youtube-playlist-extractor

Extract the video URLs from a YouTube playlist.

Usage

python3 extractYT.py <playlist-url-or-id> [options]

Accepts either a full playlist URL (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=...) or a bare playlist ID (PL772556F1EFC4D01C).

Options

• -o, --output FILE — write URLs to a file instead of stdout.
• --ids-only — print bare video IDs instead of full watch?v=... URLs.
• --yt-dlp — use yt-dlp as the backend. More reliable and handles multi-page playlists. Requires pip install yt-dlp.

Examples

python3 extractYT.py PL772556F1EFC4D01C
python3 extractYT.py https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL772556F1EFC4D01C -o urls.txt
python3 extractYT.py PL772556F1EFC4D01C --yt-dlp --ids-only

Results are deduplicated in playlist order. The default scraper reads the playlist page HTML; if YouTube changes its markup or the playlist spans multiple pages, use --yt-dlp.