I would like to fetch details of a YouTube channel which has a custom URL, like https://www.youtube.com/c/pratiksinhchudasamaisawesome.
Custom channel URLs follow this format: https://www.youtube.com/c/{custom_channel_name}.
I can fetch the details of YouTube channels by Channel ID and username without any issues. Unfortunately, I need to use the custom channel URL which is the only time I encounter this issue.
I developed my app few months ago, and the custom channel URL was working up until a few days ago. Now, the YouTube data API does not return anything for the YouTube custom channel URL if I try get details using their custom name.
To get the details of this channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/thenewboston, for example, the request would be:
GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels?part=snippet&forUsername=thenewboston&key={YOUR_API_KEY}Response
200- SHOW HEADERS -{"kind": "youtube#channelListResponse","etag": "\"zekp1FB4kTkkM-rWc1qIAAt-BWc/8Dz6-vPu69KX3yZxVCT3-M9YWQA\"","pageInfo": {"totalResults": 1,"resultsPerPage": 5 },"items": [ {"kind": "youtube#channel","etag": "\"zekp1FB4kTkkM-rWc1qIAAt-BWc/KlQLDlUPRAmACwKt9V8V2yrOfEg\"","id": "UCJbPGzawDH1njbqV-D5HqKw","snippet": {"title": "thenewboston","description": "Tons of sweet computer related tutorials and some other awesome videos too!","publishedAt": "2008-02-04T16:09:31.000Z","thumbnails": {"default": {"url": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/--n5ELY2uT-U/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/d9JvaIEpstw/s88-c-k-no-rj-c0xffffff/photo.jpg" },"medium": {"url": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/--n5ELY2uT-U/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/d9JvaIEpstw/s240-c-k-no-rj-c0xffffff/photo.jpg" },"high": {"url": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/--n5ELY2uT-U/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/d9JvaIEpstw/s240-c-k-no-rj-c0xffffff/photo.jpg" } },"localized": {"title": "thenewboston","description": "Tons of sweet computer related tutorials and some other awesome videos too!" } } } ]}It works perfectly.
Now we have to get details of these channels:
Then we get:
GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels?part=snippet&forUsername=annacavalli&key={YOUR_API_KEY}Response
200- SHOW HEADERS -{"kind": "youtube#channelListResponse","etag": "\"zekp1FB4kTkkM-rWc1qIAAt-BWc/TAiG4jjJ-NTZu7gPKn7WGmuaZb8\"","pageInfo": {"totalResults": 0,"resultsPerPage": 5 },"items": [ ]}This can be easily reproduced using the API explorer.