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A channel resource contains information about a YouTube channel.

Methods

The API supports the following methods for channels resources:

list
Returns a collection of zero or more channel resources that match the request criteria.
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Updates a channel's metadata. Note that this method currently only supports updates to the channel resource's brandingSettings and invideoPromotion objects and their child properties.
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Resource representation

The following JSON structure shows the format of a channels resource:

{
   "kind": "youtube#channel",
   "etag": etag,
   "id": string,
   "snippet": {
     "title": string,
     "description": string,
     "customUrl": string,
     "publishedAt": datetime,
     "thumbnails": {
       (key): {
         "url": string,
         "width": unsigned integer,
         "height": unsigned integer
       }
     },
     "defaultLanguage": string,
     "localized": {
       "title": string,
       "description": string
     },
     "country": string
   },
   "contentDetails": {
     "relatedPlaylists": {
       "likes": string,
       "favorites": string,
       "uploads": string
     }
   },
   "statistics": {
     "viewCount": unsigned long,
     "subscriberCount": unsigned long,  // this value is rounded to three significant figures
     "hiddenSubscriberCount": boolean,
     "videoCount": unsigned long
   },
   "topicDetails": {
     "topicIds": [
       string
     ],
     "topicCategories": [
       string
     ]
   },
   "status": {
     "privacyStatus": string,
     "isLinked": boolean,
     "longUploadsStatus": string,
     "madeForKids": boolean,
     "selfDeclaredMadeForKids": boolean
   },
   "brandingSettings": {
     "channel": {
       "title": string,
       "description": string,
       "keywords": string,
       "trackingAnalyticsAccountId": string,
       "unsubscribedTrailer": string,
       "defaultLanguage": string,
       "country": string
     },
     "watch": {
       "textColor": string,
       "backgroundColor": string,
       "featuredPlaylistId": string
     }
   },
   "auditDetails": {
     "overallGoodStanding": boolean,
     "communityGuidelinesGoodStanding": boolean,
     "copyrightStrikesGoodStanding": boolean,
     "contentIdClaimsGoodStanding": boolean
   },
   "contentOwnerDetails": {
     "contentOwner": string,
     "timeLinked": datetime
   },
   "localizations": {
     (key): {
       "title": string,
       "description": string
     }
   }
 }

Properties

The following table defines the properties that appear in this resource:

Properties




kind
string

Identifies the API resource's type. The value will be youtube#channel.


etag
etag

The Etag of this resource.


id
string

The ID that YouTube uses to uniquely identify the channel.


snippet
object

The snippet object contains basic details about the channel, such as its title, description, and thumbnail images.


snippet.title
string

The channel's title.


snippet.description
string

The channel's description. The property's value has a maximum length of 1000 characters.


snippet.customUrl
string

The channel's custom URL. The YouTube Help Center explains eligibility requirements for getting a custom URL as well as how to set up the URL.


snippet.publishedAt
datetime

The date and time that the channel was created. The value is specified in ISO 8601 format.


snippet.thumbnails
object

A map of thumbnail images associated with the channel. For each object in the map, the key is the name of the thumbnail image, and the value is an object that contains other information about the thumbnail.

When displaying thumbnails in your application, make sure that your code uses the image URLs exactly as they are returned in API responses. For example, your application should not use the http domain instead of the https domain in a URL returned in an API response.

Channel thumbnail URLs are available only in the https domain, which is how the URLs appear in API responses. You might see broken images in your application if it tries to load YouTube images from the http domain. Thumbnail images might be empty for newly created channels and might take up to one day to populate.


snippet.thumbnails.(key)
object

Valid key values are:default – The default thumbnail image. The default thumbnail for a video – or a resource that refers to a video, such as a playlist item or search result – is 120px wide and 90px tall. The default thumbnail for a channel is 88px wide and 88px tall.medium – A higher resolution version of the thumbnail image. For a video (or a resource that refers to a video), this image is 320px wide and 180px tall. For a channel, this image is 240px wide and 240px tall.high – A high resolution version of the thumbnail image. For a video (or a resource that refers to a video), this image is 480px wide and 360px tall. For a channel, this image is 800px wide and 800px tall.


snippet.thumbnails.(key).url
string

The image's URL. For additional guidelines on using thumbnail URLs in your application, see the snippet.thumbnails property definition.


snippet.thumbnails.(key).width
unsigned integer

The image's width.


snippet.thumbnails.(key).height
unsigned integer

The image's height.


snippet.defaultLanguage
string

The language of the text in the channel resource's snippet.title and snippet.description properties.


snippet.localized
object

The snippet.localized object contains a localized title and description for the channel or it contains the channel's title and description in the default language for the channel's metadata. Localized text is returned in the resource snippet if the channels.list request used the hl parameter to specify a language for which localized text should be returned, the hl parameter value identifies a YouTube application language, and localized text is available in that language. Metadata for the default language is returned if an hl parameter value is not specified or a value is specified but localized metadata is not available for the specified language. The property contains a read-only value. Use the localizations object to add, update, or delete localized metadata.


