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On a channel with Newest first the scan stops at the first older Short." }, "minViews": { "title": "👀 Minimum views", "minimum": 0, "type": "integer", "description": "Only Shorts with at least this many views, e.g. 100000 for viral Shorts. Skipped Shorts are free." }, "includeChannelStats": { "title": "📊 Channel subscribers and viral score", "type": "boolean", "description": "Add the channel's subscriber count and viralScore = views / subscribers (above 1: the Short reached more people than the channel has subscribers). One extra request per channel, no extra charge.", "default": true }, "country": { "title": "🌍 Country", "type": "string", "description": "Two-letter country for searches and hashtag pages (us, gb, de, in...): YouTube shows different Shorts per country.", "default": "us" }, "onlyNew": { "title": "🔔 Only new Shorts", "type": "boolean", "description": "For scheduled runs (save the input as a task and add a schedule). 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