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A URL ending in /shorts or /streams scrapes only that tab.", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "contentTypes": { "title": "Content types", "type": "array", "description": "Which channel tabs to scrape: regular videos, Shorts and/or live streams (past and current).", "items": { "type": "string", "enum": [ "videos", "shorts", "streams" ], "enumTitles": [ "Videos", "Shorts", "Live streams" ] }, "default": [ "videos" ] }, "sortBy": { "title": "Sort videos by", "enum": [ "newest", "popular", "oldest" ], "type": "string", "description": "Order of the videos, same as the Latest / Popular / Oldest buttons on the channel page.", "default": "newest" }, "maxVideos": { "title": "Max videos per channel (per content type)", "minimum": 0, "maximum": 20000, "type": "integer", "description": "Maximum videos per selected channel tab (Videos, Shorts, Streams), or per playlist. The global maxItems includes profile rows. Zero requests profile-only for channels; playlists retain their default video limit.", "default": 30 }, "includeChannelInfo": { "title": "Include channel profile (About data)", "type": "boolean", "description": "Adds one record per channel (type = \"channel\") with subscribers, total views, video count, joined date, country, description, external links, avatar and banner.", "default": true }, "includeVideoDetails": { "title": "Include exact video details (slower)", "type": "boolean", "description": "Attempt additional view, like, comment and publication metadata for videos. Slower and best effort; fields may remain missing when unavailable or blocked.", "default": false }, "maxItems": { "title": "Max total results", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 100000, "type": "integer", "description": "Hard cap on dataset items for the whole run (channel records + videos). 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