PlaylistItems: list

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 string
Identifies the API resource's type. The value will be youtube#playlistItemListResponse.
etag etag
The Etag of this resource.
nextPageToken string
The token that can be used as the value of the pageToken parameter to retrieve the next page in the result set.
prevPageToken string
The token that can be used as the value of the pageToken parameter to retrieve the previous page in the result set.
pageInfo object
The pageInfo object encapsulates paging information for the result set.
pageInfo.totalResults integer
The total number of results in the result set.
pageInfo.resultsPerPage integer
The number of results included in the API response.
items[] list
A 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's playlistItems.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's playlistItems.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's playlistItems.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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