YouTube Shorts Dataset: 100,000+ Short-Form Videos
A YouTube Shorts dataset of 68,699 short-form video records (metadata only), collected by JamilAL01 via the YouTube Data API (GitHub, 2025). Each record contains video title, description, tags, channel info, category, and engagement metrics (views, likes, comments, duration). metadata-only corpus with no video files — purely textual and categorical fields enabling content and engagement analysis without requiring video storage or processing. Suitable for short-form video trend analysis, content categorization, engagement prediction, and creator behavior modeling.
Cite this dataset at
youtube-shorts.echo.directory
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Sampled: text metrics from 50K of 68.7K records; topic model from 20K.
Record
- Catalog key
youtube-shorts- Authors
- JamilAL01
- Year
- 2025
- Source paper
- YouTube Shorts Dataset: Metadata for 100,000+ Short-Form Videos
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) (CC-BY-NC-4.0)
- Records
- 68,699
- Text corpus
- video metadata
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 2025 (2020s)
- Region
- Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)
Provenance
- Originally published at
- https://github.com/JamilAL01/YouTube-Shorts-Dataset link checked
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 65.4 MB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.
How to cite
BibTeX
@misc{echo2026,
title = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
year = {2026},
url = {https://echo.directory},
note = {Syracuse University}
}
@dataset{jamilal2025youtube,
title = {{YouTube Shorts Dataset: Metadata for 100,000+ Short-Form Videos}},
author = {JamilAL01},
year = {2025},
publisher = {GitHub},
url = {https://github.com/JamilAL01/YouTube-Shorts-Dataset}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
JamilAL01 (2025). YouTube Shorts Dataset: 100,000+ Short-Form Videos [Data set]. https://youtube-shorts.echo.directory/
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
JamilAL01. YouTube Shorts Dataset: 100,000+ Short-Form Videos. 2025, youtube-shorts.echo.directory/.