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from googleapiclient.discovery import build

# developer keys for Youtube V3 API
DEVELOPER_KEY = 'YOUR_API_KEY'
YOUTUBE_API_SERVICE_NAME = "youtube"
YOUTUBE_API_VERSION = "v3"

# creating youtube resource object for interacting with api
youtube = build(YOUTUBE_API_SERVICE_NAME,
                YOUTUBE_API_VERSION,
                developerKey=DEVELOPER_KEY)
                
def get_playlist_id(name):
    """
    Search for the playlist id given a drama name.
    Parameters
    ----------
    name : str
        The name of the drama
    Returns
    -------
    playlist_id: str
        Resulted playlist id returned by Youtube API
    """
    
    #search for the first playlist result given a drama name
    search_response = youtube.search().list(q=name,type="playlist",part="id",maxResults=1).execute()
    result = search_response.get("items", [])
    playlist_id = result[0]['id']['playlistId']
    return playlist_id