YouTube Channel ID Scrape From URL's

Themanhere

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Dec 14, 2012

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• Apr 15, 2016

• #1

Does anybody know of a tool or method to scrape the channel Ids from a bunch of URLs?

So I can just paste a load of URLs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXXXX
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXXXX
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXXXX

Then get the channel Ids for each?

https://www.youtube.com/channel/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
https://www.youtube.com/channel/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
https://www.youtube.com/channel/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Cheers

 

Cyberars

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• Apr 24, 2016

• #2

you could use youtube API for that task

 

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appledislikes

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• Apr 24, 2016

• #3

Cyberars said:

you could use youtube API for that task

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Yes that is how you do it.

 

Themanhere

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• Apr 25, 2016
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• #4

Thanks for the replies, but wasn't really looking to start learning / playing around with YouTube's API. Was looking for an existing site, bot or method to get the channel ID from URL.

May just end up making a simple Imacro script to click on the video username and copy the channel URL.

 

Themanhere

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• Apr 27, 2016
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• #5

OK had a think and created a custom data grabber with Scrapebox. If anybody has SB and wants a simple way to extract the channel ID's from alot of YouTube videos, post your replies here. If there's much interest i'll upload the file and provide instructions etc.