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This feature request
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pa...@google.com <pa...@google.com> #3
This issue has already been raised to our internal teams. There's no ETA I can give though so I'll be closing this issue for now.
Description
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There is currently no way to query for the value in a custom channel url. It would be very useful if there was an additional parameter something like
forCustom
that would work the same way asforUsername
but using the custom channel value instead.As described in this StackOverflow answer , the workaround by using
search.list
is unreliable as the results do not come back in the same order every time or do not come back at all. The alternative by grabbing the source for the channel page in a GET request does not work in javascript ajax due to CORS and is also likely against ToS if done server side to circumvent CORS.As described in this Support Answer , the username link is legacy and depends on when the channel was created. Based on the description, it sounds like Custom URLs are going to be much more common going forward but currently there is no reasonable way to query for them.
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