Order/sort videos in YouTube playlist by views/popularity

yt_video_sorter.py

#change KEY_PATH, API_KEY, LIST_ID
#API_KEY https://blog.hubspot.com/website/how-to-get-youtube-api-key
#KEY_PATH https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication/getting-started
#LIST_ID for ex. list_id in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjYptQjF1Tw&list=RDfjYptQjF1Tw&start_radio=1 is "RDfjYptQjF1Tw"

import os
from googleapiclient.discovery import build

credential_path = "KEY_PATH"
os.environ['GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS'] = credential_path

api_key = os.environ.get('API_KEY')

youtube = build('youtube', 'v3', developerKey=api_key)

playlist_id = 'LIST_ID'

videos = []

nextPageToken = None
while True:
    pl_request = youtube.playlistItems().list(
        part='contentDetails',
        playlistId=playlist_id,
        maxResults=50,
        pageToken=nextPageToken
    )

    pl_response = pl_request.execute()

    vid_ids = []
    for item in pl_response['items']:
        vid_ids.append(item['contentDetails']['videoId'])

    vid_request = youtube.videos().list(
        part="statistics",
        id=','.join(vid_ids)
    )

    vid_response = vid_request.execute()

    for item in vid_response['items']:
        vid_views = item['statistics']['viewCount']

        vid_id = item['id']
        yt_link = f'https://youtu.be/{vid_id}'

        videos.append(
            {
                'views': int(vid_views),
                'url': yt_link
            }
        )

    nextPageToken = pl_response.get('nextPageToken')

    if not nextPageToken:
        break

videos.sort(key=lambda vid: vid['views'], reverse=True)

for video in videos: #you can control how many videos to retrieve
    print(video['url'], video['views']) #check official doc to get more info