Returns a collection of playlist items that match the API request parameters. You can retrieve all of the playlist items in a specified playlist or retrieve one or more playlist items by their unique IDs.
Quota impact: A call to this method has a quota cost of 1 unit.
Common use cases
Request
HTTP request
GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/playlistItems
Parameters
The following table lists the parameters that this query supports. All of the parameters listed are query parameters.
Request body
Do not provide a request body when calling this method.
Response
If successful, this method returns a response body with the following structure:
{
"kind": "youtube#playlistItemListResponse",
"etag": etag,
"nextPageToken": string,
"prevPageToken": string,
"pageInfo": {
"totalResults": integer,
"resultsPerPage": integer
},
"items": [
playlistItem Resource
]
}Properties
The following table defines the properties that appear in this resource:
| Properties | |
|---|---|
kind |
stringIdentifies the API resource's type. The value will be youtube#playlistItemListResponse. |
etag |
etagThe Etag of this resource. |
nextPageToken |
stringThe token that can be used as the value of the pageToken parameter to retrieve the next page in the result set. |
prevPageToken |
stringThe token that can be used as the value of the pageToken parameter to retrieve the previous page in the result set. |
pageInfo |
objectThe pageInfo object encapsulates paging information for the result set. |
pageInfo.totalResults |
integerThe total number of results in the result set. |
pageInfo.resultsPerPage |
integerThe number of results included in the API response. |
items[] |
listA list of playlist items that match the request criteria. |
Examples
Note: The following code samples may not represent all supported programming languages. See the client libraries documentation for a list of supported languages.
Go
This code sample calls the API'splaylistItems.list method to retrieve a list of
videos uploaded to the channel associated with the request. The code also calls the channels.list
method with the mine parameter set to true to retrieve the playlist ID that identifies
the channel's uploaded videos.
This example uses the Go client library.
package main import ( "fmt" "log" "google.golang.org/api/youtube/v3" ) // Retrieve playlistItems in the specified playlist func playlistItemsList(service *youtube.Service, part string, playlistId string, pageToken string) *youtube.PlaylistItemListResponse { call := service.PlaylistItems.List(part) call = call.PlaylistId(playlistId) if pageToken != "" { call = call.PageToken(pageToken) } response, err := call.Do() handleError(err, "") return response } // Retrieve resource for the authenticated user's channel func channelsListMine(service *youtube.Service, part string) *youtube.ChannelListResponse { call := service.Channels.List(part) call = call.Mine(true) response, err := call.Do() handleError(err, "") return response } func main() { client := getClient(youtube.YoutubeReadonlyScope) service, err := youtube.New(client) if err != nil { log.Fatalf("Error creating YouTube client: %v", err) } response := channelsListMine(service, "contentDetails") for _, channel := range response.Items { playlistId := channel.ContentDetails.RelatedPlaylists.Uploads // Print the playlist ID for the list of uploaded videos. fmt.Printf("Videos in list %s\r\n", playlistId) nextPageToken := "" for { // Retrieve next set of items in the playlist. playlistResponse := playlistItemsList(service, "snippet", playlistId, nextPageToken) for _, playlistItem := range playlistResponse.Items { title := playlistItem.Snippet.Title videoId := playlistItem.Snippet.ResourceId.VideoId fmt.Printf("%v, (%v)\r\n", title, videoId) } // Set the token to retrieve the next page of results // or exit the loop if all results have been retrieved. nextPageToken = playlistResponse.NextPageToken if nextPageToken == "" { break } fmt.Println() } } }
.NET
The following code sample calls the API'splaylistItems.list method to retrieve a list of videos
uploaded to the channel associated with the request. The code also calls the channels.list method with the
mine parameter set to true to retrieve the playlist ID that identifies the channel's uploaded
videos.
This example uses the .NET client library.
