# Algrow, $1 pack, 3-day trial, GET /api/channels/:channel_id/shorts: YouTube channel video API

> Browse a channel's Shorts, newest first — the real Shorts tab, not short-duration regular videos.

Algrow's 3-day trial plan lets you call the YouTube channel video API. We check each provider's docs for 6 fields. Algrow's docs list 4: Text, Media, Analytics, Author.
You pay $1 for 45 credits. You spend the credits on Algrow's other calls. This call is free for up to 9,000 calls in all.
We haven't run Algrow through [our YouTube channel video API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-youtube-channel-video-api.txt) yet.
This plan is a $1 pack. We rank 288 plans for YouTube channel video APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.066 or less per 1,000 videos.
[TranscriptYT's $3 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/transcriptyt/3-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 videos. TranscriptYT's $3 monthly plan charges nothing per call. You get as many videos as TranscriptYT's rate limit allows. [ScrapeUnblocker's pay-as-you-go plan](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/scrapeunblocker/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 videos a month: about $0.06.
[ShortsIntel's $10 pack (/creators/{platform}/{handle}/videos)](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/shortsintel/10-pack-top-up-10-get-creators-platform-handle-videos/llms.txt) covers any number of videos. ShortsIntel's $10 pack costs more up front than TranscriptYT's $3 monthly plan.
[ScrapeUnblocker](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/scrapeunblocker/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt), [YouTube Data API (Google)](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/youtube-data-api-google/free-default-quota-get-youtube-v3-search/llms.txt) and [EveryInfra](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/everyinfra/10-pack/llms.txt) are the best YouTube channel video API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/algrow/1-pack-3-day-trial-get-api-channels-channel-id-shorts
- [YouTube channel video API in 2026: the best of 40+ compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-youtube-channel-video-api.txt)
- Get it: https://algrow.online/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.algrow.online/api/channels/:channel_id/shorts`
- API key: with the plan, on https://algrow.online/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://algrow.online/docs/api/channel-data?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing#api-channels-channel-id-shorts
- Sold by: Algrow (https://algrow.online?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## In the answer

- Completeness: 67%
- Text: ✓
- Media: ✓
- Analytics: ✓
- Author: ✓

## Price

- Per: page of 100
- Billing: pay first

## Charges

- Repeat free: 24 hours
- Also pays for: GET /api/channels/search: 300 a day · GET /api/longform-channels/search: 300 a day · GET /api/viral-videos/search: 300 a day · GET /api/collabs/fastest-growing: 300 a day · GET /api/channel-trends: 200 a day · GET /api/channels/:channel_id/daily-analytics: 100 a day · POST /api/thumbnail-search: 40 a day · POST /api/generate-simple · POST /api/generate-image · POST /api/generate-video · POST /api/caption-remover · from the same budget: GET /api/channels/:channel_id/about · GET /api/channels/:channel_id/videos · GET /api/channels/:channel_id/playlists · GET /api/search · POST /api/youtube-scraper · POST /api/youtube-scraper/thumbnails · GET /api/channels/:channel_id/youtube-recommends · GET /api/videos/:video_id/youtube-recommends · POST /api/video-comments · POST /api/channels/resolve · GET /api/channel-monetization/:channel_id

## In their words

- Their pitch: Browse a channel's Shorts, newest first — the real Shorts tab, not short-duration regular videos.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: 24 hours
- Use data: Allowed Without Asking: Your own work. Internal tools, personal projects and automation for your own team. Your own product, for your signed-in users. A user asks for data and your product shows the result to that user. You must credit Algrow as shown below. Needs Written Permission From Algrow: Public pages. Showing Algrow data on pages that anyone can open without signing in. [...] Passing the data on. Serving Algrow data through your own API, MCP server, feed, export or download. Building a copy. Keeping Algrow data for more than 24 hours, or refreshing a fixed list of channels on a schedule to build your own database. Selling the data. Selling Algrow data, or a dataset made from it, in any form. [...] A linked label. Show a visible “Powered by Algrow” label on every page or screen that shows Algrow data. The label must link to algrow.online. [...] Do not present Algrow data as your own.

## Plan

- Pay: $1
- You get: 45 credits
- Enough for: 9,000 calls, once
- Expires: 3 days

## Rate limit

- Per day: 3,000
- Per second: 1.67 (100 a minute)
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: channel_id. Optional: limit
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/channels/:channel_id/shorts

## About the plan

- Plan: 3-day trial
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 10 fields the plan's answer can hold

success, channel ID, results returned, has more, video ID, title, video URL, view count, view count text, thumbnail

## Algrow's plans (5)

- [Algrow, $1 pack, 3-day trial, GET /api/channels/:channel_id/shorts](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/algrow/1-pack-3-day-trial-get-api-channels-channel-id-shorts/llms.txt): 67% complete, live
- [Algrow, $25 monthly, Starter, GET /api/channels/:channel_id/shorts](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/algrow/25-monthly-starter-get-api-channels-channel-id-shorts/llms.txt): $0.0028 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Algrow, $45 monthly, Professional, GET /api/channels/:channel_id/shorts](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/algrow/45-monthly-professional-get-api-channels-channel-id-shorts/llms.txt): $0.0025 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Algrow, $80 monthly, Ultimate, GET /api/channels/:channel_id/shorts](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/algrow/80-monthly-ultimate-get-api-channels-channel-id-shorts/llms.txt): $0.0022 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Algrow, $378 yearly, Professional (annual), GET /api/channels/:channel_id/shorts](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/algrow/378-yearly-professional-annual-get-api-channels-channel-id-shorts/llms.txt): $0.0018 per 1,000, 67% complete, live

## Algrow's calls for this API (2)

- `GET /api/channels/:channel_id/shorts`: [Algrow, $1 pack, 3-day trial, GET /api/channels/:channel_id/shorts](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/algrow/1-pack-3-day-trial-get-api-channels-channel-id-shorts/llms.txt)
- `GET /api/channels/:channel_id/videos`: [Algrow, $1 pack, 3-day trial, GET /api/channels/:channel_id/videos](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/algrow/1-pack-3-day-trial-get-api-channels-channel-id-videos/llms.txt)

## Algrow's APIs (3)

- [Algrow: video search API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/algrow/1-pack/llms.txt)
- [Algrow: YouTube channel API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/algrow/1-pack/llms.txt)
- [Algrow: YouTube channel video API pricing, 5 plans, GET /api/channels/:channel_id/shorts](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/algrow/1-pack-3-day-trial-get-api-channels-channel-id-shorts/llms.txt)

## Algrow: YouTube channel video API alternatives

- [ScrapeCreators, $47 pack](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/scrapecreators/47-pack/llms.txt): 67% complete, live
- [Socify, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/socify/top-up/llms.txt): 67% complete, live
- [TrueScrape, $25 pack](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/truescrape/25-pack/llms.txt): 67% complete, live
- [Scraper Api, $49 pack](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/scraper-api/49-pack/llms.txt): 67% complete, live
- [TikHub, top-up from $5.55](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/tikhub/top-up-from-5-55/llms.txt): 67% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-10.

- https://algrow.online?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing
- https://algrow.online/docs/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing
- https://algrow.online/docs/api-keys?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing
- https://algrow.online/docs/api/channel-data?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing
- https://algrow.online/docs/commercial-use?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing
- https://algrow.online/docs/credits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing
- https://algrow.online/llms-full.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing
- https://algrow.online/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=youtube-channel-video-api-pricing