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Google Shorts API

The Google Shorts API retrieves short video results from Google search with thumbnails, GIF previews, account names, and publication dates.

Endpoint: https://api.scrapingdog.com/google_shorts

API Parameters

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Scrapingdog Parameters

  • api_key Required
    Your personal API key. Available on your dashboard

    Type: String
  • html Optional
    This will return the full HTML of the Google page.

    Default Value - false

    Type - Boolean
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Search Query

  • query Required
    This is a Google query. Example: query=shoes
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Geographic Location and Localization

  • domain Optional
    To obtain local results from a specific country, for example, for India, it will be "google.co.in," and for the UK, it will be "google.co.uk". For a complete list of supported domains, see the Google Domains Page.

    Default: google.com

    Type: String
  • country Optional
    This parameter specifies the country for the Google search using a two-letter country code (e.g., US for the United States, UK for the United Kingdom, or FR for France). For a complete list of supported countries, see the Google Country Parameter.

    Default Value - us

    Type - String
  • uule Optional
    It is a parameter that specifies the geographic location or locale for which the search results should be tailored. Possible Value could be w+CAIQIFJlbGF5IFN0YXRlcw==

    Type - String
  • language Optional
    Language of the results. Possible Values - en, es, fr, de, etc. For a complete list of supported languages, see the Google Language Page.

    Default Value - en

    Type - String
  • lr Optional
    Limit the search to one or multiple languages. It is used as lang_{language code}. For a complete list, see the Google LR Language Page.

    Type - String
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️ Advanced Filters

  • tbs Optional
    to be searched - An advanced parameter to filter search results.

    Type: String
  • safe Optional
    To filter the adult content set safe to active or to disable it set off.

    Type: String [active/off]

    Default: off
  • nfpr Optional
    It excludes the result from an auto-corrected query that is spelled wrong. It can be set to 1 to exclude these results or 0 to include them.

    Type: Boolean

    Default: 0
  • start Optional
    Used for skipping a particular number of results (e.g., start=12 skips the first 12 results)

API Examples

Code to Integrate
curl "https://api.scrapingdog.com/google_shorts?api_key=APIKEY&query=football&country=us"
API Response
{
  "short_videos_results": [
    {
      "title": "Our 2025 record will be ______ #Washington #Commanders",
      "source": "YouTube",
      "thumbnail": "https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:...",
      "gif_url": "https://encrypted-vtbn0.gstatic.com/video?q=tbn:...",
      "account_name": "Washington Commanders",
      "date": "May 15, 2025"
    }
  ]
}