YouTube Channel Playlists API
YouTube channel playlists API — all playlists with titles, video counts, and thumbnails. Content organization analysis from $0.01/call.
Fetch all playlists created by a specific YouTube channel. Returns playlist metadata including title, video count, and supports pagination.
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{
"ok": true,
"data": {
"meta": {
"channelId": "..."
},
"data": [
{
"playlistId": "...",
"title": "...",
"videoCount": "25"
}
],
"continuation": "..."
}
}Features
Send a channel ID to /v1/youtube/channel-playlists to list every playlist that creator has assembled, paginating through their full set.
Each playlist entry carries playlistId, title, and videoCount (e.g. 25), so you can size and identify collections before expanding them.
Use the continuation token to page through channels that maintain many playlists.
Surfaces the channel's discoverable playlists, including unlisted ones exposed on the channel, for a complete view of how content is organized.
Use cases
Content Organization
Understand how a channel organizes its content into playlists.
Course Discovery
Find educational playlists from learning channels for course catalogs.
Playlist Monitoring
Track new playlists from channels you follow for content updates.
Quick start
Copy this snippet and start making calls.
const res = await fetch('https://api.yepapi.com/v1/youtube/channel-playlists', {
method: 'POST',
headers: {
'x-api-key': 'YOUR_API_KEY',
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
},
body: JSON.stringify({
"id": "UCAuUUnT6oDeKwE6v1NGQxug"
}),
});
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);The YouTube Channel Playlists API — how a creator organizes content
The YouTube Channel Playlists API lists the playlists a channel has created. Send a channel ID to /v1/youtube/channel-playlists and get a data array where each entry has playlistId, title, and videoCount (e.g. 25), plus a continuation token for channels with many collections. It reveals the structure a creator imposes on their content, not the videos themselves.
At $0.01 per call it's the discovery layer above the Playlist endpoint: list a channel's playlists here, then expand any playlistId into its full contents. Together they map a creator's entire organized catalog.
What is a YouTube Channel Playlists API?
A YouTube Channel Playlists API lists the playlists a channel has created, as structured JSON — the collections, not their contents. For a channel ID you get a data array where each entry has a playlistId, title, and videoCount, with a continuation token for channels that keep many playlists. It captures how a creator organizes their content: which series, themes, or courses they've grouped together. That's distinct from listing a channel's individual uploads (Channel Videos) or expanding one playlist's videos (the Playlist endpoint) — this is the index of collections, the organizational map.
Build your own content-organization explorer
Pull a channel's playlists to understand its structure at a glance — a creator's playlist titles and counts reveal how they think about their own catalog. For learning platforms, scan educational channels for playlists that look like courses, surfacing them by title and videoCount for a course catalog. Monitor a channel's playlists on a schedule to catch new series as they're created. The real power is composition: take each playlistId here and feed it to the Playlist endpoint to expand into ordered video lists, building a complete tree of a creator's organized content.
YouTube Channel Playlists API pricing — $0.01/call
Each page of a channel's playlists costs $0.01 and returns a batch with a continuation token. There's no daily quota. Indexing the collection structure of many channels is a cent per page each. The official Data API can list a channel's playlists against your unit budget; here it's a flat per-call rate on the same key as the Playlist endpoint you'll use next to expand each one.
Channel Playlists feeds the Playlist endpoint
This endpoint and the Playlist endpoint are two halves of one workflow. Channel Playlists tells you which collections a creator has and how big each is; the Playlist endpoint expands a given playlistId into its ordered videos. Chain them — list the playlists, then iterate each ID through Playlist — and you've reconstructed a creator's entire organized catalog as structured data. Both run on one YepAPI key alongside the broader channel, video, and search endpoints.
Try the YouTube Channel Playlists API free
Get $5 in free credit at signup, no card required — 500 pages. List a channel's playlists and inspect the titles and video counts before expanding them with the Playlist endpoint.
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Frequently asked questions
Fetch all playlists created by a specific YouTube channel. Returns playlist metadata including title, video count, and supports pagination.
Each API call costs $0.01. No monthly minimums or subscriptions — you only pay for what you use.
Sign up for a free API key, then send a POST request to /v1/youtube/channel-playlists. Check the code example above for a ready-to-use snippet in JavaScript, cURL, or Python.
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