Get a playlist

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Read a public playlist through the public browse API and follow its continuations (up to ten pages, about 1,100 videos): title, owner, total video count and every video's ID, title, thumbnail, URL, duration and channel. Longer playlists are returned truncated with playlist_truncated.

GET/v1/youtube/playlistx-api-key

Headers

Get your API key

x-api-keystringrequiredheader

Your ScrapeAtlas customer key. Create one on /account/ and set SCRAPEATLAS_API_KEY.

Query parameters

playlist_idstringrequiredquery

Playlist ID (the list parameter of a playlist or watch URL) or a playlist URL.

max 2048 chars

ExamplePLsynthetic000000000000000001

Response fields

requestIdstring

Operation identifier for correlation.

Upstream HTTP attempts, decoded bytes and duration.

accounting.upstreamRequestsinteger

Always included.

≥ 0

accounting.responseBytesinteger

Always included.

≥ 0

accounting.durationMsnumber

Always included.

≥ 0

successboolean

True when usable data was returned; inspect status and coverage.

statusenum

success, partial (coverage.warnings names the omission), failed or challenged.

one of: success, partial

titlestring

Playlist title.

id, name, url and handle of the owning channel (null fields for auto-generated owners).

owner.idstringnullable

Always included.

owner.namestringnullable

Always included.

owner.urlstringnullable

Always included.

owner.handlestringnullable

Always included.

totalVideosintegernullable

Video count YouTube displays; null when not shown.

Videos in playlist order: id, title, thumbnail, url, lengthText, lengthSeconds and channel {title, url}.

up to 1100 items

videos.idstring

Always included.

videos.titlestring

Always included.

videos.thumbnailstringnullable

Always included.

videos.urlstring

Always included.

absolute HTTPS URL

videos.lengthTextstringnullable

Always included.

videos.lengthSecondsintegernullable

Always included.

videos.channel.titlestringnullable

Always included.

videos.channel.urlstringnullable

Always included.

sourceUrlstring

Public YouTube URL the operation represents (page or API route).

absolute HTTPS URL

fetchedAtstring

UTC retrieval timestamp.

source is public_api. Warning playlist_truncated when more pages remained after the tenth continuation or 1,100 videos.

coverage.sourceenum

Always included.

one of: public_page, public_api

coverage.completeboolean

Always included.

coverage.warningsenum[]

Always included.

up to 8 items

HTTP 200 returns the success variant. Check status: partial means usable data with warnings, and failed or challenged requests carry a failure object described in Errors & responses.

Error codes

HTTP	failure.code	Meaning
400	`invalid_request`	Missing, malformed, duplicate or conflicting parameters, unsupported parameters or an unsafe URL.
400	`invalid_continuation`	YouTube rejected the supplied continuation token.
401	`unauthorized`	Missing or invalid worker API key.
403	`restricted_page`	The channel, video, playlist or post is terminated, private, members-only or otherwise unavailable.
403	`age_restricted`	The video is age restricted and cannot be read logged out.
404	`not_found`	YouTube reports no channel, video, playlist or post for the identifier.
429	`upstream_rate_limited`	YouTube rate limited the request; no automatic retry.
502	`upstream_challenged`	YouTube rejected or challenged the request.
502	`unsupported_page`	The response lacks the embedded data, the data is malformed, or the resolved identity does not match the request.
502	`response_too_large` `payload_too_complex`	The response exceeded byte, depth or node limits.
502	`unsafe_redirect` `request_limit` `upstream_error`	The bounded request could not complete.
503	`busy`	All worker slots are in use.
504	`timeout`	The total retrieval deadline expired.

Code example

curl "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/youtube/playlist?playlist_id=PLsynthetic000000000000000001" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/youtube/playlist?playlist_id=PLsynthetic000000000000000001",
  {
    headers: {
      "x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"
    }
  }
);

const data = await response.json();
console.log(data.status, data);

type Result = {
  status: "success" | "partial" | "failed" | "challenged";
  requestId: string;
  [field: string]: unknown;
};

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/youtube/playlist?playlist_id=PLsynthetic000000000000000001",
  {
    headers: {
      "x-api-key": process.env.SCRAPEATLAS_API_KEY!
    }
  }
);

const data = (await response.json()) as Result;
if (data.status === "failed" || data.status === "challenged") {
  throw new Error(`YouTube request failed: ${data.requestId}`);
}
console.log(data);

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/youtube/playlist",
    headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
    params={
        "playlist_id": "PLsynthetic000000000000000001"
    },
    timeout=60,
)
data = response.json()
print(data["status"], data)

package main

import (
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/youtube/playlist?playlist_id=PLsynthetic000000000000000001", nil)
	req.Header.Set("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
	resp, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	defer resp.Body.Close()

	var data map[string]interface{}
	json.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(&data)
	fmt.Println(data["status"], data)
}

import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        var client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();
        var request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
            .uri(URI.create("https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/youtube/playlist?playlist_id=PLsynthetic000000000000000001"))
            .GET()
            .header("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
            .build();
        var response = client.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
        System.out.println(response.body());
    }
}

Use your sa_live_… customer key at https://api.scrapeatlas.com.

Responses

Successful result. Synthetic example validated against the runtime contract.

{
  "success": true,
  "status": "success",
  "requestId": "00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000025",
  "title": "Synthetic playlist",
  "owner": {
    "id": "UCsynthetic0000000000001",
    "name": "Example Channel",
    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/@ExampleChannel",
    "handle": "ExampleChannel"
  },
  "totalVideos": 2,
  "videos": [
    {
      "id": "Vid0000001a",
      "title": "Synthetic video one",
      "thumbnail": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Vid0000001a/hq720.jpg?sqp=synthetic",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vid0000001a",
      "lengthText": "4:15",
      "lengthSeconds": 255,
      "channel": {
        "title": "Another Channel",
        "url": "https://www.youtube.com/@AnotherChannel"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "Vid0000002b",
      "title": "Synthetic video two",
      "thumbnail": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Vid0000002b/hq720.jpg?sqp=synthetic",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vid0000002b",
      "lengthText": "3:13",
      "lengthSeconds": 193,
      "channel": {
        "title": "Another Channel",
        "url": "https://www.youtube.com/@AnotherChannel"
      }
    }
  ],
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsynthetic000000000000000001",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-09-12T12:00:00.000Z",
  "coverage": {
    "source": "public_api",
    "complete": true,
    "warnings": []
  },
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 1,
    "responseBytes": 70000,
    "durationMs": 700
  }
}

Missing, malformed, duplicate or conflicting parameters, unsupported parameters or an unsafe URL. YouTube rejected the supplied continuation token.

{
  "requestId": "9d2f1c0a-6b1e-4c7d-9a8e-2f3b4c5d6e7f",
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 0,
    "responseBytes": 0,
    "durationMs": 0
  },
  "success": false,
  "status": "failed",
  "failure": {
    "code": "invalid_request",
    "message": "Invalid request: missing, duplicate, unsupported or malformed parameters."
  }
}