[YouTube Search API] Wrong parsing of views in "shorts_results" section

[hesoia]

When querying YouTube API in Russian language, field "views" in "shorts_results" section is not parsed correctly. For example:

{
    "title": "World’s Most Expensive Coffee",
    "link": "https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jGAJCAuV3pQ",
    "thumbnail": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jGAJCAuV3pQ/hq720.jpg",
    "views_original": "192 млн просмотров",
    "views": 192,
    "video_id": "jGAJCAuV3pQ"
}

views should be 192000000,

 {
    "title": "Obi-Wan Drinks His Coffee",
    "link": "https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VmQh26H0HFI",
    "thumbnail": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VmQh26H0HFI/oardefault.jpg",
    "views_original": "32 тыс. просмотров",
    "views": 32,
    "video_id": "VmQh26H0HFI"
}

views should be 32000 Playground

Also, sometimes shorts are not parsed at all

[hartator]

@hesoia Thanks for reporting! 👍

We'll work on a fix for the views extraction in YouTube video shorts in Russian.

I can't reproduce the shorts array being empty like this, but we'll issue a fix for this as well if we encounter it.

[kagermanov27]

Covered in https://github.com/serpapi/SerpApi/pull/5088

[alexbarron]

Another customer reported the shorts_results being empty:

Intercom

I've been able to reproduce it consistently.

Playground

[hesoia]

Hello again,

Are there any ETAs on fixing empty shorts section? It has happened in every request for the last 3 days now. Seems like it stopped working completely.

[NateSkiles]

Hi @hesoia, unfortunately, there is no ETA for this issue at this time. However, we will be sure to provide an update here as soon as possible. Apologies for any inconvenience, and thank you for your patience while we work on a fix.