YouTube Playlist Scraper: Videos & Metadata

YouTube playlist scraper: paste playlist links (or find playlists by search words or a channel link) and get every video in playlist order with its true position, exact views, likes and comment counts, exact publish time, duration, description, tags and channel stats, plus the playlist's own title, owner, video count, views and last update on every row. Deleted and private entries keep their places and are listed with YouTube's reason, never charged. No login, no YouTube API key, no browser.

#	🎬 Video	📺 Channel	👀 Views	❤️ Likes	💬 Comments	📅 Published	⏱️ Length
1	Crystal Castles - Alice Practice (Music Video)	xxzxcuzx me!	17,924	716	35	2022-11-12	00:02:19
2	This video is private (listed in the run summary, not charged)
3	Crystal Castles - Crimewave (Official Video)	Gastón Ossandón	576,992	12,367	488	2011-07-16	00:02:53
4	Crystal Castles - Crimewave (2007 HD Music Video)	xxzxcuzx me!	2,579	146	9	2024-07-10	00:02:50
5	Crystal Castles - "Magic Spells" - Official Video	Crystal Castles official	876,262	8,852	629	2008-03-12	00:00:55
6	Air War - Crystal Castles (Official Music Video)	WaxTrax !	13,308	522	49	2022-08-18	00:02:28
7	This video is private (listed in the run summary, not charged)
8	Crystal Castles "COURTSHIP DATING" Official	Crystal Castles official	3,384,045	48,815	1,231	2009-10-18	00:02:36
9	Vanished - Crystal Castles Music Video (Alternate)	cc	2,128	84	6	2025-01-25	00:02:42
10	This video is private (listed in the run summary, not charged)
11	Crystal Castles "TELL ME WHAT TO SWALLOW" (Home Footage Video)	Untitled Profile	31,762	1,705	50	2017-12-14	00:02:13
12	Crystal Castles - Celestica	Crystal Castles official	13,802,606	hidden	4,111	2010-07-20	00:03:28

$0.29 per 1,000 videos on Starter ($0.30 Free, $0.25 Scale, $0.22 Business). The prefilled run (50 videos of one playlist) costs about $0.0145. Nothing per run, nothing per playlist or search, and nothing for a deleted or private entry.

Plan	Price per 1,000 videos
Free	$0.30
Starter	$0.29
Scale	$0.25
Business	$0.22

What you type

Input	Example	You get
🔗 Playlist links or IDs	https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsyeobzWxl7omDoEYrrf3oXvXxa6MPgek, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXYiU_JCYtU&list=PL6Lt9p1lIRZ311J9ZHuzkR5A3xesae2pk, PL..., UU... (a channel's uploads), OLAK5uy_... (an album)	Every video of each playlist, in playlist order
📺 Channel links	https://www.youtube.com/@Fireship	That channel's playlists (its Playlists tab), each read like a link
🔍 Search words	python tutorial	The playlists, courses and podcasts YouTube's playlist search finds, each read like a link
Max videos per playlist	50	The first 50 available videos of each playlist (empty = all)
Max playlists per search or channel	10 (default)	How many playlists a search or channel link reads
Full video details	on (default)	Off: rows from the playlist pages only (position, title, duration, rounded views, relative age, channel), several times faster on huge playlists, same price

Playlist pages, watch links with &list=, music.youtube.com and mobile links all work, as do podcasts and courses. Mixes (RD...) and personal lists (Watch later, Liked videos) aren't public, so they're skipped with a note. A video that is in several of your playlists is saved and charged once, with the first playlist that lists it; the run summary says where else it appears.

Positions and unavailable entries

position is YouTube's own numbering of the playlist (1 = first). Playlists are read the way YouTube's "Show unavailable videos" option shows them, so a deleted or private entry keeps its place and the videos after it keep theirs. Without that option YouTube renumbers the list and hides entries: a 575-entry playlist showed 533 entries numbered 1 to 533 on 2026-10-16.

