YouTube

Retrieve playlist metadata and items

Returns a YouTube playlist by playlist id or full playlist URL: title, URL, owning channel, video count and thumbnail, plus its videos with position, title, video id, duration, channel and view count. Pass the returned continuation_token to page through longer playlists.

get/youtube/playlist/{id}

Request

  • Base URL: https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1
  • URL: https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/youtube/playlist/{id}
  • Auth: API key in header x-api-key

Path parameters

idstring required

YouTube playlist ID or full playlist URL

Query parameters

continuation_tokenstring

Pagination token returned by a previous request

Headers

x-api-keystring required

API key required

Response

OK

codeinteger
msgstring

Example response

{
  "code": 200,
  "data": {
    "channel_id": "UCXZCJLdBC09xxGZ6gcdrc6A",
    "channel_title": "OpenAI",
    "continuation_token": "NEXT_TOKEN",
    "items": [
      {
        "badges": [
          "HD",
          "CC"
        ],
        "channel_id": "UCXZCJLdBC09xxGZ6gcdrc6A",
        "channel_thumbnail": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/example=s68-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj",
        "channel_title": "OpenAI",
        "description_snippet": "A concise walkthrough of GPT features.",
        "duration": "12:34",
        "duration_seconds": 754,
        "handle": "@OpenAI",
        "playlist_id": "PL1234567890abcdef",
        "position": 1,
        "published_text": "2 days ago",
        "short_view_count": "123K views",
        "subscriber_count": "1.93M subscribers",
        "thumbnail": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/abc123/hq720.jpg",
        "title": "ChatGPT Explained",
        "type": "video",
        "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abc123",
        "video_count": "9 lessons",
        "video_id": "abc123xyz89",
        "view_count": "123,456 views"
      }
    ],
    "playlist_id": "PL1234567890abcdef",
    "thumbnail": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/abc123xyz89/hqdefault.jpg",
    "title": "OpenAI Podcast",
    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1234567890abcdef",
    "video_count": "12 videos"
  },
  "msg": "OK"
}

Changes

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