How do you get a Youtube Channel's links (website) from the youtube/v3/channels API?

Question

Looking at the doc:

https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/channels/list

I don't see any part to request to get the links or websites of a channel. If you go to any channel "About" page on their normal site outside the API it lists the channel's external websites in a section called "links".

Is there a way to request that google add this?

Answer 1

One more time YouTube Data API v3 doesn't provide a basic feature.

I would recommend you to try out my open-source YouTube operational API. Indeed by fetching https://yt.lemnoslife.com/channels?part=about&id=CHANNEL_ID you will retrieve the links of the About section of the given YouTube channel in item["links"].

Example of YouTube channel (UC9-y-6csu5WGm29I7JiwpnA) having such website URLs in its About tab. My API would return for it:

{
    "kind": "youtube#channelListResponse",
    "etag": "NotImplemented",
    "items": [
        {
            "kind": "youtube#channel",
            "etag": "NotImplemented",
            "id": "UC9-y-6csu5WGm29I7JiwpnA",
            "countryChannelId": "UC9-y-6csu5WGm29I7JiwpnA",
            "about": {
                "stats": {
                    "joinedDate": 1239321600,
                    "viewCount": 201152616,
                    "subscriberCount": 2320000
                },
                "description": "Videos all about computers and computer stuff. Sister channel of Numberphile.",
                "title": "Computerphile",
                "details": {
                    "location": null
                },
                "links": [
                    {
                        "url": "http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/computerphile",
                        "title": "Facebook"
                    },
                    {
                        "url": "https:\/\/twitter.com\/computer_phile",
                        "title": "Twitter"
                    }
                ],
                "handle": "@Computerphile"
            }
        }
    ]
}