YouTube Playlist Scraper

YouTube

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Scrapes every video in public YouTube playlists and returns structured per-video and playlist metadata for large-scale playlist extraction and analysis. The connector crawls playlist listings and individual video pages (without using the YouTube API, login, or cookies) to collect position in playlist, video identifier and URL, title and availability, duration in seconds, exact upload timestamp plus relative published text, view counts, like and comment counts, full description and tags, category and language information, captions and live flags, channel identifiers and channel titles, and thumbnail URL. Every row also includes playlist-level metadata such as playlist identifier and URL, playlist title and owner details, total video count, playlist view count, and last-updated timestamp.

Verified Sep 28, 3:56 AM

$0.002

per playlist video

Up to 100 per call. Only pay for results returned; failed calls are refunded.

What people use it for

Course and curriculum export — convert a tutorial series into a spreadsheet with durations and links
Content audits — compare performance across videos in a series using views and engagement metrics
Competitor research — map playlist structure and traffic distribution across channel playlists
Podcast and show archives — build episode indexes with dates and durations
Watch-time planning — sum durations to plan training or viewing sessions
results building — collect thousands of related videos with standardized metadata in one run

Trust & reliability

7d uptime trend

Window	Uptime	Success rate	p50	p95
24h	—	—	—	—
7d	—	—	—	—
30d	—	—	—	—

Calling contract

Call it through Sourcelane's gateway or MCP server. We run the connector, apply your agent's spend guardrails, and bill only the results returned.

Call it via Sourcelane

curl -X POST https://api.usesourcelane.com/v1/call \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sl_live_your_agent_key" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"listing":"youtube-playlist-scraper","params":{"playlistUrls":["https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsyeobzWxl7poL9JTVyndKe62ieoN-MZ3"]},"maxResults":10}'

Request params

Field	Type	Required	Description
`playlistUrls`	array	required	YouTube playlist URLs or IDs, one per line. Accepts playlist?list=..., watch?v=...&list=... and bare IDs such as PLxxxx. Up to 200 per run.
`maxItemsPerPlaylist`	integer	optional	Videos to return from each playlist, in playlist order. 0 = every video, up to 20,000 per playlist.
`includeVideoDetails`	boolean	optional	Adds exact upload date, like and comment counts, description, tags, category and caption availability for each video. Turn off for a faster, lighter run with title, duration, views and relative date only.
`includeUnavailable`	boolean	optional	Also output placeholder rows for videos that are private or deleted (isAvailable = false) so positions stay contiguous.
`country`	string	optional	Two-letter country code passed to YouTube, e.g. US, GB, AU. Affects regional availability.
`language`	string	optional	Language code for YouTube's interface, e.g. en, de, pt-BR. Affects relative date text such as '2 weeks ago'.

Each result contains

Field	Type	Description
`playlistId`	string	Playlist Id
`playlistUrl`	string	Playlist Url
`playlistTitle`	string	Playlist Title
`playlistOwner`	null	Playlist Owner
`playlistOwnerChannelId`	null	Playlist Owner Channel Id
`playlistOwnerUrl`	null	Playlist Owner Url
`playlistVideoCount`	integer	Playlist Video Count
`playlistViewCount`	integer	Playlist View Count
`playlistLastUpdated`	string	Playlist Last Updated
`position`	integer	Position
`videoId`	string	Video Id
`url`	string	Url
`title`	string	—
`isAvailable`	boolean	—
`description`	string	—
`publishedAt`	string	—
`publishedText`	string	—
`durationSeconds`	integer	—
`viewCount`	integer	—
`likeCount`	integer	—
`commentCount`	integer	—
`channelId`	string	—
`channelTitle`	string	—
`channelUrl`	string	—
`thumbnailUrl`	string	—
`tags`	array	—
`categoryId`	string	—
`language`	string	—
`hasCaptions`	boolean	—
`isLive`	boolean	—

Use YouTube Playlist Scraper from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

Pick your tool and connect in under a minute. Then just ask — for example: “Get the transcript of this video and turn it into a blog outline: <url>”

Connect Claude

Web, desktop and mobile. Paste one URL.

1Copy your personal connector URL
2In Claude open Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector
3Paste the URL and click Add — done

Manual setup (config files, REST, Python) +

Claude Code

Adds the Sourcelane MCP server with your key as a header.

terminal

claude mcp add --transport http sourcelane https://api.usesourcelane.com/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer sl_live_your_agent_key"

Claude Desktop (config file)

Alternative to the connector URL: add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude.

claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sourcelane": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://api.usesourcelane.com/mcp",
        "--header",
        "Authorization:${AUTH_HEADER}"
      ],
      "env": {
        "AUTH_HEADER": "Bearer sl_live_your_agent_key"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cursor & Windsurf

Add to ~/.cursor/mcp.json (or Windsurf's mcp_config.json).

mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sourcelane": {
      "url": "https://api.usesourcelane.com/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer sl_live_your_agent_key"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

Save as .vscode/mcp.json. VS Code prompts for your key once.

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "sourcelane": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.usesourcelane.com/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer ${input:sourcelane-key}"
      }
    }
  },
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "sourcelane-key",
      "description": "Sourcelane agent key",
      "password": true
    }
  ]
}

ChatGPT Custom GPT (Actions)

Create a GPT → Actions → Import from URL, then Authentication: API Key, Bearer.

OpenAPI schema URL

https://usesourcelane.com/openapi.json

REST

One POST. Pass maxResults to cap cost.

curl

curl -X POST https://api.usesourcelane.com/v1/call \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sl_live_your_agent_key" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"listing":"youtube-playlist-scraper","params":{"playlistUrls":["https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsyeobzWxl7poL9JTVyndKe62ieoN-MZ3"]},"maxResults":10}'

Python, LangChain, CrewAI, OpenAI Agents SDK…

Wrap the REST call as a tool, or point an MCP client at the endpoint.

python

import requests

res = requests.post(
    "https://api.usesourcelane.com/v1/call",
    headers={"Authorization": "Bearer sl_live_your_agent_key"},
    json={
        "listing": "youtube-playlist-scraper",
        "params": {"playlistUrls":["https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsyeobzWxl7poL9JTVyndKe62ieoN-MZ3"]},
        "maxResults": 10,
    },
    timeout=300,
)
body = res.json()
print(body["receipt"]["chargedMicros"], "micro-USD for", body["receipt"]["results"], "results")
print(body["data"])

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