How can I get a channel ID from YouTube?

问题:

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
- [e-mail]
- fjTOrCPnAblTngWAzpnlMA

My channel is: http://www.youtube.com/user/klauskkpm

回答1:

To obtain the channel id you can view the source code of the channel page and find either data-channel-external-id="UCjXfkj5iapKHJrhYfAF9ZGg" or "externalId":"UCjXfkj5iapKHJrhYfAF9ZGg".

UCjXfkj5iapKHJrhYfAF9ZGg will be the channel ID you are looking for.

回答2:

Edit: This answer was outdated and incomplete. Now it can easily help everyone.

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.

Hope it help.

回答3:

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

回答4:

http://johnnythetank.github.io/youtube-channel-name-converter (Youtube Username to Channel ID Converter)

The Converter based on this api call: https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels?key={YOUR_API_KEY}&forUsername={USER_NAME}&part=id

回答5:

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.

回答6:

Channel id with the current youtube version is obtained very easily if you login to YouYube website and select 'My channel'

Your channel ID will be displayed on the address bar of your browser

回答7:

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.

回答8:

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 .

回答9:

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.

回答10:

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}

回答11:

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];
}

回答12:

It really is not hard anymore if you are linking to your own channel. Go to Account Settings: here

Click on the advanced link underneath your Google id top right and it will take you to a page with all sorts of useful things including your channel id.