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Returns videos in playlist order with the playlist title and size.", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "videos": { "title": "Individual videos", "type": "array", "description": "Video URLs or IDs (watch, youtu.be, Shorts, embed, live). Always returns full details: views, likes, comments count, publish date, category, description and tags.", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "startUrls": { "title": "Any YouTube URLs", "type": "array", "description": "Mixed list of channel, playlist and video links. Each is detected automatically. Handy when pasting from a spreadsheet.", "items": { "type": "object", "required": [ "url" ], "properties": { "url": { "type": "string", "title": "URL of a web page", "format": "uri" } } } }, "maxResultsPerSource": { "title": "Max videos per search, playlist or channel tab", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 5000, "type": "integer", "description": "Stop after this many videos for each search keyword, playlist and channel tab. 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For channels, scraping stops at the first older video (tabs are newest first), so it is also a cheap way to monitor channels." }, "sortBy": { "title": "Search: sort by", "enum": [ "relevance", "uploadDate", "viewCount", "rating" ], "type": "string", "description": "Order of search results.", "default": "relevance" }, "uploadDate": { "title": "Search: upload date", "enum": [ "any", "hour", "today", "week", "month", "year" ], "type": "string", "description": "Only search results uploaded in this period. Results are also checked against the shown upload time, so older videos never slip in.", "default": "any" }, "duration": { "title": "Search: video length", "enum": [ "any", "short", "medium", "long" ], "type": "string", "description": "Short = under 4 minutes, medium = 4-20 minutes, long = over 20 minutes.", "default": "any" }, "searchType": { "title": "Search: result type", "enum": [ "video", "shorts" ], "type": "string", "description": "Regular videos, or YouTube Shorts only (uses YouTube's own Shorts search filter).", "default": "video" }, "language": { "title": "Interface language", "type": "string", "description": "Language code for YouTube texts such as '3 days ago' (e.g. en, de, es). Keep 'en' if you use the parsed numbers and dates.", "default": "en" }, "country": { "title": "Country", "type": "string", "description": "Two-letter country code. 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