Channels
Learn about the channel resource and how to use it to get information about a YouTube channel.
What is a channel resource?
The channel resource contains information about a YouTube channel, such as the number of subscribers, view count, video count, channel name, and description.
Supported methods
The API supports the list and update methods for this resource. The list method returns the channel resources matching the request criteria using the channel ID or username. It also allows retrieval of channel data of the user authorizing the API request. The update method updates a channel’s metadata. For this lesson, we’ll take a look at the list method only.
Let’s use the list method to ...