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YouTube Getting a list of channels
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Getting a list of channels

The YouTube API lets you fetch a list of channels based on the specified filters. At least one filter must be specified, and some filters can't be used at the same time. A filter could for instance be a username or tell the API only to return channels of the authenticated user.

Pagination doesn't seems to be fully supported for channels, but then again, most scenarios would return a single or few channels.

Channels of the authenticated user

Calling the GetChannels method without any parameters will simply return a list of the channel(s) of the authenticated user:

YouTubeChannelsResponse response = service.YouTube.Channels.GetChannels();

foreach (YouTubeChannel item in response.Body.Items) {

    string id = item.Id;

    string title = item.Snippet.Title;

    long subcribers = item.Statistics.SubscriberCount;

}

This would be similar to calling:

YouTubeChannelsResponse responser = service.YouTube.Channels.GetChannels(new YouTubeChannelsOptions {
    Mine = true
});

Channels of a specific username

To get the channel(s) of another user, simply update the first call to:

YouTubeChannelsResponse response = service.YouTube.Channels.GetChannels("latenight");

This would be similar to calling:

YouTubeChannelsResponse response = service.YouTube.Channels.GetChannels(new YouTubeChannelsOptions {
    Username = "latenight"
});

Advanced

For more advanced use, you should have a look at the YouTubeChannelsOptions class.