Find a YouTube Video ID
Understand how to find the unique video ID on YouTube, a crucial step for working with the YouTube Data API. Learn to search for any video, select it, and identify its video ID from the URL to use in API requests.
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How to find a video’s ID
Finding the video ID of a YouTube video is essential to fully utilize the YouTube Data API. Follow the steps below to find a video’s ID. For this demonstration, we’ll use a video from the Educative Sessions YouTube channel.
Step 1: Searching for a video
Go to the YouTube website and search for any video.
Step 2: Selecting the video
From the search results, select the video whose ID you want to find. Click it and move to the next page.
Step 3: Locating the video ID
On the video page, go to the video URL. The video ID will be the value after the v parameter.
Copy this ID and use it anywhere you want in the course. Follow the same steps if you want to find the video ID of any other YouTube video.