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The Youtube channel list brandingSettings is empty with the name forUsername but not id

Using Youtube Data API Channels: the list with the brandingSettings part works when using the id filter, but not the forUsername filter for me.

For example, GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels?part=brandingSettings&forUsername=h3h3Productions&key={YOUR_API_KEY} leads to the following, which is absent in brandSettings:

 { "kind": "youtube#channelListResponse", "etag": "\"0KG1mRN7bm3nResDPKHQZpg5-do/Qagk6ayL_umilQ398UZyAHwxK_g\"", "pageInfo": { "totalResults": 1, "resultsPerPage": 5 }, "items": [ { "kind": "youtube#channel", "etag": "\"0KG1mRN7bm3nResDPKHQZpg5-do/tTzKQvYs0Y2GpqN2wqgudxB2TnQ\"", "id": "UCDWIvJwLJsE4LG1Atne2blQ" } ] }

But GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels?part=brandingSettings&id=UCDWIvJwLJsE4LG1Atne2blQ&key={YOUR_API_KEY} (which you notice uses the same user ID), leaves it intact:

 { "kind": "youtube#channelListResponse", "etag": "\"0KG1mRN7bm3nResDPKHQZpg5-do/2ZOHdezDOZFRR9xisREY04R4OOg\"", "pageInfo": { "totalResults": 1, "resultsPerPage": 1 }, "items": [ { "kind": "youtube#channel", "etag": "\"0KG1mRN7bm3nResDPKHQZpg5-do/58_5G5_Hi-64MiC8m5NC76sDIOA\"", "id": "UCDWIvJwLJsE4LG1Atne2blQ", "brandingSettings": { "channel": { "title": "h3h3Productions", "description": "Wacky, zany, goofy comedy. ", "keywords": "comedy humor satire parody funny sketch \"sketch comedy\" reaction \"reaction video\" review h3h3 h3h3productions", "showRelatedChannels": true, "showBrowseView": true, "featuredChannelsTitle": "SECOND CHANNEL", "featuredChannelsUrls": [ "UC7pp40MU_6rLK5pvJYG3d0Q" ], "unsubscribedTrailer": "tVaAv0cPRok", "profileColor": "#000000", "country": "US" }, "image": { "bannerImageUrl": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/-DFbgqVWqgm8/VDV_M-xkJtI/AAAAAAAAAOE/zQeoRrTR-qA/w1060-fcrop64=1,00005a57ffffa5a8-nd/youtube%2Bnew%2Bbanner14.jpg", "bannerMobileImageUrl": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/-DFbgqVWqgm8/VDV_M-xkJtI/AAAAAAAAAOE/zQeoRrTR-qA/w640-fcrop64=1,32b75a57cd48a5a8-nd/youtube%2Bnew%2Bbanner14.jpg", "bannerTabletLowImageUrl": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/-DFbgqVWqgm8/VDV_M-xkJtI/AAAAAAAAAOE/zQeoRrTR-qA/w1138-fcrop64=1,00005a57ffffa5a8-nd/youtube%2Bnew%2Bbanner14.jpg", "bannerTabletImageUrl": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/-DFbgqVWqgm8/VDV_M-xkJtI/AAAAAAAAAOE/zQeoRrTR-qA/w1707-fcrop64=1,00005a57ffffa5a8-nd/youtube%2Bnew%2Bbanner14.jpg", "bannerTabletHdImageUrl": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/-DFbgqVWqgm8/VDV_M-xkJtI/AAAAAAAAAOE/zQeoRrTR-qA/w2276-fcrop64=1,00005a57ffffa5a8-nd/youtube%2Bnew%2Bbanner14.jpg", "bannerTabletExtraHdImageUrl": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/-DFbgqVWqgm8/VDV_M-xkJtI/AAAAAAAAAOE/zQeoRrTR-qA/w2560-fcrop64=1,00005a57ffffa5a8-nd/youtube%2Bnew%2Bbanner14.jpg", "bannerMobileLowImageUrl": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/-DFbgqVWqgm8/VDV_M-xkJtI/AAAAAAAAAOE/zQeoRrTR-qA/w320-fcrop64=1,32b75a57cd48a5a8-nd/youtube%2Bnew%2Bbanner14.jpg", "bannerMobileMediumHdImageUrl": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/-DFbgqVWqgm8/VDV_M-xkJtI/AAAAAAAAAOE/zQeoRrTR-qA/w960-fcrop64=1,32b75a57cd48a5a8-nd/youtube%2Bnew%2Bbanner14.jpg", "bannerMobileHdImageUrl": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/-DFbgqVWqgm8/VDV_M-xkJtI/AAAAAAAAAOE/zQeoRrTR-qA/w1280-fcrop64=1,32b75a57cd48a5a8-nd/youtube%2Bnew%2Bbanner14.jpg", "bannerMobileExtraHdImageUrl": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/-DFbgqVWqgm8/VDV_M-xkJtI/AAAAAAAAAOE/zQeoRrTR-qA/w1440-fcrop64=1,32b75a57cd48a5a8-nd/youtube%2Bnew%2Bbanner14.jpg", "bannerTvImageUrl": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/-DFbgqVWqgm8/VDV_M-xkJtI/AAAAAAAAAOE/zQeoRrTR-qA/w2120-fcrop64=1,00000000ffffffff-nd/youtube%2Bnew%2Bbanner14.jpg", "bannerTvLowImageUrl": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/-DFbgqVWqgm8/VDV_M-xkJtI/AAAAAAAAAOE/zQeoRrTR-qA/w854-fcrop64=1,00000000ffffffff-nd/youtube%2Bnew%2Bbanner14.jpg", "bannerTvMediumImageUrl": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/-DFbgqVWqgm8/VDV_M-xkJtI/AAAAAAAAAOE/zQeoRrTR-qA/w1280-fcrop64=1,00000000ffffffff-nd/youtube%2Bnew%2Bbanner14.jpg", "bannerTvHighImageUrl": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/-DFbgqVWqgm8/VDV_M-xkJtI/AAAAAAAAAOE/zQeoRrTR-qA/w1920-fcrop64=1,00000000ffffffff-nd/youtube%2Bnew%2Bbanner14.jpg" }, "hints": [ { "property": "channel.banner.mobile.medium.image.url", "value": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/-DFbgqVWqgm8/VDV_M-xkJtI/AAAAAAAAAOE/zQeoRrTR-qA/w640-fcrop64=1,32b75a57cd48a5a8-nd/youtube%2Bnew%2Bbanner14.jpg" }, { "property": "channel.banner.image_height.int", "value": "0" }, { "property": "channel.featured_tab.template.string", "value": "Everything" }, { "property": "channel.modules.show_comments.bool", "value": "True" } ] } } ] }

Am I doing something wrong? Keeping it all the same, but switching the part to snippet or statistics works the way you would expect in both cases. I also tried this on several channels and got the same results.

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I think it works as intended. See the YouTube API. No channel branding settings are returned for queries by username . Tl; dr: despite the fact that you can search for channels using your usernames, the migration from V2 carries the fact that not every YouTube channel has a unique username, so it works correctly when you use the channel identifier (which is unique) . I also tried this by specifying forMine instead of the channel id, and it worked as expected.

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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/1234638/

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