Playlists

A playlist resource represents a YouTube playlist. A playlist is a collection of videos that can be viewed sequentially and shared with other users. By default, playlists are publicly visible to other users, but playlists can be public or private.

YouTube also uses playlists to identify special collections of videos for a channel, such as:

• uploaded videos
• positively rated (liked) videos

Methods

The API supports the following methods for playlists resources:

list

Returns a collection of playlists that match the API request parameters. For example, you can retrieve all playlists that the authenticated user owns, or you can retrieve one or more playlists by their unique IDs. Try it now.

insert

Creates a playlist. Try it now.

update

Modifies a playlist. For example, you could change a playlist's title, description, or privacy status. Try it now.

delete

Deletes a playlist. Try it now.

Resource representation

The following JSON structure shows the format of a playlists resource:

{
  "kind": "youtube#playlist",
  "etag": etag,
  "id": string,
  "snippet": {
    "publishedAt": datetime,
    "channelId": string,
    "title": string,
    "description": string,
    "thumbnails": {
      (key): {
        "url": string,
        "width": unsigned integer,
        "height": unsigned integer
      }
    },
    "channelTitle": string,
    "tags": [
      string
    ],
    "defaultLanguage": string,
    "localized": {
      "title": string,
      "description": string
    }
  },
  "status": {
    "privacyStatus": string
  },
  "contentDetails": {
    "itemCount": unsigned integer
  },
  "player": {
    "embedHtml": string
  },
  "localizations": {
    (key): {
      "title": string,
      "description": string
    }
  }
}

Properties

The following table defines the properties that appear in this resource: