Export Every Playlist From a YouTube Channel to Excel
A channel with a dozen playlists means a dozen manual exports — unless you point one batch at the whole channel and get a single workbook back.
Updated 26 September 2026 · 6 min readA course creator with fifteen module playlists, a media brand organizing every season of a show, or a curator running a themed channel all hit the same wall: the playlists live on one channel, but exporting them means opening each one, copying its URL, running a separate export, and downloading a separate file. Twelve playlists means twelve trips through that loop before you even start merging the results.
This guide covers pointing a single batch at a whole channel instead, what the combined Excel output actually contains, the real free-vs-paid batch limits, and the situations where exporting a channel's entire playlist library at once is worth doing.
Why exporting a whole channel is tedious manually
YouTube's own export options stop at a single playlist. There's no channel-level "export everything" button, so the manual path is: open the channel's playlist tab, click into each playlist, copy its URL, run it through an export tool, download the file, and repeat for every remaining playlist. For a channel with three or four playlists that's mildly annoying. For a channel with twenty, it's an afternoon — and you still have a folder of separate files to stitch together before you can look at the whole library in one place.
The channel itself is the input, not a list of URLs
Exporting every playlist on a channel in one batch
Point the batch at the channel
Choose combined Excel or a ZIP of per-playlist files
Run the batch
Download and open in Excel
What the Excel output looks like
The batch returns one of four formats: a combined CSV, an Excel workbook, per-playlist CSVs in a ZIP, or JSON. In the combined options, every row carries the video and a column identifying the playlist it came from — so instead of opening ten files to see the whole library, you open one and filter or sort by that playlist column to isolate any single playlist, or work across all of them at once.
| Output option | Best for |
|---|---|
| Combined Excel workbook / CSV | Seeing the whole channel's playlists in one place, filtering by playlist column |
| Per-playlist CSVs in a ZIP | Keeping each playlist as a standalone file, e.g. archiving each module separately |
| JSON | Feeding the export into another script or system |
Free vs. paid batch limits
The batch size and how much of each playlist you get depend on your plan:
| Plan | Playlists per batch | Videos per playlist |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Up to 10 | 50% of each playlist (max 1,000 videos) |
| Paid | Up to 50 | Every video |
| Connect YouTube | Up to 200 | Every video |
Every tier also shares a 100,000-video ceiling per batch, and the cost is one credit per playlist that's actually exported successfully — not per video, and not for a playlist that fails.
Who actually needs a whole channel's playlists
- Auditing a competitor's full playlist library
A marketing team comparing content strategy against a competitor gets the entire structure in one workbook instead of exporting playlists one at a time and merging later.
- Archiving a semester's worth of course playlists
A teacher or course creator with one playlist per module or week gets the whole course archived in a single batch before videos go private or get taken down.
- Cataloging a media brand's seasons or series
A channel organized into one playlist per season or series gets everything documented in one file, ready to sort or filter by series.
How MyFreshTools Helps
What the tool does
Bulk Playlist Export exports many playlists — or a whole channel's playlists — in one batch, producing a combined CSV, Excel workbook, per-playlist CSVs in a ZIP, or JSON. Each row in a combined file is tagged with the playlist it came from, so you never lose track of which playlist a video belongs to.
Who it's for
- Course creators and educators archiving every module or lesson playlist.
- Marketing teams auditing a competitor's full content structure.
- Media brands and curators cataloging every season or series on a channel.
How to use it
- Point the batch at the channel instead of pasting individual playlist URLs.
- Pick combined Excel/CSV for one file, or per-playlist CSVs in a ZIP for separate files.
- Run the batch — 1 credit per 1,000 videos is charged for each playlist that exports successfully (most playlists are 1 credit).
Requirements and limits
- A free MyFreshTools account. No card, free credits on signup.
- Free: up to 10 playlists per batch, 50% of each playlist's videos (up to 1,000 each).
- Paid: up to 50 playlists per batch, every video included.
- Connect YouTube: up to 200 playlists per batch, every video included.
- Every plan shares a 100,000-video-per-batch ceiling.
- 1 credit per 1,000 videos in each playlist successfully exported (most playlists are 1 credit) — nothing charged for a failed one.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Bulk Playlist Export can be pointed at a channel instead of a list of individual playlist URLs, and it runs the whole set as one batch instead of one export per playlist.
You choose a combined CSV, an Excel workbook, per-playlist CSVs in a ZIP, or JSON. In every combined option, each row is tagged with the playlist it came from, so a single file still shows you exactly which playlist each video belongs to.
Free accounts can batch up to 10 playlists and get 50% of each playlist's videos (up to 1,000 each). Paid plans raise that to 50 playlists per batch with every video included, and connecting YouTube raises the playlist count further to 200 per batch.
Yes — every plan shares a 100,000-video ceiling per batch, on top of the per-playlist and per-batch playlist-count limits for your plan.
1 credit per 1,000 videos in each playlist that's successfully exported, so most playlists cost 1 credit. A channel with 8 playlists of under 1,000 videos each that all export cleanly costs 8 credits; a playlist that fails isn't charged.
The takeaway
A channel with many playlists doesn't need a manual export per playlist — pointing one batch at the channel returns every playlist in a single tagged Excel workbook, with the free-vs-paid limits determining how many playlists and how much of each you get back.