Get all video links from a Youtube playlist

playlist.py

import requests
import json

"""
The Youtube API only provides a certain amount of results per page, so if there
are lots of videos in a playlist it will need multiple pages to get all the videos
"""

# EDIT THESE
api_key = "YOUTUBE V3 API KEY"
playlist_link = "YOUTUBE PLAYLIST LINK"
#

# Request youtube API without pageToken (first page/only 1 page)
req_no_token = "https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/playlistItems?part=snippet&maxResults=40&playlistId={}&fields=items(snippet(resourceId(playlistId%2CvideoId)))%2CnextPageToken&key={}"
# Request youtube API with pageToken (pages 2+)
req_with_token = "https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/playlistItems?part=snippet&maxResults=40&pageToken={}&playlistId={}&fields=items(snippet(resourceId(playlistId%2CvideoId)))%2CnextPageToken&key={}"

videos = []
ids = ""  # Will be set to returned json

def get_video_links(url):
    global ids

    info = requests.get(url)  # Request info
    ids = json.loads(info.text)  # Parse the json that is returned

    for snippet in ids["items"]:  # Get all video ID's from current page of results
        video_id = snippet["snippet"]["resourceId"]["videoId"]
        videos.append("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v={}".format(video_id))

playlist_id = playlist_link.split("list=")[1]  # Get playlist ID
get_video_links(req_no_token.format(playlist_id, api_key))  # Get video links for first page

while 1:
    try:  # Only works if there is a pageToken
        nextpagetoken = ids["nextPageToken"]
        print("Next page", nextpagetoken)
        get_video_links(req_with_token.format(nextpagetoken, playlist_id, api_key))

    except KeyError:
            break  # No next page

# Display results
print("\nRESULTS:\n")
print("\n".join(videos))