Recover Deleted Video Positions in YouTube Playlists
Identify missing or deleted entries in any public YouTube playlist to repair or snapshot curated collections. This task returns the real position, video ID, and thumbnail URL for unavailable items, alongside playlist metadata and uploader details. Change the includeUnavailableVideos flag to see placeholders for private or removed content.
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The YouTube Playlist Contents & Channel Playlist Finder Actor will start running based on the input automatically. You can also change all the input fields, like playlist urls, include unavailable videos, and more, to match your specific use case.
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The final output is delivered in JSON, CSV, or Excel format, ready to be plugged into your workflow. You can also run the "Recover Deleted Video Positions in YouTube Playlists" task via API.

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The YouTube playlist recovery task returns unavailable entries with their real positions and video IDs. YouTube does not reveal hidden videos’ titles, so their names cannot be recovered from these records.
The YouTube playlist recovery task is set to return at most 100 rows per playlist in this run; unavailable placeholders count toward that limit. The actor supports up to 10,000 rows per playlist, and 0 means every video.
The YouTube playlist recovery task can return placeholders for hidden entries with their real positions and video IDs, but YouTube does not reveal their titles or uploader details. Those fields are omitted.
Results from the YouTube playlist recovery task land in a dataset you can download as CSV, Excel, JSON, XML, RSS, or an HTML table, or read through the Apify API.
For the YouTube playlist recovery task, up to 100 results cost at most $0.099 on the Free plan, plus the Actor Start event charge and Apify platform compute usage.