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Hurt Hamster answered on October 18, 2021 Popularity 10/10 Helpfulness 2/10

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function getYouTubeXMLUrl( $url, $return_id_only = false ) {

    $xml_youtube_url_base = 'https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml';
    $preg_entities        = [
        'channel_id'  => '\/channel\/(([^\/])+?)$', //match YouTube channel ID from url
        'user'        => '\/user\/(([^\/])+?)$', //match YouTube user from url
        'playlist_id' => '\/playlist\?list=(([^\/])+?)$',  //match YouTube playlist ID from url
    ];


    foreach ( $preg_entities as $key => $preg_entity ) {
        if ( preg_match( '/' . $preg_entity . '/', $url, $matches ) ) {
            if ( isset( $matches[1] ) ) {
                if($return_id_only === false){
                    return $xml_youtube_url_base . '?' . $key . '=' . $matches[1];
                }else{
                    return [
                        'type' => $key,
                        'id' => $matches[1],
                    ];
                }

            }
        }
    }

}

$url     = 'https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBLAoqCQyz6a0OvwXWzKZag';
$xml_url = getYouTubeXMLUrl($url);

echo $xml_url; //outputs https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCBLAoqCQyz6a0OvwXWzKZag

$entity_id_array =  getYouTubeXMLUrl($url, true);

print_r($entity_id_array); // outputs Array ( [type] => channel_id [id] => UCBLAoqCQyz6a0OvwXWzKZag );

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Contributed on Oct 18 2021

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// Console code
ytInitialData.metadata.channelMetadataRenderer.externalId

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Contributed on Dec 28 2021

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Go to "About" Tab > "Stats" > Click "Share" > Click "Copy Channel ID"

https://stackoverflow.com/a/76285153/4861760

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