snippet.localized.title
string

The localized channel title.


snippet.localized.description
string

The localized channel description.


snippet.country
string

The country with which the channel is associated. To set this property's value, update the value of the brandingSettings.channel.country property.


contentDetails
object

The contentDetails object encapsulates information about the channel's content.


contentDetails.relatedPlaylists
object

The relatedPlaylists object is a map that identifies playlists associated with the channel, such as the channel's uploaded videos or liked videos. You can retrieve any of these playlists using the playlists.list method.


contentDetails.relatedPlaylists.likes
string

The ID of the playlist that contains the channel's liked videos. Use the playlistItems.insert and playlistItems.delete methods to add or remove items from that list.


contentDetails.relatedPlaylists.favorites
string

This property has been deprecated.

The ID of the playlist that contains the channel's favorite videos. Use the playlistItems.insert and playlistItems.delete methods to add or remove items from that list.

Note that YouTube has deprecated favorite video functionality. For example, the video resource's statistics.favoriteCount property was deprecated on August 28, 2015. As a result, for historical reasons, this property value might contain a playlist ID that refers to an empty playlist and, therefore, cannot be fetched.


contentDetails.relatedPlaylists.uploads
string

The ID of the playlist that contains the channel's uploaded videos. Use the videos.insert method to upload new videos and the videos.delete method to delete previously uploaded videos.


statistics
object

The statistics object encapsulates statistics for the channel.


statistics.viewCount
unsigned long

The number of times the channel has been viewed.


statistics.commentCount
unsigned long

This property has been deprecated.


The number of comments for the channel.


statistics.subscriberCount
unsigned long

The number of subscribers that the channel has. This value is rounded down to three
significant figures. For more details about how subscriber counts are rounded, see
Revision History or
YouTube Help Center.


statistics.hiddenSubscriberCount
boolean

Indicates whether the channel's subscriber count is publicly visible.


statistics.videoCount
unsigned long

The number of public videos uploaded to the channel. Note that the value reflects the count of
the channel's public videos only, even to owners. This behavior is consistent with counts
shown on the YouTube website.


topicDetails
object

The topicDetails object encapsulates information about topics associated with the channel.

Important: For more details about changes related to topic IDs, see the topicDetails.topicIds[] property definition and the revision history.


topicDetails.topicIds[]
list

A list of topic IDs associated with the channel.

This property has been deprecated as of November 10, 2016. It will be supported until November 10, 2017.

Important: Due to the deprecation of Freebase and the Freebase API, topic IDs started working differently as of February 27, 2017. At that time, YouTube started returning a small set of curated topic IDs.



See topic IDs supported as of February 15, 2017


Topics


Music topics


/m/04rlf
Music (parent topic)


/m/02mscn
Christian music


/m/0ggq0m
Classical music


/m/01lyv
Country


/m/02lkt
Electronic music


/m/0glt670
Hip hop music


/m/05rwpb
Independent music


/m/03_d0
Jazz


/m/028sqc
Music of Asia


/m/0g293
Music of Latin America


/m/064t9
Pop music


/m/06cqb
Reggae


/m/06j6l
Rhythm and blues


/m/06by7
Rock music


/m/0gywn
Soul music


Gaming topics


/m/0bzvm2
Gaming (parent topic)


/m/025zzc
Action game


/m/02ntfj
Action-adventure game


/m/0b1vjn
Casual game


/m/02hygl
Music video game


/m/04q1x3q
Puzzle video game


/m/01sjng
Racing video game


/m/0403l3g
Role-playing video game


/m/021bp2
Simulation video game


/m/022dc6
Sports game


/m/03hf_rm
Strategy video game


Sports topics


/m/06ntj
Sports (parent topic)


/m/0jm_
American football


/m/018jz
Baseball


/m/018w8
Basketball


/m/01cgz
Boxing


/m/09xp_
Cricket


/m/02vx4
Football


/m/037hz
Golf


/m/03tmr
Ice hockey


/m/01h7lh
Mixed martial arts


/m/0410tth
Motorsport


/m/07bs0
Tennis


/m/07_53
Volleyball


Entertainment topics


/m/02jjt
Entertainment (parent topic)


/m/09kqc
Humor


/m/02vxn
Movies


/m/05qjc
Performing arts


/m/066wd
Professional wrestling


/m/0f2f9
TV shows


Lifestyle topics


/m/019_rr
Lifestyle (parent topic)


/m/032tl
Fashion


/m/027x7n
Fitness


/m/02wbm
Food


/m/03glg
Hobby


/m/068hy
Pets


/m/041xxh
Physical attractiveness [Beauty]


/m/07c1v
Technology


/m/07bxq
Tourism


/m/07yv9
Vehicles


Society topics


/m/098wr
Society (parent topic)


/m/09s1f
Business


/m/0kt51
Health


/m/01h6rj
Military


/m/05qt0
Politics


/m/06bvp
Religion


Other topics


/m/01k8wb
Knowledge






topicDetails.topicCategories[]
list

A list of Wikipedia URLs that describe the channel's content.


status
object

The status object encapsulates information about the privacy status of the channel.


status.privacyStatus
string

Privacy status of the channel.

