⚡ YouTube Playlist Scraper — Every Video in a Playlist (No Login, No API Key)

Scrape any public YouTube playlist without a login, cookies, or API key. Paste one or more playlist URLs (?list=...) or bare playlist IDs and get back every video in playlist order — title, view count, published time, length, channel and thumbnail. Export to JSON, CSV or Excel, call it from the API, or have results delivered straight to Notion. Just $0.40 per 1,000 videos — built for content research, catalog mirroring, competitor tracking and feeding LLM pipelines.

No account. No OAuth. No Data API quota to manage. Paste a playlist link and run.

Why this scraper wins

• 🔓 Keyless & login-free — talks to YouTube's internal InnerTube API directly. No API key, no cookies, no OAuth, no daily quota.
• 🧾 No Data API quota limits — the official YouTube Data API caps you at ~10,000 units/day; this scraper just keeps paging until the playlist ends or you hit your cap.
• 💸 Cheapest on the store — $0.40 / 1,000 videos, billed per video actually returned. No YouTube playlist scraper on Apify with an active user base charges less.
• 🔁 Full pagination — walks continuations automatically, so long playlists come back complete, in order.
• 🧹 Clean, flat records — one tidy object per video, ready for sheets, dashboards or RAG.
• 📬 Built-in Notion delivery — push every run into Notion via Apify connectors, zero extra code.
• 🚦 Honest errors — a clear diagnostic row (NO_RESULTS, BLOCKED, NETWORK...) instead of silent emptiness.

What you can scrape

Input	Example	Returns
Playlist URL	https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL...	Every video in that playlist
Playlist ID	PLrAXtmErZgOeiKm4sgNOknGvNjby9efdf	Same, from a bare id
Channel uploads / mixes	UU..., OL..., RD..., FL..., LL... ids	Works for any list-type id

Mix and match — pass several playlists at once and they're all scraped in a single run.

Input

• playlistUrls — YouTube playlist URLs containing ?list=....
• playlistIds — or bare playlist ids (PL.../UU.../OL...).
• maxItems — cap on total videos returned (default 100, max 5000). You pay per video.
• proxyConfiguration — Apify Proxy (datacenter) is enabled by default and is plenty for YouTube.
• notionConnector (optional) — Notion connector ID for automatic delivery.
• notionParentId (optional) — target Notion database / data-source id.

Output (one record per video)

{
  "ok": true,
  "videoId": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "title": "Never Gonna Give You Up",
  "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "channelName": "Rick Astley",
  "channelId": "UCuAXFkgsw1L7xaCfnd5JJOw",
  "viewCountText": "1.5B views",
  "publishedTimeText": "16 years ago",
  "lengthText": "3:33",
  "thumbnail": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dQw4w9WgXcQ/hqdefault.jpg",
  "mode": "playlist"
}

Videos are de-duplicated by videoId and emitted in playlist order.

Pricing

$0.40 per 1,000 videos ($0.0004 each), with no run-start fee — the lowest per-video price of any YouTube playlist scraper on the Apify Store with an active user base. The next cheapest, dz_omar/youtube-playlist-extractor (32 monthly users), is $1.00 per 1,000 even on its cheapest volume tier.

Flat rate: no volume tiers, no plan gates. You are charged only for videos actually returned, so samples, diagnostics, duplicates and no-result runs cost nothing. A 5,000-video run — the per-run maximum — costs $2.00.

Scheduled change: from 19 August 2026 a $0.001 run-start fee applies. The per-video price of $0.0004 is unchanged, and a run that returns nothing will then cost $0.001 instead of nothing.

FAQ

Do I need a YouTube account or API key? No. Any public or unlisted-by-link playlist works keyless — no login, no cookies, no Data API key.

Will it scrape the whole playlist? Yes. It follows continuation tokens automatically up to your maxItems cap (max 5,000 per run).

Can I scrape a channel's uploads? Yes — pass the channel's uploads playlist id (the UU... id) just like any other playlist.

Do I need a proxy? No setup needed — Apify datacenter proxy is preconfigured and sufficient for YouTube playlists.

I got a diagnostic row instead of videos — why? That's the actor telling you exactly what happened (NO_RESULTS, BLOCKED, NETWORK) instead of failing silently. Check the playlist is public and the id/URL is correct.

Billing

One charge applies today: $0.0004 per video actually delivered, and nothing else — there is no run-start fee until 19 August 2026. Samples, diagnostics, duplicates, blocked look-ups and no-result runs never incur the per-video fee.