How to obtain the ID of a YouTube channel ?
If you are using the YouTube API and need to find the ID (ChannelID) of a specific YouTube channel, you can follow these simple steps:
- Access the page of the channel in question from your web browser (the page's address will be in the form of https://www.youtube.com/user/ChannelName).
- Display the page's source code (right-click and select "View Page Source").
- Search for the following in the page's source code: "browse_id" (you can use the browser's search function by pressing Ctrl + F or Cmd + F).
You will find the YouTube channel ID, which is a series of characters, as shown in the following example:
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By Guillaume - 05/02/2016 at 12:40 am