The YouTube playlist your agent needs.
YouTube Playlist returns a playlist's title, channel and video count, with its videos a page at a time.
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YouTube Playlist APIfor AI agents
One API call to read a YouTube playlist. Get its details and videos as JSON.
What people use it for.
Measure a course
List a lecture playlist and add up durationSeconds. You get the full length of the course before you start it.
Turn a series into notes
Page through a playlist and send each videoId to youtube.transcript. Store the text as study notes.
Watch a playlist for changes
Save the videoId list each week. A new id means the owner added a video to the playlist.
More YouTube endpoints.
- SuggestionsGet YouTube search suggestions for a keyword
- SearchSearch YouTube videos, channels, playlists and shorts
- TranscriptGet what a YouTube video says, from its captions
- VideoGet a video's stats, description, chapters and most replayed moments
- CommentsGet a video's comments, or the replies to one comment
- ChannelGet a channel's profile and one tab of videos, shorts, live, playlists, podcasts or posts
- Channel searchSearch one channel's videos, like the search box on its YouTube page
- Related videosGet the videos YouTube suggests next to a video, like its Up next list
- HashtagGet the videos on a YouTube hashtag page, like youtube.com/hashtag/sourdough
- PostGet a YouTube community post and its comments
- ChartsGet YouTube Charts: top songs, videos, artists, Shorts songs, podcasts or trending
- All YouTube endpointsOne API for YouTube data. Get videos, transcripts, comments and channels as JSON.
Ways to call it.
- Use the APISend a POST request with a Bearer key. Every endpoint returns success, data, creditsUsed and requestId.
- Use MCPAdd https://api.stophy.dev/mcp to Claude, Cursor or Codex. The agent finds an endpoint and calls it.
- Use the SDKInstall the TypeScript or Python client. Call an endpoint by its id, such as youtube.transcript.
- Use the CLICall an endpoint from the terminal. The CLI prints JSON, so you can pipe the result into a script.
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Questions and answers.
No. You call Stophy with a Stophy API key and a playlist link or a playlist id. You need no Google Cloud project.
The playlist and a results list of its videos. The playlist has playlistId, title, description, channelName, videos and views. Each video has videoId, videoUrl, title, durationSeconds, views and publishedAt.
Send the cursor from the last response, with the same playlist. Repeat until the response has no cursor.
Call youtube.channel with tab set to playlists. Each result has a playlistId and a playlistUrl.
No. Each video in the list has its stats. Pass a videoId to youtube.transcript to get the spoken words.
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Yes. Add the MCP server at https://api.stophy.dev/mcp to Claude, Cursor or Codex. The agent calls the endpoint by the id youtubePlaylist.
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