How to get youtube channel id using channel custom name?

Question

My question is very similar to this one, I want to get channel id using channel custom name.

The answer on the question mentioned above which is:

GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=id%2Csnippet&q=annacavalli&type=channel&key={YOUR_API_KEY}

doesn't work on small channels, for ex. when I run it with this channel: https://www.youtube.com/AnnaShearerfashionfettish it returns nothing.

Possible duplicate of [How to get Youtube channel details using Youtube data API if channel has custom url](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37267324/how-to-get-youtube-channel-details-using-youtube-data-api-if-channel-has-custom) — Linda Lawton - DaImTo, Nov 03 '17 at 14:02
as you can see, I've already mentioned in the question that it is very similar to this question, but the answer there doesn't work with me. So I asked this question. — Mahmoud Hanafy, Nov 03 '17 at 15:02
then you should ask for clarification on the existing question not open a second question — Linda Lawton - DaImTo, Nov 03 '17 at 15:03
I asked for clarification at the answer there, but how can I like reshow this question to be able to get an answer for my case? — Mahmoud Hanafy, Nov 03 '17 at 15:05

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 17 '20 at 12:04

It's very easy, using curl and grep.

Command

channel_name='DOVASYNDROMEYouTubeOfficial' #change this as you like
curl --silent "https://www.youtube.com/c/${channel_name}/videos" |\
    grep -o -P '(?<=canonical" href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/)[^"]*'

Output

UCq15_9MvmxT1r2-LLjtkokg

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 14 '17 at 14:31

I didn't find a direct way to do this. I did a GET request to get the channel page HTML and parse it.

I used Jsoup to parse the html response.

val doc = Jsoup.parseBodyFragment(body)
val links = doc.select("link[rel=canonical]")
val channelUrl = links.first().attributes().get("href")

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 08 '17 at 00:15

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Did you try

https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels?part=snippetforUsername={username}&key={your key}

Remember to change {your key} to your API key, and {username} to the desired username.

answered Nov 08 '17 at 00:15

W. Reyna

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I don't need to get channel id for user. I need it for custom channels. – Mahmoud Hanafy Nov 14 '17 at 14:27

How to get youtube channel id using channel custom name?

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