How to get the first video from any YouTube channel in new version?

Question

In the previous YouTube version there was an option to get the first YouTube video as follows:

But the new version does not support this method. Is there any other way to get the first video of any YouTube channel?

By *first video* you mean the oldest one? – Benjamin Loison Nov 10 '22 at 22:32 — Benjamin Loison, Nov 10 '22 at 22:32

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 10 '22 at 22:32

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Sadly not as far as I know, at least not nearly as easily as it once was.

The only solution is to retrive ALL videos from a channel and then locally revert the most recent to oldest videos.

Hope this helps!

answered Nov 10 '22 at 22:32

Liam H.

score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 27 '22 at 12:37

Using youtube-dl or yt-dlp (a fork of the former, my current go-to)

You can use the following command-line expression to pull the first video:

yt-dlp https://www.youtube.com/<CHANNEL-ID> --playlist-reverse --max-downloads 1

Haven't found a way to do that with the Youtube UI.

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