For research purposes I aim to retrieve the subscriptions of a number of YouTube channels, using the YouTube Data API. However, I am getting the error that I do not have the rights to see these subscriptions. Is there a way to get the required rights to see these subscriptions, and if so how?
Until now I've done some requests via Python to retrieve subscriptions of a channel. I have tried the code which is provided by the YouTube API tutorial itself, or a few wrappers. However for all I basically got the same message that I am not allowed to access this information.
Thanks in advance!
In https://www.youtube.com/account_privacy people can keep all their subscriptions private which is the case by default (it's the case of UCJ-pWgHZbdHV-mX8qcZc4nQ for instance). So for clear privacy reasons, you won't be able to retrieve their subscriptions.
However for some channels that switched this toggle, such as UCv_LqFI-0vMVYgNR3TeB3zQ, their subscriptions are public and can be retrieved with YouTube Data API v3 Subscriptions: list endpoint with the channelId filter.