List videos in a YouTube playlist · YouTube API
Return the videos in a YouTube playlist, by its `PL…` playlist ID, as a cursor-paginated list in playlist order. Useful for ingesting a curated series or course in sequence.
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curl https://api.unifapi.com/youtube/playlists/{playlist_id}/videos \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $UNIFAPI_KEY"Parameters
- playlist_idpathrequired
- cursorquery
This operation is part of the YouTube API in the social platforms category. It uses the same Bearer token, request tracing, error model, and billing envelope as every UnifAPI endpoint, so agents can switch between platforms without custom per-vendor glue code.
Use it when a workflow needs YouTube public data alongside other social networks, but should still keep one API key, one account balance, and one predictable JSON contract.
Common agent workflows
- Fetch canonical public YouTube content for summarization, ranking, monitoring, or enrichment.
- Attach engagement, author, media, and source metadata to an agent workflow.
- Give an AI agent a stable YouTube data source without building a per-platform integration.
- Normalize YouTube responses into the same UnifAPI envelope used across the catalog.
Unified envelope, platform-native fields
- List-style responses return `data` as an array of top-level records plus optional `pagination` for continuation tokens or cursors.
- The `billing.records_charged` field reports the charged billable-record quantity for the successful response.
- If the workspace balance cannot cover every result, the response can be truncated and `billing.truncated_due_to_balance` tells the caller why.
Response status codes
Billing
This operation charges 1 credit per billable record, with a 1 credit ($0.001) operation minimum. Public responses include billing metadata with credits charged, records charged, and remaining workspace balance. Incorrect Credit deductions caused by platform failures can be restored as billing corrections.
Errors and retries
Authentication, validation, rate-limit, not-found, and provider errors use the unified UnifAPI error format. Agents should log `request_id`, retry only retryable failures, and treat invalid API keys, disabled keys, and expired keys as the same public `unauthorized` error type.
Fields on each record in data
A successful List videos in a YouTube playlist call returns data as an array; each record carries these fields.
- idstring
- YouTube video id (e.g. `oaSNBz4qMQY`).
- titlestring
- authorstring
- channel_idstring
- descriptionstring
- duration_secondsnumber
- view_countnumber
- published_timestring
- Relative time string from source (e.g. `3 weeks ago`).
- is_liveboolean
- categorystring
Agents & Skills built on YouTube
You rarely call List videos in a YouTube playlist by hand. These prebuilt agents and skills already read YouTube data inside Claude or Codex — start from one of them, or call this endpoint yourself.
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Combine endpoints from the same platform, then join the results with other UnifAPI categories without changing authentication or response parsing.
Get a YouTube playlist by id
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List a YouTube channel's community posts
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List videos uploaded by a YouTube channel
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List videos for a YouTube hashtag
Return the videos YouTube surfaces for a hashtag, by tag (with or without a leading `#`), as a cursor-paginated list. Useful for tracking a campaign or trend across creators.
Get a YouTube video by id
Return a single YouTube video's details by its video ID — title, description, channel, duration, category, publish time, and view and like counts. Useful for hydrating a known video or checking its current engagement.