Get Youtube Playlist By Title

I'd like to create a private youtube playlist with the title 'my very unique title'. I'm able to create private playlists. But I'd like to create it only if it doesn't exists yet.

Solution 1:

Only way to do a direct word search is with the "search" parameter ( info found HERE).
But this will return for ALL of youtube and has a 100 Quota cost per search.

I would recommend to use the "playlists.list" to do your search.
Then you can look at each one for your "title".

[items] => Array
    (
        [0] => Array
            (
                [kind] => youtube#playlist
                [etag] => "uQc-MPTsstrHkQcRXL3IWLmeNsM/26W6-xxxxxxxx"
                [id] => PLsxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
                [snippet] => Array
                    (
                        [publishedAt] => some date
                        [channelId] => channelId
                        [title] => title you are looking for
                        [description] => Some description
                        [thumbnails] => Array

First will be [0] node, up to node [49] if that many.
And yes you will need to loop through the results each node at a time.