Is there any way to get playlists count using youtube api

Question

Hi friends am trying to get the exact count of number of playlists in channel using channelid using youtube api.

Answer 1

Yes it is possible by using the Youtube V3 API and the playlist.list together with a channel id.

Get all playlist ids from channel id - youtube api v3 shows how to get the playlist id's from the API.

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part: snippet
channelId: UCBkNpeyvBO2TdPGVC_PsPUA

A response from playlist.list

{
 "kind": "youtube#playlistListResponse",
 "etag": "\"uQc-MPTsstrHkQcRXL3IWLmeNsM/GayOzLnLt1ndQVz5WvCaYWPuXUo\"",
 "nextPageToken": "CAUQAA",
 "pageInfo": {
  "totalResults": 14, <--- Total number of playlists.
  "resultsPerPage": 5
 },
 "items": [
  {
   "kind": "youtube#playlist",
   "etag": "\"uQc-MPTsstrHkQcRXL3IWLmeNsM/llWSSTxPt1F74kWJeadntx0oOlU\"",
   "id": "PL2qcutlDmS0BGjOf5rwjWNH6JnyFEShyb",
   "snippet": {
     // snippet information, title etc
   }
  },
  {
   "kind": "youtube#playlist",
   "etag": "\"uQc-MPTsstrHkQcRXL3IWLmeNsM/D7iFaGmnjkkw29IXm-6kWaCd0a8\"",
   "id": "PL2qcutlDmS0DUCGOdr5eYDwZC_1JAReI4", 
   "snippet": {
  },
  {
   "kind": "youtube#playlist",
   "etag": "\"uQc-MPTsstrHkQcRXL3IWLmeNsM/0MGgZUqxHh3qkYePoEP3C9ZPamU\"",
   "id": "PL2qcutlDmS0DMB6Xv2KmlKzdOtNqMOwpv", // Count 3
   "snippet": {
        // snippet information, title etc
    }
  },
  {
   "kind": "youtube#playlist",
   "etag": "\"uQc-MPTsstrHkQcRXL3IWLmeNsM/XMQu1lYA_nJGBD5l7JknPncuwv0\"",
   "id": "PL2qcutlDmS0CnyV8Jcbl2d7yFxd2iGg67",
   "snippet": {
        // snippet information, title etc
   }
  }
 ]
}

You can use the totalResults from pageInfo to get the number of playlists for that channel.