YouTube Channel ID and Channel URL format

YouTube Channel ID format

24-digit unique ID which is mixed of numbers and CaSe SeNsItive letters and started with 'UC'.

 

How to find YouTube channel related to music

1. youtube_channel.official_artist

2. Find YouTube channel based on YouTube for Artist

SELECT *
FROM youtube_artist ya
JOIN cm_url cu ON cu.target = 'cm_artist' AND cu.target_id = ya.cm_artist::TEXT AND cu.type=3
JOIN youtube_channel yc ON yc.id = cu.account_id;

 

3. End with specific strings like,

- 'VEVO'

- 'Official'

- ' - Topic'

A topic channel is where your art tracks are housed on YouTube. Typically, they are titled 'Artist Name - Topic', where 'Artist Name' is your artist name. For example razz mattreezy - Topic.
A topic channel is automatically generated by YouTube, and can't be customized, nor does it have a log-in function to it.
https://www.emubands.com/faqs/what-is-a-topic-channel-on-youtube/#:~:text=A%20topic%20channel%20is%20where,log%2Din%20function%20to%20it

What is a Topic Channel on YouTube? - EmuBands

 

 

YouTube channel URL format

1. {*.youtube.com}/channel/{24-digit CaSe SeNsItive channel id}

2. {*.youtube.com}/c/{user's custom URL name}

3. {*.youtube.com}/{user's custom URL name}

4. {*.youtube.com}/{username}

⚠️ username in case 4 is different with user's custom URL name in case 2,3

 

💡Official answer from YouTube : https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6180214?hl=en

Understand your YouTube channel's URLs - YouTube Help

 

For example,

all these 3 urls below are URL linked to same channel, Vogue

https://www.youtube.com/vogue 
https://www.youtube.com/c/vogue 
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRXiA3h1no_PFkb1JCP0yMA 

 

This URL below is different URL linked to the channel, British Vogue

https://www.youtube.com/user/vogue