I'm trying to retrive the data from my channel using the YouTube Data API V3.
For that I need my channel ID.
I've tried to find my channel ID from my YouTube account, and I failed in every single way.
If anyone have a single tip for me, I would be incredible glad.
This is the URL that I'm using to retrieve the data:
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels?id=fjTOrCPnAblTngWAzpnlMA&key={YOUR_API_KEY}&part=snippet,contentDetails,statistics
The ID is for the channel ID, and the key, I'm replacing the {YOUR_API_KEY} with my API KEY generated at my Google API console.
My channel ID is not:
- klauskkpm
- klausmachado
- [email protected]
- fjTOrCPnAblTngWAzpnlMA
My channel is: http://www.youtube.com/user/klauskkpm
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An alternative to get youtube channel ID by channel url without API:
function get_youtube_channel_ID($url){
$html = file_get_contents($url);
preg_match("'<meta itemprop=\"channelId\" content=\"(.*?)\"'si", $html, $match);
if($match && $match[1])
return $match[1];
}
An easy answer is, your YouTube Channel ID is UC + {YOUR_ACCOUNT_ID}. To be sure of your YouTube Channel ID or your YouTube account ID, access the advanced settings at your settings page
And if you want to know the YouTube Channel ID for any channel, you could use the solution @mjlescano gave.
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels?key={YOUR_API_KEY}&forUsername={USER_NAME}&part=id
If this could be of any help, some user marked it was solved in another topic right here.
You can use this website to obtain a channelId
https://commentpicker.com/youtube-channel-id.php
This website finds a YouTube Channel ID from its URL:
https://www.youtube.com/account_advanced now provides both channel and user ids. See also https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/guides/working_with_channel_ids .
At any channel page with "user" url for example http://www.youtube.com/user/klauskkpm
, without API call, from YouTube UI, click a video of the channel (in its "VIDEOS" tab) and click the channel name on the video. Then you can get to the page with its "channel" url for example https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfjTOrCPnAblTngWAzpnlMA
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2017 Update: Henry's answer may be a little off the mark here. If you look for data-channel-external-id
in the source code you may find more than one ID, and only the first occurrence is actually correct. Get the channel_id
used in <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=<VALUE_HERE">
instead.
You can get the channel ID with the username (in your case "klauskkpm") using the filter "forUsername", like this:
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels?key={YOUR_API_KEY}&forUsername=klauskkpm&part=id
More info here: https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/channels/list
I just found the simplest way to find the channel ID of any YouTube channel !!
Step 1: Play a video of that channel.
Step 2: Click the channel name under that video.
Step 3: Look at the browser address bar.
To obtain the channel id you can do the following request which gives you the channel id and playlist id.
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels?part=contentDetails%2C+statistics%2Csnippet&mine=true&key={YOUR_API_KEY}
mine parameter means the current authorized user
as u said channel id is perfixed with UC+{your account id} which you get while login, you can use this one also without requesting the above url you can directly call the channel api with your google id and just prefix with UC
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels?part=contentDetails%2C+statistics%2Csnippet&id=UC{your account id}&key={YOUR_API_KEY}
Source: Stackoverflow.com