Paginating in youtube API V3 - youtube

Question

I am new at youtube API V3 now I can get the videos of some user and display them at my site but now when the result is more than 50 video I want to make a paging for them lets say that my result is 240 so I have 5 pages now how I make the request for page number 4 with out go through links 1 , 2 or 3
Here is my list request:-
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/playlistItems?part=snippet&playlistId=UUdxi8d8qRsRyUi2ERYjYb-w&key={myKey}
there are a page token that allow me to go through the links but that mean that I must to use next and prev requests
so is there any way to load page 4 direct ?

Answer 1

There is no way to load a specific page directly you need to call the API with the nextPageToken for each page (so 4 times in your example).

Answer 2

I do not recommend this approach but include it for completleness as it provides a direct solution to the question whereas the other answer provides alternatives.
Youtube seems to use the same pageTokens regardless of playlist or date of access. E.g., the pageToken for the 2nd page is always CDIQAA, for the 3rd page CGQQAA, etc.
These aren't guranteed to always remain the same, but based on stackoverflow posts from as early as 2014, it hasn't changed in a long time, so it's a reasonable assumption.
So you could make the request for the first five pages as you normally do, then persist the page tokens (e.g. in a local cache). Then whenever you need e.g. the 240th item in the future, simply look up the 5th page token (which happens to be CMgBEAA) and access that page directly.
Here are the 1st 9 page tokens:
1 <blank>
2 CDIQAA
3 CGQQAA
4 CJYBEAA
5 CMgBEAA
6 CPoBEAA
7 CKwCEAA
8 CN4CEAA
9 CJADEAA