Snippet: Get all YouTube VideoIds from a playlist URL

Get all YouTube VideoIds from a playlist URL

Contenda — contenda

APIs like Contenda often times only accept a YouTube VideoId. This snippet returns an array of just the VideoIds so you can wrap a for loop around and call whichever API you'd like!

const {google} = require('googleapis');

const apiKey = process.env.apiKey;
const playlistUrl = 'https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAYLIST_ID';

// Extract the playlist ID from the URL
const playlistId = playlistUrl.split('list=')[1];

// Function to get video IDs from a playlist
async function getPlaylistVideoIds(playlistId) {
  const youtube = google.youtube({
    version: 'v3',
    auth: apiKey
  })
  
  const response = await youtube.playlistItems.list({
    key: apiKey,
    part: 'snippet',
    maxResults: 50,
    playlistId,
  });

  const videoIds = response.data.items.map(
    (item) => item.snippet.resourceId.videoId
  );

  console.log(videoIds);
}

await getPlaylistVideoIds(playlistId);