Youtube Data API v3 pageToken for arbitrary page

Question

Another question on SO revealed that pageTokens are identical for different searches, provided that the page number and maxResults settings are the same.

Version 2

Answer 1

YouTube's pagetokens can be treated as indices.

• Pagetokens for the first 1000 items can be found here.
• Pagetokens for every 10th item in range(1, 100000) can be found here.
• The highest available pagetoken is "CJ-NBhAA" which points to the 100.000th item with position 99.999.
• The highest possible value for maxresults is 50.

Use pagetoken to specify a starting point and maxresults to specify the number of items.

Examples:

• 1st item

https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/playlistItems?part=id%2Csnippet&playlistId=&key=&maxResults=1&pageToken=CAAQAA

• 555th item

https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/playlistItems?part=id%2Csnippet&playlistId=&key=&maxResults=1&pageToken=CKoEEAA

• 99999th item

https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/playlistItems?part=id%2Csnippet&playlistId=&key=&maxResults=1&pageToken=CJ6NBhAA

• 10 items starting at 10th item

https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/playlistItems?part=id%2Csnippet&playlistId=&key=&maxResults=10&pageToken=CAkQAA

• 30 items starting at 555th item

https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/playlistItems?part=id%2Csnippet&playlistId=&key=&maxResults=30&pageToken=CKoEEAA

• 50 items starting at 9999th item

https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/playlistItems?part=id%2Csnippet&playlistId=&key=&maxResults=50&pageToken=CI9OEAA