---
title: "YouTube Channel Playlists API"
method: GET
path: "/v1/youtube/channel-playlists"
tags: ["YouTube"]
---

# YouTube Channel Playlists API

`GET /v1/youtube/channel-playlists`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.captapi.com`
- URL: `https://api.captapi.com/v1/youtube/channel-playlists`
- Auth: one of:
  - HTTP bearer
  - API key in header `X-API-Key`

Channel playlists with cursor pagination — id, title, totalVideos, thumbnailUrl.

Pass a channel URL, @handle, or UC… ID and get that channel's /playlists tab as clean JSON with nextCursor + hasMore. Each row: id (playlist list= ID — chain into /v1/youtube/playlist), url, title, totalVideos (same name as /playlist), thumbnailUrl. Flat 2 credits per page.

Docs: https://captapi.com/apis/youtube-channel-playlists

## Query parameters

- `url` string, required
- `limit` integer
- `cursor` string
- `cache` boolean

## Response `200`

Success. The data object for this endpoint.

- object
  - `success` unknown, required
  - `data` object, required
    - `url` string: Canonical URL of the item.
    - `totalReturned` integer: Number of items returned in this response.
    - `playlists` object[]
      - `url` string: Canonical URL of the item.
      - `title` string: Title of this playlists item.
      - `videoCount` integer: Population video count when the source is authoritative (e.g. TikTok challenge/detail statsV2 on popular-hashtags, or a channel's uploaded-video total). Never a sample tally — sample sizes use sampleVideoCount / sampleSize.
      - `thumbnailUrl` string: Thumbnail image URL.

## Other responses

- `400`: Bad request: wrong platform URL, unknown endpoint, or an invalid parameter value. Not billed.
- `401`: Missing, invalid or revoked API key. Not billed.
- `402`: Not enough credits for this request. Not billed.
- `404`: The resource does not exist or is not public. Not billed.
- `422`: A required parameter is missing or has the wrong type. Not billed.
- `429`: Rate limit reached. Wait for Retry-After seconds. Not billed.
- `502`: The platform could not be reached or returned nothing usable. Retryable, not billed. 503 and 504 use the same envelope.

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