titles and topics that drove them. Here is how.
What you can pull
- Shorts from any public YouTube channel
- View, like and comment counts
- The title and description of each Short
- The publish date
- A link to every Short
Why track Shorts as data
Short-form video is a numbers game, and on YouTube those numbers are public. With a channel's Shorts in a table sorted by views, you can see which topics and titles broke out, how often the creator posts, and how consistent their performance really is. Do it across the top channels in your niche and you have a clear map of what short-form content earns views there, which is exactly what you want before you plan your own. It is also a clean way to vet a creator: real view counts across their recent Shorts tell you far more than a subscriber number.
How to track Shorts with Tooltap
The YouTube Shorts Scraper takes the channel and returns its Shorts.
- Add the channels. Paste one or more YouTube channel URLs or handles, one per line.
- Set how many Shorts you want back per channel.
- Run it. Shorts come back as a table with views, likes, comments, titles and dates.
- Sort or read. Order by views to find the breakout videos, or read the titles to see which topics land.
- Export. Send it to CSV or push it onward for analysis.
What people use this for
- Content research. See which short-form topics and titles earn views in your niche.
- Creator vetting. Check a creator's real Shorts performance before a collaboration.
- Competitor tracking. Monitor how rival channels perform in short-form over time.
- Trend spotting. Catch the topics gaining traction across the channels you follow.
Doing this properly
The tool reads public YouTube Shorts and their public metrics, the same numbers anyone can see on the channel, and returns them as data on your instruction. You are charged only for the results that come back. Use the data for research and planning, and follow YouTube's terms and any privacy rules that apply to you.
YouTube Shorts Scraper
Pull Shorts from any YouTube channel, views, likes, comments and more.
