How to get YouTube channel name?

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user1293029 picture user1293029 · Jul 23, 2013 · Viewed 14.2k times · Source

I have searched in YouTube Documents and found nothing to get others channel name from a YouTube video.

That is,

I currently would like to get the channel name from a video, I only have the URL, how to get the channel name?

Answer

Ibrahim Ulukaya picture Ibrahim Ulukaya · Jul 23, 2013

You can do this easily by using YouTube Data API v3.

The latest part in the URL after "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=" is your VIDEO_ID.

Just do a videos->list with setting part="snippet". Then you can grab snippet.channelId in the response.

Request would be:

GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?part=snippet&id=EhNWzcUqGbI&key={YOUR_API_KEY}

for your example.

You can always try these using API explorer.

Great sample codes to get you started.

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