Valid values for this property are:

private
public
unlisted



status.isLinked
boolean

Indicates whether the channel data identifies a user that is already linked to either a YouTube username or a Google+ account. A user that has one of these links already has a public YouTube identity, which is a prerequisite for several actions, such as uploading videos.


status.longUploadsStatus
string

Indicates whether the channel is eligible to upload videos that are more than 15 minutes long. This property is only returned if the channel owner authorized the API request. For more information about this feature, see YouTube Help Center.

Valid values for this property are:

allowed – This channel can upload videos that are more than 15 minutes long.
disallowed – This channel is not able or eligible to upload videos that are more than 15 minutes long. A channel is only eligible to upload long videos if it is in good standing based on YouTube Community Guidelines and it does not have any worldwide Content ID blocks on its content.

After the channel owner resolves the issues that are preventing the channel from uploading longer videos, the channel will revert to either the allowed or eligible state.
eligible – This channel is eligible to upload videos that are more than 15 minutes long. However, the channel owner must first enable the ability to upload longer videos through Phone verification. For more details about this feature, see YouTube Help Center.



status.madeForKids
boolean

This value indicates whether the channel is designated as child-directed, and it contains
the current "made for kids" status of the channel. For example, the status might be
determined based on the value of the selfDeclaredMadeForKids property. For more
information about setting the audience for your channel, videos, or broadcasts, see
YouTube Help Center .


status.selfDeclaredMadeForKids
boolean

In a channels.update request,
this property allows the channel owner to designate the channel as child-directed. The
property value is only returned if the channel owner authorized the API request.



brandingSettings
object

The brandingSettings object encapsulates information about the branding of the channel.


brandingSettings.channel
object

The channel object encapsulates branding properties of the channel page.


brandingSettings.channel.title
string

The channel's title. The title has a maximum length of 30 characters.


brandingSettings.channel.description
string

The channel description, which appears in the channel information box on your channel page. The property's value has a maximum length of 1000 characters.


brandingSettings.channel.keywords
string

Keywords associated with your channel. The value is a space-separated list of strings. Channel
keywords might be truncated if they exceed the maximum allowed length of 500 characters or
if they contained unescaped quotation marks ("). Note that the 500 character
limit is not a per-keyword limit but rather a limit on the total length of all keywords.


brandingSettings.channel.trackingAnalyticsAccountId
string

The ID for a Google Analytics account that you want to use to track and measure traffic to your channel.


brandingSettings.channel.unsubscribedTrailer
string

The video that should play in the featured video module in the channel page's browse view for unsubscribed viewers. Subscribed viewers may see a different video that highlights more recent channel activity.

If specified, the property's value must be the YouTube video ID of a public or unlisted video that is owned by the channel owner.


brandingSettings.channel.defaultLanguage
string

The language of the text in the channel resource's snippet.title and snippet.description properties.


brandingSettings.channel.country
string

The country with which the channel is associated. Update this property to set the value of the snippet.country property.


brandingSettings.watch
object

Note: This object and all of its child properties have been deprecated.

The watch object encapsulates branding properties of the watch pages for the channel's videos.


brandingSettings.watch.textColor
string

Note: This property has been deprecated.

The text color for the video watch page's branded area.


brandingSettings.watch.backgroundColor
string

Note: This property has been deprecated.

The background color for the video watch page's branded area.


brandingSettings.watch.featuredPlaylistId
string

Note: This property has been deprecated. The API returns an error if you attempt to set its value.


brandingSettings.image
object

This property and all of its child properties have been deprecated.


The image object encapsulates information about images that display on the channel's channel page or video watch pages.


brandingSettings.image.bannerImageUrl
string

This property has been deprecated.


The URL for the banner image shown on the channel page on the YouTube website. The image is 1060px by 175px.


brandingSettings.image.bannerMobileImageUrl
string

This property has been deprecated.


The URL for the banner image shown on the channel page in mobile applications. The image is 640px by 175px.


brandingSettings.image.watchIconImageUrl
string

This property has been deprecated.


The URL for the image that appears above the video player. This is a 25-pixel-high image with a flexible width that cannot exceed 170 pixels. If you do not provide this image, your channel name will appear instead of an image.


brandingSettings.image.trackingImageUrl
string

This property has been deprecated.


