Get All Videos From a YouTube Playlist, in order

Get all videos from a YouTube playlist in order, up to 5,000 per playlist: position, title, duration, view count, publish date and thumbnail, plus the playlist title and owner. Paste playlist URLs or ids. Only delivered videos are charged. duration, publish date and thumbnail, with the playlist title, owner and total length on every row. Paste playlist URLs or ids, up to 100 playlists per run. You only pay for videos that are actually delivered.

Why this scraper

• Built on a lightweight route. This actor asks YouTube's own internal API instead of loading the playlist page, and needs roughly 2 KB per video. That is where the low price comes from.
• Only delivered videos are charged. A playlist that is private, deleted or empty comes back as a clear error record at no cost.
• A hard cost ceiling you control. maxVideosPerPlaylist is the cap: one delivered video is one charged event.
• Order is preserved. Every row carries its position, so the playlist sequence survives the export. That matters for courses, series and album playlists.
• Every input format works. A playlist id, a /playlist?list=... URL, or a watch URL that happens to carry a list= parameter.

Who this is for

Anyone who needs a playlist as a table: course and series catalogues, music and podcast back catalogues, curated collections used as input for further processing. It pairs with the video details and transcript scrapers from the same publisher: list the playlist, then pull details or transcripts for those ids.

Who this is not for

If you want to watch a playlist, YouTube does that better. This actor is for getting the list out as data, and it earns its place from the first playlist that is too long to copy by hand.

It returns public playlist and video metadata only. No comments, no commenter names, no personal data.

Input fields

Field	Type	Required or default	What it does
playlists	list of text	required	Playlist ids or any YouTube URL containing one, for example PLBsP89CPrMeNm71T5gYC6jebm9vPbLBiP or https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL...
maxVideosPerPlaylist	number	100	Stop after this many videos per playlist. This is your cost ceiling: one delivered video is one charged event.
language	text	en	Interface language for the texts YouTube returns, e.g. en, nl, de.
country	text	US	ISO country code used for the request, e.g. US, NL, DE.

Input example

{
    "playlists": [
        "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBsP89CPrMeNm71T5gYC6jebm9vPbLBiP",
        "PLBsP89CPrMeNm71T5gYC6jebm9vPbLBiP"
    ],
    "maxVideosPerPlaylist": 100,
    "language": "en",
    "country": "US"
}

Output example

Field	Type	What it holds	Example
playlistId	text	The playlist id, the key in its link.	PLBsP89CPrMeNm71T5gYC6jebm9vPbLBiP
playlistUrl	text	The playlist page on YouTube.	https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBsP89CPrMeNm71T5g...
playlistTitle	text	The playlist title as the channel set it.	Reviews!
playlistOwner	text	The channel that owns the playlist.
playlistVideoCount	number	How many videos the playlist holds in total.	327
position	number	The place of the video in the playlist, counting from 1.	1
videoId	text	The eleven-character YouTube id of the video, the key to join other data on.	rayrrXot17M
url	text	The watch page of the video.	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rayrrXot17M
title	text	The title as the uploader set it.	Nothing Headphone 1 Pro: They Copied the Wrong Thing!
duration	text	The length as YouTube prints it on the thumbnail, for example 12:04.	14:20
durationSeconds	number	The length of the video in seconds.	860
channelName	text	The channel that published the video.	Marques Brownlee
channelId	text	The channel id (UC...), stable where the channel name can change.	UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ
thumbnailUrl	text	The largest thumbnail YouTube offers for the video.	https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rayrrXot17M/sddefault.jpg

{
    "playlistId": "PLBsP89CPrMeNm71T5gYC6jebm9vPbLBiP",
    "playlistUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBsP89CPrMeNm71T5gYC6jebm9vPbLBiP",
    "playlistTitle": "Reviews!",
    "playlistOwner": "Marques Brownlee",
    "playlistVideoCount": 325,
    "position": 1,
    "videoId": "Od6M0AXpcxQ",
    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od6M0AXpcxQ",
    "title": "Google Pixel 11/Pro Review: Poker Face",
    "duration": "12:28",
    "durationSeconds": 748,
    "channelName": "Marques Brownlee",
    "channelId": "UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Od6M0AXpcxQ/maxresdefault.jpg",
    "status": "ok"
}

A playlist that cannot be delivered produces an error record instead, and is not charged:

{
    "input": "PLdoesnotexist000000000000",
    "status": "error",
    "errorCode": "PLAYLIST_EMPTY",
    "error": "Playlist PLdoesnotexist000000000000 has no public videos, or does not exist"
}

Error codes: INVALID_PLAYLIST, PLAYLIST_EMPTY, BLOCKED. INPUT_TRUNCATED appears once when your input is longer than this actor accepts.

Related actors from steadydata

• youtube-playlist-search: find playlists by keyword, if you do not have the URL yet
• youtube-playlist-transcripts: the same playlist with the transcript of every video
• youtube-video-details: full metadata per video in the playlist

Pricing

Pay per event: one video-listed event per delivered video. No charge for playlists that fail, no charge for empty playlists, no separate platform-usage surcharge.

Free Apify plan: this actor delivers up to 25 rows per run for accounts on the Apify free plan, and then stops with a message. That limit is set by us, not by Apify. It exists so the actor keeps paying for itself for the people who do pay. Any paid Apify plan runs it at full size, billed per delivered row, with failed rows never charged.

Reviews: if this actor saves you time, a short review on this page is the one thing that helps most. Ratings are what other buyers look at first, and we have no other way to ask.

FAQ

Why is there no view count? Because YouTube does not put one in a playlist listing, and inventing a number would be worse than leaving it out. If you need view counts, feed the video ids from this actor into the YouTube Video Details Scraper from the same publisher.

Does it keep the playlist order? Yes. Every row has a position field, counted from 1 in playlist order.

Can it handle very long playlists? Yes, it pages through them. Set maxVideosPerPlaylist to your limit; the ceiling is 5000 videos per playlist.

Does it work on auto-generated playlists? Channel uploads (UU...) and liked-video style ids are accepted. Mix playlists (RD...) are generated per viewer, so results there are not stable.

Is personal data collected? No. Public playlist and video metadata only.

What happens when YouTube changes something? Internal routes shift from time to time. The actor is monitored daily and fixed fast, and while it is broken you are not charged, because only delivered videos cost anything.