YouTube Music Playlist Scraper 🎵

Extract playlist data from YouTube Music search results based on your keywords. This actor helps you discover and analyze music playlists at scale.

🎯 Use Cases

• Music trend analysis and research
• Playlist discovery and curation
• Content recommendation systems
• Music marketing research
• Competitive analysis for music platforms

✨ Features

• Search playlists by multiple keywords
• Extract detailed playlist information:
  • Playlist title
  • Thumbnail images in various sizes
  • Playlist ID and direct URL
  • Creator information
  • Number of songs
• Customizable maximum items per search
• Built-in anti-blocking measures
• Clean, structured JSON output
• Automatic pagination handling

🔍 Output Data Structure

The actor provides data in JSON format with the following structure for each playlist:

💡 Input Parameters

• keywords (Array): List of keywords to search for playlists
• maxItems (Number): Maximum number of playlists to scrape per keyword (default: 50)

📊 Output Quality

• Clean, structured data
• Consistent format
• Real-time timestamps
• High-quality thumbnail links in multiple resolutions
• Direct playlist URLs for easy access

🚀 Getting Started

1. Input your search keywords
2. Set maximum items limit (optional)
3. Run the actor and get structured playlist data

💪 Reliability

• Built-in retry mechanism
• Random delays to prevent blocking
• Stealth browser configuration
• Efficient memory management

🎯 Ideal For

• Music Industry Professionals
• Content Creators
• Music Researchers
• Playlist Curators
• Digital Marketing Teams

Input Example

A full explanation of an input example in JSON.

1{
2    "keywords": [
3        "love"
4    ],
5    "maxItems": 70
6}

Output sample

The results will be wrapped into a dataset which you can always find in the Storage tab. Here's an excerpt from the data you'd get if you apply the input parameters above:

And here is the same data but in JSON. You can choose in which format to download your data: JSON, JSONL, Excel spreadsheet, HTML table, CSV, or XML.

1[
2    {
3        "keyword": "love",
4        "data": {
5            "title": "'80s Lost-Love Ballads",
6            "thumbnails": [
7                {
8                    "url": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/4eUpYFzbl_vvkbFKQLKh5NO3xVQpGVTNOgapMbgtw606zxhwZfPKQG0wlfGv6egYQDzyxuyVfHbhmz0=w60-h60-l90-rj",
9                    "width": 60,
10                    "height": 60
11                },
12                {
13                    "url": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/4eUpYFzbl_vvkbFKQLKh5NO3xVQpGVTNOgapMbgtw606zxhwZfPKQG0wlfGv6egYQDzyxuyVfHbhmz0=w120-h120-l90-rj",
14                    "width": 120,
15                    "height": 120
16                },
17                {
18                    "url": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/4eUpYFzbl_vvkbFKQLKh5NO3xVQpGVTNOgapMbgtw606zxhwZfPKQG0wlfGv6egYQDzyxuyVfHbhmz0=w226-h226-l90-rj",
19                    "width": 226,
20                    "height": 226
21                },
22                {
23                    "url": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/4eUpYFzbl_vvkbFKQLKh5NO3xVQpGVTNOgapMbgtw606zxhwZfPKQG0wlfGv6egYQDzyxuyVfHbhmz0=w544-h544-l90-rj",
24                    "width": 544,
25                    "height": 544
26                }
27            ],
28            "playlistId": "RDCLAK5uy_ksipJjVZdxcV7NDXwU_XH5lB3p2pne-eQ",
29            "creator": {
30                "name": "YouTube Music"
31            },
32            "songCount": "52 songs",
33            "url": "https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=RDCLAK5uy_ksipJjVZdxcV7NDXwU_XH5lB3p2pne-eQ"
34        },
35        "scrapedAt": "2025-02-09T12:52:46.772Z"
36    },
37    ...
38]