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YouTube Playlist Scraper

Enumerate every video inside any public YouTube playlist — title, channel, position, length, and thumbnails — in a clean structured JSON output, one row per video.

Why use this actor

• No account / no login required — just paste a playlist URL or ID.
• No API key needed — no YouTube Data API quotas, no OAuth, no key rotation; you get the same data the YouTube web app shows.
• Flexible input — full URLs (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=...), watch-with-list URLs (watch?v=...&list=...), or raw playlist IDs (PLxxxx, RDxxxx, OLAKxxxx) are all accepted.
• Automatic pagination — chains continuation tokens internally to walk playlists of any length, from a 10-video tutorial series to a 5,000-video music archive.
• Preserves playlist order — every record carries its index field, so you can reconstruct the playlist exactly as the creator ordered it.
• Stable JSON output suitable for pipelines, spreadsheets, and databases — every row carries the _input, _playlistId, _source, _scrapedAt envelope fields so you can join results back to your input list.

How it works

1. You provide a list of YouTube playlist URLs or playlist IDs.
2. The actor fetches the playlist, walks through every page of videos, and emits one flat JSON record per video (with videoId, title, channelTitle, position, length, and thumbnails).
3. Results stream into your dataset, ready to download as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

You do not need to manage scrapers, browsers, or rotating IPs — all handled internally.

Input

{
"playlists":[
"https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0xfS3j79Q27O1m6o5O92yxVTgtw1xEc9",
"PLrAXtmErZgOeiKm4sgNOknc9TTnMPEBL5"
],
"maxItems":100,
"proxyConfiguration":{
"useApifyProxy":true,
"apifyProxyGroups":["DATACENTER"]
}
}

Output

Input: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0xfS3j79Q27O1m6o5O92yxVTgtw1xEc9

{
"videoId":"cMV4-xekoaY",
"index":"1",
"title":"Kay Flock - Being Honest (shot by RingRing Visuals)",
"lengthSeconds":"156",
"lengthText":"2:36",
"channelTitle":"Kay Flock",
"channelId":"UC2HMnUWiitQph86vY2VZO5Q",
"thumbnails":[
{
"url":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/cMV4-xekoaY/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEbCKgBEF5IVfKriqkDDggBFQAAiEIYAXABwAEG&rs=AOn4CLB96o9AJ9v1y1K1ymRckyTpP2vyug",
"width":168,
"height":94
},
{
"url":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/cMV4-xekoaY/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEcCNACELwBSFXyq4qpAw4IARUAAIhCGAFwAcABBg==&rs=AOn4CLABeeJrV937NnKI3aFzBpuAsTH5RQ",
"width":336,
"height":188
}
// ... 2 more
],
"_input":"https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0xfS3j79Q27O1m6o5O92yxVTgtw1xEc9",
"_playlistId":"PL0xfS3j79Q27O1m6o5O92yxVTgtw1xEc9",
"_source":"S1-primary",
"_scrapedAt":"2026-05-18T10:43:39.481731+00:00"
}

{
"videoId":"KNexS61fjus",
"index":"2",
"title":"LE SSERAFIM (르세라핌) 'Smart' OFFICIAL MV",
"lengthSeconds":"194",
"lengthText":"3:14",
"channelTitle":"HYBE LABELS and LE SSERAFIM",
"channelId":null,
"thumbnails":[/* ... 4 thumbnail sizes ... */],
"_input":"https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0xfS3j79Q27O1m6o5O92yxVTgtw1xEc9",
"_playlistId":"PL0xfS3j79Q27O1m6o5O92yxVTgtw1xEc9",
"_source":"S1-primary",
"_scrapedAt":"2026-05-18T10:43:39.481731+00:00"
}

{
"videoId":"Q97pvL6GsIA",
"index":"3",
"title":"날 바라바라봐 LOOK AT ME",
"lengthSeconds":"194",
"lengthText":"3:14",
"channelTitle":"TWICE",
"channelId":"UCzgxx_DM2Dcb9Y1spb9mUJA",
"thumbnails":[/* ... 4 thumbnail sizes ... */],
"_input":"https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0xfS3j79Q27O1m6o5O92yxVTgtw1xEc9",
"_playlistId":"PL0xfS3j79Q27O1m6o5O92yxVTgtw1xEc9",
"_source":"S1-primary",
"_scrapedAt":"2026-05-18T10:43:39.481731+00:00"
}

Error envelope

Inputs that fail to parse or playlists that cannot be reached return a structured error instead of crashing the run:

{
"_input":"PLthis-id-does-not-exist",
"_playlistId":"PLthis-id-does-not-exist",
"_error":"fetch_failed",
"_errorDetail":"playlist not found or private",
"_source":"S1-primary",
"_scrapedAt":"2026-05-18T10:44:10.012345+00:00"
}

Filter on _error to triage failed rows. Common error codes:

• invalid_input — the string you passed isn't a recognizable playlist URL or ID.
• fetch_failed — the playlist is private, deleted, or the request couldn't complete after retries.

Pricing

This actor is billed per result: $3.50 per 1,000 videos (Tier 3). Each video record = 1 result. Error envelopes are not billed.

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Notes

• Playlists with more than 5,000 videos are paginated automatically — set maxItems: 0 to fetch them all, or cap with a number to control cost.
• Unlisted playlists work — as long as you have the URL (or the list=... ID), the actor will fetch them just like a public playlist.
• Truly private playlists (owner-only) are not accessible and return _error: "fetch_failed".
• "Mix" playlists (IDs starting with RD) are dynamically generated by YouTube and may return different videos on each run.
• Region-blocked or removed videos may appear with title: null or lengthText: null — filter them downstream.
• Playlist order is preserved via the index field; sort your dataset by index (as integer) to reconstruct the original order.