# YouTube Playlist Scraper - Videos of Any Playlist (`aolmo/youtube-playlist`) Actor

All the videos of any public or unlisted YouTube playlist by URL or id: title, channel, views, date, duration, thumbnail and position, plus playlist title, owner, video count, views and last update. Up to 5,000 videos. No API key. New videos flagged on scheduled runs. $0.0005 per video.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/aolmo/youtube-playlist.md
- **Developed by:** [Antonio del Olmo Tena](https://apify.com/aolmo) (community)
- **Categories:** Videos, Social media
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.50 / 1,000 video scrapeds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

Scrape every video of a YouTube playlist by URL or id, without an API key and without quota. Paste playlist URLs and get one row per video with position, title, channel, views, date, duration and thumbnail, plus the playlist title, description, owner, number of videos, total views and last update. Up to 5,000 videos per playlist. Schedule it and videos added to the playlist are flagged: course and series tracking, content archiving, competitor playlists and curation at $0.0005 per video.

The Actor uses YouTube's internal web API (the one the site uses), through rotating IPs, so there is no daily quota. Public and unlisted playlists work; private ones do not.

### What you get

**Video** (one row each): `position`, `id`, `url`, `title`, `channelId`, `channelName`, `channelUrl`, `durationText`, `durationSeconds`, `viewsText`, `views`, `publishedText`, `publishedAt` (approximate, from the relative text), `thumbnailUrl`, `isLive`.

**Playlist** (on every row): `playlistId`, `playlistUrl`, `playlistTitle`, `description`, `ownerName`, `ownerId`, `ownerUrl`, `videoCountText`, `videoCount`, `viewsText`, `views`, `updatedText`, `unlisted`, `videosFound`.

**Changes** on scheduled runs: `isNew` is true for videos that were not in the playlist in the previous run (null on the first run).

Playlists that do not exist or are private return a row with an `error` field and are not charged.

### How to use it

1. Open the **Input** tab.
2. Add **Playlist URLs or ids**, one per line (up to 200 per run): `https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL...`, a watch URL with `&list=`, or the id itself.
3. Set **Max videos per playlist** if you only need the first ones.
4. Click **Start** and export the rows as JSON, CSV or Excel.

### Input

```json
{
  "playlists": ["https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOU2XLYxmsIIAOskSyap13n9W-xOt_GP5"],
  "maxVideos": 200
}
```

### Output

```json
{
  "playlistId": "PLOU2XLYxmsIIAOskSyap13n9W-xOt_GP5",
  "playlistTitle": "Google I/O 2026 Keynotes",
  "ownerName": "Google for Developers",
  "videoCount": 14,
  "views": 61795,
  "position": 1,
  "id": "wYSncx9zLIU",
  "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYSncx9zLIU",
  "title": "Google I/O '26 Keynote",
  "views": 9200000,
  "publishedText": "Streamed 5 months ago",
  "durationText": "1:51:16",
  "isNew": null,
  "timestamp": "2026-10-20T10:00:00.000Z"
}
```

### Pricing

Pay per event: **$0.0005 per video** and **$0.001 per new video** detected on a scheduled run. Empty, private or missing playlists are free. A playlist of 200 videos costs $0.10.

### Limits and notes

- Views and dates are the rounded values YouTube shows in lists; the channel of each video comes as YouTube lists it (some playlist layouts omit it). For exact numbers use the **YouTube Video Details Scraper**.
- The Actor never bypasses logins, CAPTCHAs or rate limits.

### Related Actors

- **YouTube Scraper**: videos of a channel or a search.
- **YouTube Video Details Scraper**: exact views, likes, comments, tags and chapters.
- **YouTube Transcript Scraper**: subtitles of any video.

# Actor input Schema

## `playlists` (type: `array`):

One per line: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL..., a watch URL with \&list=, or the id. Up to 200 per run.

## `maxVideos` (type: `integer`):

Also caps what you pay.

## `product` (type: `string`):

Internal. Leave as is.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "playlists": [
    "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOU2XLYxmsIIAOskSyap13n9W-xOt_GP5"
  ],
  "maxVideos": 50,
  "product": "youtube-playlist"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

Dataset items: url, changed, events, data, timestamp and error (when the target failed).

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "playlists": [
        "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOU2XLYxmsIIAOskSyap13n9W-xOt_GP5"
    ],
    "maxVideos": 50
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("aolmo/youtube-playlist").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "playlists": ["https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOU2XLYxmsIIAOskSyap13n9W-xOt_GP5"],
    "maxVideos": 50,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("aolmo/youtube-playlist").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "playlists": [
    "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOU2XLYxmsIIAOskSyap13n9W-xOt_GP5"
  ],
  "maxVideos": 50
}' |
apify call aolmo/youtube-playlist --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,aolmo/youtube-playlist"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/Ihge76v9kTeTtQWuQ/builds/7WmZYghP5hgP44UTn/openapi.json