Get Channel ID by Custom URL

[OskarEichler]

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Hey @LuanRT ,

As far as I'm aware it is currently not possible to grab channel information via the API using the custom URL of a channel.

The new custom URLs in the /c/xxxxx format are not supported. This is really frustrating, as often we rely on users to paste in their channel URL but we can't parse it correctly if they use the custom URL, and they have a hard time finding their Channel ID as the browser always redirects to the custom url.

Here is an example: https://www.youtube.com/c/WINKEDRecords

Is there some endpoint that can resolve the custom URL and return the channel ID so that we can fetch data correctly?

All the best, Oskar

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[LuanRT]

Yup, some time ago I found the endpoint /navigation/resolve_url in the Android client. And it does exactly what you said.

Ex;

curl --request POST \
  --url 'https://youtubei.googleapis.com/youtubei/v1/navigation/resolve_url?key=AIzaSyDCU8hByM-4DrUqRUYnGn-3llEO78bcxq8' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{
    "context": {
        "client": {
            "clientName": "ANDROID",
            "clientVersion": "17.29.33",
            "hl": "en"
        }
    }, 
    "url": "https://youtube.com/c/macmiller"
  }'

[OskarEichler]

LEGEND!! Thanks so much <3

[BobVarioa]

I think this issue isn't quite completed, it would be nice to have inbuilt library support for this.

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[ChunkyProgrammer]

@LuanRT this issue should probably be reopened