## youtube/channel/playlists

`GET /v1/youtube/channel/playlists`

Public playlists owned by a channel: title, description, item count and privacy.

*YouTube channel playlists*

| Parameter | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `channelId` | no | Channel id. One of channelId, handle or url is required — e.g. `UC_x5XG1OV2P6uZZ5FSM9Ttw` |
| `handle` | no | Channel @handle (resolved to a channel id first) — e.g. `@googledevelopers` |
| `url` | no | Any channel URL — e.g. `https://www.youtube.com/@googledevelopers` |
| `max_results` | no | Requested page size, 1–50. The paid primary defaults to 50; the source may return fewer. Keep an explicit size unchanged while paginating. — e.g. `50` |
| `cursor` | no | Opaque page token from a previous response — e.g. `CAUQAA` |
| `dry_run` | no | Read a zero-credit estimate without fetching sources, running AI, or reserving credits. Cache status is a snapshot, not a guarantee at execution. Accepted values: 1, 0, true, false. Case, spaces, hyphens and underscores are interchangeable. — e.g. `1` |
| `judgments` | no | Add bounded AI labels to eligible returned records (default on). off preserves the original data shape. Unclassified records remain present; labels depend on evidence, time, capacity and the existing request budget. No label surcharge. Accepted values: on, off. Case, spaces, hyphens and underscores are interchangeable. — e.g. `on` |
| `label` | no | Set none to disable labels; default enables the endpoint’s label set. Equivalent to judgments=off. Accepted values: default, none. Case, spaces, hyphens and underscores are interchangeable. — e.g. `none` |
| `label_evidence` | no | Include exact supporting sentences and zero-based sentence indexes when a label has validated evidence. No extra charge or change to decisions. Accepted values: 1, 0, true, false. Case, spaces, hyphens and underscores are interchangeable. — e.g. `1` |
| `exclude` | no | Optionally remove confidently labelled engagement bait. Uncertain and unclassified records stay; removed IDs and an owner-bound recall reference are returned. Accepted values: engagement_bait. Case, spaces, hyphens and underscores are interchangeable. — e.g. `engagement_bait` |
| `fit` | no | Use goal to replace confidently irrelevant records with recall stubs. Keeps first, last, relevant and uncertain records; preserves order. Full evidence is stored for 24 hours when available. Accepted values: goal. Case, spaces, hyphens and underscores are interchangeable. — e.g. `goal` |
| `goal` | no | Required with fit=goal: describe the task in at most 600 characters. Supplied text is task context, never permission to act on posts. — e.g. `Find concrete product complaints` |
| `tokens` | no | Optional soft response target for fit=goal, 256–32000. Safety and evidence retention take priority, so the returned result may exceed it. — e.g. `4000` |

### Useful optional inputs

- `fit`: Use fit=goal with a task description to replace confidently irrelevant records with recall stubs and reduce agent context. No fit surcharge; full evidence is retained for 24 hours when stored, and the response size target is soft.
- `cursor`: Continue the same source traversal with the complete returned cursor. Saved-result retrieval and a new source page can have different prices; quote the next call.
- `dry_run`: Read a free estimate before fetching sources or scheduling paid work. Zero credits; cache status and availability are snapshots rather than guarantees.

**Cost:** 1 credit at list price per successful uncached response; variable-cost operations may quote or settle a different charge. Confirmed uncharged or refunded failures report zero. Pending reconciliation can report credits_used:null; retain request_id and the original idempotency key.

```bash
curl "https://www.monocrawl.com/v1/youtube/channel/playlists?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2F%40googledevelopers" \
  -H "x-api-key: mn_your_key_here"
```

### Response data

Illustrative abbreviated data; documented core fields are optional and may be null. Additional source fields are allowed.

```json
{
  "_warnings": [],
  "channel_id": "example",
  "count": 0,
  "cursor": null,
  "dropped": 0,
  "has_more": false,
  "items": [
    {
      "channel": {
        "id": "example",
        "name": "example",
        "url": "https://example.com/example"
      },
      "description": "example",
      "id": "example",
      "privacy_status": "example",
      "published_at": "2026-09-01T12:00:00Z",
      "thumbnails": {
        "default": {},
        "fhd": {},
        "high": {},
        "maxres": {},
        "medium": {},
        "standard": {}
      },
      "title": "example",
      "url": "https://example.com/example",
      "video_count": 0
    }
  ],
  "total": 0
}
```

[Field reference](https://www.monocrawl.com/docs/endpoints/youtube/channel/playlists#response) · [JSON Schema for response.data](https://www.monocrawl.com/schemas/youtube/channel/playlists.json)