Retrieve your Channel ID
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You can use the following form to retrieve your channel ID or another channel's
ID.
To retrieve your own channel ID, authorize the request by setting the
Authorize requests using OAuth 2.0 button at the top of the form to ON.
Then send the request by clicking the blue button at the bottom of the form.
To retrieve the channel ID for any channel that has a YouTube channel name,
set the forUsername property in the form to the channel name and the mine
property to false.
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