using System; using System.IO; using System.Reflection; using System.Threading; using System.Threading.Tasks; using Google.Apis.Auth.OAuth2; using Google.Apis.Services; using Google.Apis.Upload; using Google.Apis.Util.Store; using Google.Apis.YouTube.v3; using Google.Apis.YouTube.v3.Data; namespace Google.Apis.YouTube.Samples { /// <summary> /// YouTube Data API v3 sample: retrieve my uploads. /// Relies on the Google APIs Client Library for .NET, v1.7.0 or higher. /// See https://developers.google.com/api-client-library/dotnet/get_started /// </summary> internal class MyUploads { [STAThread] static void Main(string[] args) { Console.WriteLine("YouTube Data API: My Uploads"); Console.WriteLine("============================"); try { new MyUploads().Run().Wait(); } catch (AggregateException ex) { foreach (var e in ex.InnerExceptions) { Console.WriteLine("Error: " + e.Message); } } Console.WriteLine("Press any key to continue..."); Console.ReadKey(); } private async Task Run() { UserCredential credential; using (var stream = new FileStream("client_secrets.json", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read)) { credential = await GoogleWebAuthorizationBroker.AuthorizeAsync( GoogleClientSecrets.Load(stream).Secrets, // This OAuth 2.0 access scope allows for read-only access to the authenticated // user's account, but not other types of account access. new[] { YouTubeService.Scope.YoutubeReadonly }, "user", CancellationToken.None, new FileDataStore(this.GetType().ToString()) ); } var youtubeService = new YouTubeService(new BaseClientService.Initializer() { HttpClientInitializer = credential, ApplicationName = this.GetType().ToString() }); var channelsListRequest = youtubeService.Channels.List("contentDetails"); channelsListRequest.Mine = true; // Retrieve the contentDetails part of the channel resource for the authenticated user's channel. var channelsListResponse = await channelsListRequest.ExecuteAsync(); foreach (var channel in channelsListResponse.Items) { // From the API response, extract the playlist ID that identifies the list // of videos uploaded to the authenticated user's channel. var uploadsListId = channel.ContentDetails.RelatedPlaylists.Uploads; Console.WriteLine("Videos in list {0}", uploadsListId); var nextPageToken = ""; while (nextPageToken != null) { var playlistItemsListRequest = youtubeService.PlaylistItems.List("snippet"); playlistItemsListRequest.PlaylistId = uploadsListId; playlistItemsListRequest.MaxResults = 50; playlistItemsListRequest.PageToken = nextPageToken; // Retrieve the list of videos uploaded to the authenticated user's channel. var playlistItemsListResponse = await playlistItemsListRequest.ExecuteAsync(); foreach (var playlistItem in playlistItemsListResponse.Items) { // Print information about each video. Console.WriteLine("{0} ({1})", playlistItem.Snippet.Title, playlistItem.Snippet.ResourceId.VideoId); } nextPageToken = playlistItemsListResponse.NextPageToken; } } } } }
Ruby
This sample calls the API'splaylistItems.list method to retrieve a list of videos uploaded
to the channel associated with the request. The code also calls the channels.list method with the
mine parameter set to true to retrieve the playlist ID that identifies the channel's
uploaded videos.
This example uses the Ruby client library.
#!/usr/bin/ruby require 'rubygems' gem 'google-api-client', '>0.7' require 'google/api_client' require 'google/api_client/client_secrets' require 'google/api_client/auth/file_storage' require 'google/api_client/auth/installed_app' # This OAuth 2.0 access scope allows for read-only access to the authenticated # user's account, but not other types of account access. YOUTUBE_READONLY_SCOPE = 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.readonly' YOUTUBE_API_SERVICE_NAME = 'youtube' YOUTUBE_API_VERSION = 'v3' def get_authenticated_service client = Google::APIClient.new( :application_name => $PROGRAM_NAME, :application_version => '1.0.0' ) youtube = client.discovered_api(YOUTUBE_API_SERVICE_NAME, YOUTUBE_API_VERSION) file_storage = Google::APIClient::FileStorage.new("#{$PROGRAM_NAME}-oauth2.json") if file_storage.authorization.nil? client_secrets = Google::APIClient::ClientSecrets.load flow = Google::APIClient::InstalledAppFlow.new( :client_id => client_secrets.client_id, :client_secret => client_secrets.client_secret, :scope => [YOUTUBE_READONLY_SCOPE] ) client.authorization = flow.authorize(file_storage) else client.authorization = file_storage.authorization end return client, youtube end def main client, youtube = get_authenticated_service begin # Retrieve the "contentDetails" part of the channel resource for the # authenticated user's channel. channels_response = client.execute!( :api_method => youtube.channels.list, :parameters => { :mine => true, :part => 'contentDetails' } ) channels_response.data.items.each do |channel| # From the API response, extract the playlist ID that identifies the list # of videos uploaded to the authenticated user's channel. uploads_list_id = channel['contentDetails']['relatedPlaylists']['uploads'] # Retrieve the list of videos uploaded to the authenticated user's channel. next_page_token = '' until next_page_token.nil? playlistitems_response = client.execute!( :api_method => youtube.playlist_items.list, :parameters => { :playlistId => uploads_list_id, :part => 'snippet', :maxResults => 50, :pageToken => next_page_token } ) puts "Videos in list #{uploads_list_id}" # Print information about each video. playlistitems_response.data.items.each do |playlist_item| title = playlist_item['snippet']['title'] video_id = playlist_item['snippet']['resourceId']['videoId'] puts "#{title} (#{video_id})" end next_page_token = playlistitems_response.next_page_token end puts end rescue Google::APIClient::TransmissionError => e puts e.result.body end end main
Errors
The following table identifies error messages that the API could return in response to a call to this method. Please see the error message documentation for more detail.
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