Find Youtube Channel by Custom URL

Question

Recently I am trying to collect Youtube channel infos by urls. With Youtube API V3 youtube.channels.list, I can get channels by below two types of urls with no problem. https://www.youtube.com/user/LadyGagaVEVO/ (query by forUserName) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC07Kxew-cMIaykMOkzqHtBQ (query by id)

However for the custom url such as https://www.youtube.com/phunky I found no official way to get the channel. I know it is possible to get the channel by parsing OpenGraph meta-data. Still want to know if there is more ideal way with the V3 API.

Thanks

Answer 1

The only solution I've seen is from this answer which is to use the search api. It's not perfect but it is the only solution I've seen.