Deleted and private entries are never rows and never charged. The run summary (key-value store record OUTPUT) lists them for each playlist with YouTube's reason:

{
  "playlistId": "PLr5X5rpmjKVkkQyRoN9NWqhRxTtWqFgi5",
  "title": "Jonas Brothers All Music Videos",
  "status": "ok",
  "videoCount": 180,
  "listed": 180,
  "videosRead": 170,
  "unavailableCount": 10,
  "unavailable": [
    {"position": 14, "id": "sp9-c-qSgso", "reason": "This video is private"},
    {"position": 118, "id": "ej8Tt4RCI8g", "reason": "Video unavailable: It was removed following a copyright removal request by Universal Music Group"},
    {"position": 130, "id": "xFzKpvchphw", "reason": "Video unavailable: This video is no longer available because the YouTube account associated with this video has been terminated."}
  ],
  "totalDurationSeconds": 31444
}

(Shortened: this playlist has 10 unavailable entries.) The summary also gives each playlist's status (ok, notFound with YouTube's reason, empty), its total duration, and the entries saved with another playlist.

What you get in every row

Group	Fields
📍 Position	position (1 = first, YouTube's numbering)
🎬 Video	title, type (video, shorts, stream), id, url, embedUrl, text (description), descriptionLinks, hashtags, keywords (tags), category, duration, durationSeconds
🗣️ Language	originalLanguage, originalLanguageCode (the spoken language, e.g. English / en), audioTracks (dubbed audio tracks: language, name, original or automatic dub; null with one track)
📈 Stats	viewCount, likes (exact), commentsCount (exact: 1,231, not YouTube's rounded 1.2K), commentsTurnedOff
📅 Dates	date (exact publish time, UTC), uploadDate, dateText, publishedTimeText ("3 years ago"), liveStartedAt, liveEndedAt, streamType, isLiveNow
🖼️ Thumbnails	thumbnailUrl (the largest) and thumbnails: every size YouTube lists, smallest first, {url, width, height} up to 1280x720
🚩 Flags	hasCaptions, isAgeRestricted, isFamilySafe, isUnlisted, isPrivate, isMembersOnly, isPaidContent ("Includes paid promotion"), isMonetized (YouTube serves ads on it to a logged-out viewer; null on Shorts), allowRatings, availableCountries
📺 Channel	channelName, channelUrl, channelUsername, channelId, numberOfSubscribers, isChannelVerified, channelBadges ("Verified", "Official Artist Channel"), channelAvatarUrl, channelDescription, channelDescriptionLinks, channelJoinedDate, channelCreatedAt (to the second, when the run reads the channel's feed anyway), channelLocation, channelTotalVideos, channelTotalViews, collaborators
💬 Captions and previews	captionTracks (each caption track's language, name, whether it's automatic, and its link), videoPreviews (YouTube's storyboard preview images per size), isEmbeddable
🎵 Shorts	soundTitle, musicTitle, musicArtist
📃 Playlist	playlistId, playlistUrl, playlistTitle, playlistDescription, playlistType (Playlist, Podcast, Course), playlistVisibility (public, unlisted), playlistVideoCount, playlistViewCount, playlistLastUpdated, playlistLastUpdatedText, playlistThumbnailUrl, playlistOwnerName, playlistOwnerId, playlistOwnerUrl, playlistOwnerUsername
🧾 Run	input (what you typed), searchQuery (the words that found the playlist), scrapedAt

The dataset has four views: Videos, Playlists, Video details, and Channels.

Measured on the 242 rows of two runs on Apify on 2026-10-17 (the prefill and two playlists with 13 unavailable entries):

Field	Filled
position	100%
viewCount	100%
likes	98% (the rest have likes hidden by the uploader)
commentsCount	100%
date (exact time)	100%
durationSeconds	100%
text (description)	90%
keywords	87%
category	100%
thumbnails	100%
hasCaptions	100%
numberOfSubscribers	100%
channelTotalViews	100%
playlistTitle, playlistOwnerName, playlistVideoCount, playlistLastUpdated	100%

text and keywords are empty where the video has none.

Speed

On Apify at the default 512 MB: the prefill (50 videos) ran 10-16 seconds, first row after 2.3-4.5 seconds; two playlists with 192 videos ran 34-43 seconds; 1,000 entries of a channel's uploads with full video details off ran 19 seconds. apidojo's run of 10 videos from the same playlist ran 50 seconds (at its default 256 MB).

