Getting YouTube channel profile picture with channelId

Question

So I'm trying to get the channel profile picture for a YouTube channel by using the channelId.

I would like to do it simply by adding the channelId to a URL and get the image that way. Facebook has something similar where you use this URL:

http://graph.facebook.com/user_id/picture?type=square

Google+ has it too, found this question here. Sadly it didn't work for YouTube (I couldn't get it to work)

Hope someone has a solution!

Thanks in advance :)

Answer 1

You can use channels->list request for that.

In response you will get snippet.thumbnails."default".url for that

For authenticated user's channel:

GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels?part=snippet&mine=true&fields=items%2Fsnippet%2Fthumbnails&key={YOUR_API_KEY}

Or for any channel ID:

GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels?part=snippet&id+CHANNEL_ID&fields=items%2Fsnippet%2Fthumbnails&key={YOUR_API_KEY}