YouTube channel ID (P2397)
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ID of the YouTube channel of a person or organisation (not to be confused with the name of the channel) The ID can also be used for music.youtube.com IDs.
- YouTube channel identifier
- UCID
- YouTube channel
- YouTube account
- official YouTube channel
- yt channel
- Social Blade channel
- YouTube Music Artist ID
- externalId (YouTube)
- channel id
- YouTube
- youtube
- Youtube
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Configure| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | YouTube channel ID |
ID of the YouTube channel of a person or organisation (not to be confused with the name of the channel) The ID can also be used for music.youtube.com IDs. |
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Data type
External identifier
Statements
Q6757975 (Deleted Item)
Q383541 (Deleted Item)
https://music.youtube.com/channel/$1
Q28404534 (Deleted Item)
Q20923490 (Deleted Item)
https://www.youtubekids.com/channel/$1
Q30637282 (Deleted Item)
Q20923490 (Deleted Item)
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=$1
Q267956 (Deleted Item)
Q20923490 (Deleted Item)
UC[-_0-9A-Za-z]{21}[AQgw]
base64 hashed/salted serial identifier; different from human-readable username (English)
Q21502404 (Deleted Item)
UC[-_0-9A-Za-z]{21}[AQgw]
Q21502408 (Deleted Item)
Located from the source of the HTML page by searching the source for string: itemprop="channelId" (English)
The following command (when replacing CHANNELNAME) can be used on typical Linux distributions to extract the required channel ID to use for this property from a YouTube channel's URL that contains a channel name rather than channel ID: curl --no-progress-meter 'https://www.youtube.com/c/CHANNELNAME' | xmllint --html --recover --nowarning --xpath 'string(//meta[@itemprop="channelId"]/@content)' - 2>/dev/null (English)
Q21502838 (Deleted Item)
Q866 (Deleted Item)
Q18643737 (Deleted Item)
Q30637282 (Deleted Item)
Q41697543 (Deleted Item)
Q53720737 (Deleted Item)
Q55020669 (Deleted Item)
Q71060554 (Deleted Item)
Q21502408 (Deleted Item)
Q21502410 (Deleted Item)
Q12013 (Deleted Item)
Q4558504 (Deleted Item)
Q155979 (Deleted Item)
Q70361107 (Deleted Item)
Q106113840 (Deleted Item)
Q108732400 (Deleted Item)
Q111753969 (Deleted Item)
Q57618112 (Deleted Item)
Q5360101 (Deleted Item)
Q15900282 (Deleted Item)
Q16725696 (Deleted Item)
Q11415882 (Deleted Item)
Q21503250 (Deleted Item)
Q1067164 (Deleted Item)
Q43229 (Deleted Item)
Q16334295 (Deleted Item)
Q8513 (Deleted Item)
Q386724 (Deleted Item)
Q1190554 (Deleted Item)
Q4164871 (Deleted Item)
Q17558136 (Deleted Item)
Q618779 (Deleted Item)
Q2001305 (Deleted Item)
Q95074 (Deleted Item)
Q24634210 (Deleted Item)
Q102345381 (Deleted Item)
Q43501 (Deleted Item)
Q24354 (Deleted Item)
Q431289 (Deleted Item)
Q2281788 (Deleted Item)
Q16970 (Deleted Item)
Q1060829 (Deleted Item)
Q340169 (Deleted Item)
Q2906862 (Deleted Item)
Q13226383 (Deleted Item)
Q16887380 (Deleted Item)
Q21503252 (Deleted Item)
Q18658883 (Deleted Item)
Q21502838 (Deleted Item)
Q4167410 (Deleted Item)
Q4167836 (Deleted Item)
Q17362920 (Deleted Item)
Q21286738 (Deleted Item)
Q21502408 (Deleted Item)
Q21510851 (Deleted Item)
Q53869507 (Deleted Item)
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To obtain the URL, open the HTML source of the channel page and search for the <link rel="canonical"> tag. The human-readable username can be added as a "website username" (P554) qualifier, and the title of the channel can be provided with the "object stated as" (P1932) qualifier. (English)
24 February 2021
YouTube channels (1M+ subscribers)