Moving from another playlist Actor

Saved inputs run here unchanged: startUrls and keywords and maxItems (apidojo), playlistUrls, maxVideosPerPlaylist and includeVideoDetails (dz_omar), startURLs (toludare). Field names differ a little:

Their field	Here
views	viewCount
comments	commentsCount (exact)
description	text
duration (seconds), lengthSeconds	durationSeconds
channel.id, channel.name, channel.handle, channel.url, channel.subscriberCount	channelId, channelName, channelUsername, channelUrl, numberOfSubscribers
channel.badges	channelBadges
isRatingsAllowed	allowRatings
isLive	isLiveNow
publishDate, relativeDate	date (exact time)
captions.captionTracks	captionTracks (and hasCaptions)
videoPreviews	videoPreviews
isEmbeddable	isEmbeddable
index, position	position
relativeUploadTime, videoInfo	publishedTimeText (and the exact viewCount)
playlistInfo.*, playlist title/videoCount/channel*	playlistTitle, playlistVideoCount, playlistOwnerName, ...
hiddenVideoCount	the run summary's unavailableCount (with every entry's position and reason)

Same playlist, same day (Crystal Castles, above; apidojo on a free account, which caps runs at 10 videos):

	apidojo/youtube-playlist-scraper	This Actor
Price	$0.50 per 1,000 videos, plus $0.025 per playlist and $0.005 per search (each with about 100 videos free)	$0.29 per 1,000 videos on Starter, nothing per playlist or search
Position in the playlist	not in its rows	position, YouTube's own numbering
The first 16 entries	10 rows: positions 1, 4, 6, 8, 11-16 (the private 2, 7 and 10 and the videos at 3, 5 and 9 left out, unreported)	13 rows (positions 1, 3-6, 8, 9, 11-16) and the 3 private entries listed with their reason
Playlist title, owner, counts, last update	not in its rows	on every row
Likes and views on the same videos	same numbers	same numbers
Comment counts	YouTube's rounded figure (1,200 for 1.2K)	exact (1,231)

Prices are from the Apify Store on 2026-10-16. Not offered here: playback stream URLs (YouTube ties them to the reading IP and expires them within hours). The caption files themselves: the YouTube Transcripts Actor downloads them.

Output

One row per video. A real row from the prefilled run, shortened:

{
  "position": 1,
  "title": "Python Tutorial 2026",
  "type": "video",
  "id": "YZkyL-f-YXY",
  "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZkyL-f-YXY",
  "embedUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/embed/YZkyL-f-YXY",
  "thumbnailUrl": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/YZkyL-f-YXY/maxresdefault.jpg",
  "viewCount": 588078,
  "likes": 4318,
  "commentsCount": 107,
  "date": "2025-09-23T12:31:03Z",
  "uploadDate": "2025-09-23T12:31:03Z",
  "dateText": "Sep 23, 2025",
  "publishedTimeText": "1 year ago",
  "duration": "00:05:21",
  "durationSeconds": 321,
  "text": "This introductory Python tutorial is perfect for those stepping into the world of programming for the very first time. I...",
  "keywords": ["telusko", "navin", "reddy", "tutorial"],
  "category": "Science & Technology",
  "hasCaptions": true,
  "isAgeRestricted": false,
  "isPrivate": false,
  "isFamilySafe": true,
  "allowRatings": true,
  "channelName": "Telusko",
  "channelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC59K-uG2A5ogwIrHw4bmlEg",
  "channelUsername": "Telusko",
  "numberOfSubscribers": 3030000,
  "isChannelVerified": true,
  "channelBadges": ["Verified"],
  "channelJoinedDate": "Apr 29, 2014",
  "channelLocation": "India",
  "channelTotalVideos": 2184,
  "channelTotalViews": 423968100,
  "playlistId": "PLsyeobzWxl7omDoEYrrf3oXvXxa6MPgek",
  "playlistUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsyeobzWxl7omDoEYrrf3oXvXxa6MPgek",
  "playlistTitle": "Python Tutorial 2026 | Complete Python Course (Beginner to Advanced) | Telusko",
  "playlistType": "Playlist",
  "playlistVisibility": "public",
  "playlistVideoCount": 54,
  "playlistViewCount": 1310698,
  "playlistLastUpdated": "2026-06-12",
  "playlistLastUpdatedText": "Last updated on Jun 12, 2026",
  "playlistOwnerName": "Telusko",
  "playlistOwnerUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/@Telusko",
  "input": "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsyeobzWxl7omDoEYrrf3oXvXxa6MPgek",
  "searchQuery": null,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-17T02:20:01Z"
}

(Some fields left out here: every row has all of the fields listed above, empty ones as null.)

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