Retrieve your Channel ID
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You can use the form below to retrieve your channel ID or another channel's ID.
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To retrieve your own channel ID, authorize the request by setting the Authorize requests using OAuth 2.0 button at the top of the form to ON. Then send the request by clicking the blue button at the bottom of the form.
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To retrieve the channel ID for any channel that has a YouTube channel name, set the forUsername property in the form below to the channel name and the mine property to false.
Note: This form calls the YouTube Data API's channels.list method. By default, the form sets the part parameter value to snippet and the mine parameter value to true.
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Last updated 2024-03-14 UTC.
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