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cmwright
cmwright

Reputation: 3426

How to get current user's profile information in YouTube Data API v3

In V2 you could hit the /api/users/default path to get infomation such as the user's username. This is documented here: https://developers.google.com/youtube/2.0/developers_guide_protocol_profiles

In our migration to V3 I also need to be able to pull the users username, but can't find any documentation showing how to do so. Is this functionality replicated in V3, or is there another way to accomplish this task?

Thanks!

Upvotes: 12

Views: 27608

Answers (2)

MyounghoonKim
MyounghoonKim

Reputation: 1090

Youtube API v3 does not support user information any more. Use userinfo API.

set scope: https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.force-ssl https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.profile (a space between scopes)

and get: https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v1/userinfo?access_token={access_token}

Upvotes: 5

Ibrahim Ulukaya
Ibrahim Ulukaya

Reputation: 12877

In v3, user info is basically channel info. By doing a channels->list "https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/channels/list", you will get the information under 'snippet.channelId' "https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/channels#snippet.channelId"

Upvotes: 14

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