Theo's Typesafe Cult•2y ago

YouTube Data API

Hi, I would like to write a script, that get the channel_id from a channel url. For this, I was trying to use the username: https://www.youtube.com/@t3dotgg -> t3dotgg https://youtube.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels?part=id&forUsername=t3dotgg&key=[YOUR_API_KEY] but I get this response: 200

{
  "kind": "youtube#channelListResponse",
  "etag": "RuuXzTIr0OoDqI4S0RU6n4FqKEM",
  "pageInfo": {
    "totalResults": 0,
    "resultsPerPage": 5
  }
}

{
  "kind": "youtube#channelListResponse",
  "etag": "RuuXzTIr0OoDqI4S0RU6n4FqKEM",
  "pageInfo": {
    "totalResults": 0,
    "resultsPerPage": 5
  }
}

but if I use a different username like ludwig it works: 200

{
  "kind": "youtube#channelListResponse",
  "etag": "TAcFH8yqbppZUNBGKLFmQiISJUg",
  "pageInfo": {
    "totalResults": 1,
    "resultsPerPage": 5
  },
  "items": [
    {
      "kind": "youtube#channel",
      "etag": "uyh-UPnVJ-53EQBU_y-FVSAZ7xw",
      "id": "UCZL4arowpEICMkWEPyx_vaQ"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "kind": "youtube#channelListResponse",
  "etag": "TAcFH8yqbppZUNBGKLFmQiISJUg",
  "pageInfo": {
    "totalResults": 1,
    "resultsPerPage": 5
  },
  "items": [
    {
      "kind": "youtube#channel",
      "etag": "uyh-UPnVJ-53EQBU_y-FVSAZ7xw",
      "id": "UCZL4arowpEICMkWEPyx_vaQ"
    }
  ]
}

3 Replies

Diogo•2y ago

try this instead https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=id,snippet&maxResults=1&type=channel&q=t3dotgg dont forget the api key

Ayato•2y ago

Ohh yea, that worked, thank you very much, do you know why the above method works for some but not for all?

Diogo•2y ago

no idea kkkkk never worked with youtube api

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