The URL for a 1px by 1px tracking pixel that can be used to collect statistics for views of the channel or video pages.


brandingSettings.image.bannerTabletLowImageUrl
string

This property has been deprecated.


The URL for a low-resolution banner image that displays on the channel page in tablet applications. The image's maximum size is 1138px by 188px.


brandingSettings.image.bannerTabletImageUrl
string

This property has been deprecated.


The URL for a banner image that displays on the channel page in tablet applications. The image is 1707px by 283px.


brandingSettings.image.bannerTabletHdImageUrl
string

This property has been deprecated.


The URL for a high-resolution banner image that displays on the channel page in tablet applications. The image's maximum size is 2276px by 377px.


brandingSettings.image.bannerTabletExtraHdImageUrl
string

This property has been deprecated.


The URL for an extra-high-resolution banner image that displays on the channel page in tablet applications. The image's maximum size is 2560px by 424px.


brandingSettings.image.bannerMobileLowImageUrl
string

This property has been deprecated.


The URL for a low-resolution banner image that displays on the channel page in mobile applications. The image's maximum size is 320px by 88px.


brandingSettings.image.bannerMobileMediumHdImageUrl
string

This property has been deprecated.


The URL for a medium-resolution banner image that displays on the channel page in mobile applications. The image's maximum size is 960px by 263px.


brandingSettings.image.bannerMobileHdImageUrl
string

This property has been deprecated.


The URL for a high-resolution banner image that displays on the channel page in mobile applications. The image's maximum size is 1280px by 360px.


brandingSettings.image.bannerMobileExtraHdImageUrl
string

This property has been deprecated.


The URL for a very high-resolution banner image that displays on the channel page in mobile applications. The image's maximum size is 1440px by 395px.


brandingSettings.image.bannerTvImageUrl
string

This property has been deprecated.


The URL for an extra-high-resolution banner image that displays on the channel page in television applications. The image's maximum size is 2120px by 1192px.


brandingSettings.image.bannerTvLowImageUrl
string

This property has been deprecated.


The URL for a low-resolution banner image that displays on the channel page in television applications. The image's maximum size is 854px by 480px.


brandingSettings.image.bannerTvMediumImageUrl
string

This property has been deprecated.


The URL for a medium-resolution banner image that displays on the channel page in television applications. The image's maximum size is 1280px by 720px.


brandingSettings.image.bannerTvHighImageUrl
string

This property has been deprecated.


The URL for a high-resolution banner image that displays on the channel page in television applications. The image's maximum size is 1920px by 1080px.


brandingSettings.image.bannerExternalUrl
string

This property specifies the location of the banner image that YouTube uses to generate
the various banner image sizes for a channel.


brandingSettings.hints[]
list

This property and all of its child properties have been deprecated.


The hints object encapsulates additional branding properties.


brandingSettings.hints[].property
string

This property has been deprecated.


A property.


brandingSettings.hints[].value
string

This property has been deprecated.


The property's value.


auditDetails
object

The auditDetails object encapsulates channel data that a multichannel network (MCN) would evaluate while determining whether to accept or reject a particular channel. Note that any API request that retrieves this resource part must provide an authorization token that contains the https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtubepartner-channel-audit scope. In addition, any token that uses that scope must be revoked when the MCN decides to accept or reject the channel or within two weeks of the date that the token was issued.


auditDetails.overallGoodStanding
boolean

This field indicates whether there are any issues with the channel. Currently, this field represents the result of the logical AND operation over the communityGuidelinesGoodStanding, copyrightStrikesGoodStanding, and contentIdClaimsGoodStanding properties, meaning that this property has a value of true if all of those other properties also have a value of true. However, this property will have a value of false if any of those properties has a value of false. Note, however, that the methodology used to set this property's value is subject to change.


auditDetails.communityGuidelinesGoodStanding
boolean

Indicates whether the channel respects YouTube's community guidelines.


auditDetails.copyrightStrikesGoodStanding
boolean

Indicates whether the channel has any copyright strikes.


auditDetails.contentIdClaimsGoodStanding
boolean

Indicates whether the channel has any unresolved claims.


contentOwnerDetails
object

The contentOwnerDetails object encapsulates channel data that is visible only to the YouTube Partner that has linked the channel to their Content Manager.


contentOwnerDetails.contentOwner
string

The ID of the content owner linked to the channel.


contentOwnerDetails.timeLinked
datetime

The date and time of when the channel was linked to the content owner. The value is specified in ISO 8601 format.


localizations
object

The localizations object encapsulates translations of the channel's metadata.


localizations.(key)
object

The language of the localized metadata associated with the key value. The value is a string that contains a BCP-47 language code.


localizations.(key).title
string

The localized channel title.


localizations.(key).description
string

The localized channel description.