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POST
Download a YouTube Shorts video

Authorizations

Authorization
string
header
required

Bearer authentication header of the form Bearer <token>, where <token> is your auth token.

Headers

Idempotency-Key
string

Optional key for safely retrying a billable write request.

Required string length: 1 - 255

Body

application/json
url
string<uri>
required

Public YouTube Shorts URL (youtube.com/shorts/{video id}).

Response

Direct Shorts media links and normalized public video metadata.

format
string
required
quality
string
required
url
string<uri>
required
video_content_type
string
required
video_id
string
required
video_url
string<uri>
required
author
string
duration_seconds
number
thumbnail_url
string<uri>
title
string