*fifth, with SO's default sorting, after several screens full of wrong answers
It's a wonderful answer and I appreciate knowing about it now, because that process definitely wasn't the first idea that came to my mind. If only Google and SO had given that answer to me before I did the whole adventure I pasted into my post and comment.
It's search. I'm copy-pasting the content going down from the top of the page, adding my own commentary.
The mystery is solved. People are trying to provide good answers to strangers for free because they are good and helpful. Google's senseless reorganization of things is causing them not to function anymore. And then, Stack Overflow's bad configuration is defeating those good people's efforts to provide them to me.
I think we've learned that SO has succumbed to the same organizational syphilis that Google contracted a few years earlier.
I'll click on the link you sent me, and start reading carefully, trying to find the answer. Here's how it went. I am not faking or deliberately trying any wrong things here. I'm just grabbing the most central solution it's presenting me on any given page, and trying it.
Here's the progress:
or those who come across this after the latest Data API revision (31st January, 2024), they provided the forHandle query parameter to get data of a handle/username. You can refer to this answer for details here: stackoverflow.com/a/78074066/2665606 – Saqib Ahmed Commented Feb 29 at 10:01
Cool. I click on that question.
YouTube released a revision on 31st January 2024 to add a forHandle parameter in the channel list API that does exactly what OP asks.
You can call the channel list API with forHandle to get the channel ID and the upload playlist for that user/handle that you can subsequently use to fetch the videos.
GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels
Query parameters:
forHandle=FolkartTr OR @FolkartTr OR %40FolkartTr (this allows the '@' sign as well as URL encoding of it) key= part=contentDetails
Cool.
$ wget -O - https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels\?forHandle=Lindybeige
--2024-10-01 01:19:52-- https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels?forHandle=Lindybeige
Resolving www.googleapis.com (www.googleapis.com)... 2a00:1450:4009:822::200a, 2a00:1450:4009:826::200a, 2a00:1450:4009:823::200a, ...
Connecting to www.googleapis.com (www.googleapis.com)|2a00:1450:4009:822::200a|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
2024-10-01 01:19:52 ERROR 403: Forbidden.
Oh. I need an API key. Okay, that one's useless.
I read another answer.
If I understood correctly, your problem is that you can't do anything from such a c/ channel id with the Channels: list of the YouTube Data API v3. If you're just looking for the channel id linked to this id then because as YouTube Data API v3 doesn't work for this, I would recommend you to use my open-source YouTube operational API, indeed by requesting https://yt.lemnoslife.com/channels?cId=FolkartTr you'll receive a JSON with id equals to the channel id linked to the provided cId value.
That means nothing to me.
I hit back. We're back at the original page you linked me to:
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.
Already covered. It doesn't work.
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.
Are you getting sick of reading these? So am I! I want to remind that DDG gave me the answer at the top of the page, as a tool that would solve the problem for me.
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.
Edit:
Above is not working any more. But we can open Developer Tools (cmd + option + I) and try to find the URL there. Search by channel_id for some channels, it will show you, but NOT for all the channels.
By the way, if this is your own channel -- you can go here https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/channels/list and make request with part snippet and mine true.
Oh, I found this answer. Thank you, just works!
Edit:
Just in case you need UC channel id of any channel by the "YouTube handle", you can also use 'API Explorer' on the right of this page https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/channels/list and enter forHandle with your 'API key' (let me share screenshots below)
Sure, let's try the Cmd+Option+I solution.
Hey! Look at that. www.youtube.com wants to use my microphone. I can:
I think we're done here. For all I know I would have been able to find it in the network tab of developer tools while searching for the channel, but I think the point is made. I didn't say that the answer didn't exist anywhere on SO, I said that the things I was trying because either Google or SO were telling me they were the answer were not working.
Edit: I reread your comment and got confused. For me, the screenshot you're showing has 26 points, and shows up below all of the answers that I showed above, which have 259, 79, 32, and 30 points respectively. How many points does it have on your page, to show as the second highest answer? I didn't deliberately stop reading right before the answer. I absolutely made a sincere effort to find the answer on that page, documenting my progress as I went.
Ed Zitron diagnosed the causes and timing of the rot:
When smartphones were new, I started dating a girl who would roll over in bed first thing in the morning, pick up her phone, and start scrolling. I thought it was incredibly weird. Why not life? Why computer? Now, I do the same thing, and it's normal. Or rather it was until a couple of weeks ago.
The scary thing is that I'll start to get antsy as the one-hour mark comes near. I'll keep checking the clock for when I can pick it up and get my stimulation. So far it is working most days, though, and it feels like it improves the rest of the day for me.
No phone or screen usage for 1 hour after I wake up.
I haven't broken the addiction completely, but it's progress.
It won't be my fault.
Yes it will.
Come to !rcv@ponder.cat and make a better solution.
If you are waiting for either mainstream political party to suddenly become champions of the people on their own, and you're refusing to take certain actions even in the face of catastrophic threat until they do, then yes, it will be your fault if the catastrophe comes true.
That outcome may be fine for you, and you may feel virtuous about your participation in that outcome for your reasons. It's somewhat safe for you if you're wealthy and white and born in the US and not active in left-wing politics, and confident that that all of that will keep you safe from a second Trump presidency. Of course there's no way to be sure that it will. But regardless, a lot of people don't have that luxury.
There is a very real possibility that a person will come to power in this election who will end elections in the United States, end the rule of law, end protest, end socialism, end third parties, end elections in the future, install his hand-picked generals into the military and then turn the inconceivable power of the United States military loose, not just on a handful of victims who have come into our crosshairs from time to time, but wholesale onto anyone and everyone anywhere in the world who it comes into his head to target.
Do you define sending weapons to Israel as "enthusiastically participate?" Wait until US troops are on the ground in Gaza and Lebanon. Wait until Putin gets a green light to invade anywhere in eastern Europe that strikes his fancy. Wait until the US military is directly attacking anyone inside the borders of the United States that dares oppose his rule, or the rule of the person who comes after him, in this or any future election.
Wait until millions of people of the wrong ethnicity inside the United States are dying in concentration camps. Wait until legal immigrants are being deported by federal troops.
Yes, the system in the United States is far from democracy. Making it ten times worse is not a good solution. Pursuing a solution is a good solution.
Like I say, I have no idea where this argument that it is okay if Trump wins the election came into the comments for this article, but it is wrong, wrong wrong. It is not okay if Trump wins this election. If you actually care about the values expressed in this article I posted, you hopefully can see that. Maybe not.
There were no WMD's.
It's why we're helping Israel commit genocide.
It's why we're involved in Ukraine.
One of these sentences is not like the others.
If Harris wants my vote, tell me you're going to cut the military budget, not increase it.
Why is this tying back to refusing to vote for Harris? Am I crazy, or did that come completely out of nowhere at all?
If you care about genocide, destroying millions of lives, and making the rich richer, you should be phonebanking for Harris every day of the week. She may or may not be ideal but it hardly matters. Her opponent is 1,000% worse by any conceivable measurement.
And then, after the election is done: !rcv@ponder.cat to lay a foundation for better candidates beyond that in the future.
I think that over the next few years Sam Altman is going to learn the same lessons that events have been trying to teach Elon Musk since circa 2021.
I am fetching the RSS feeds for particular channels, for which I need the channel ID.
Google gives out not only the RSS feed, but also the channel ID, if you click the menu under “share”, as someone else pointed out to me a couple days ago. You are very confused about things. This thing about it being against the TOS is pure fantasy.