Detect and tag Shorts in Youtube feeds

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Here’s the problem since we use the YouTube API:

:record_button: Based on my research, the YouTube Data API v3 does not have a field to identify Shorts. This is a known gap - there’s an Google Issue Tracker asking for this.

The API returns contentDetails, snippet, and statistics but none contain a “isShort” indicator.

Available options:

1. Duration-based (≤60 seconds) - you said you don’t like this

2. RSS feed URL pattern - requires fetching the RSS feed (you don’t want extra fe

3. URL probing - hit youtube.com/shorts/{VIDEO_ID} for each video and check for 200 vs 303 redirect (even more fetches)

The YouTube API simply doesn’t expose this information.