Get Channel Subscriptions and Playlists

From channel id get it’s subscriptions and playlists if publicly available.

GetChannelSubscribtionsAsync(string channelId) returns IEnumerable<string> ChannelIds //at minimum maybe there would be more info available

GetChannelPlaylistsAsync(string channelId) returns IEnumerable<string> PlaylistIds //at minimum maybe there would be more info available

Or maybe it is possible to get everything through GetChannelInfoAsync(string channelId)?

I haven’t looked on how to do this. Worst case scenario would be to parse/scrape channel page.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/{channelId}/channels https://www.youtube.com/channel/{channelId}/playlists

[Zyano]

I was wondering if this could be done without the API and it does appear to be possible and even relatively simple as well.

Youtube embeds a JSON object into the source of the playlist page which is then processed by polymer (the JS frontend) in order to show content.

Here is a gist from the information from the following page: https://www.youtube.com/user/LinusTechTips/playlists https://gist.github.com/Zyano/857e5a4ad8df73e41b63aad6a71277b5

The section in the gist is layered in the HTML like this.

<script > window["ytInitialData"] = JSON SNIPPET/GIST GOES HERE window["ytInitialPlayerResponse"] = (null); if (window.ytcsi) {window.ytcsi.tick("pdr", null, '');} </script>

It should be possible to parse this information to get the desired result.

[Zyano]

I will go ahead and clean it up and submit a PR then we can have an easier discussion about the changes to see if it’s the right fit.