YouTube Channel ID Finder
Paste a channel URL, an @handle, or even a link to one of the channel's videos. You get the UC… channel ID and the channel's public numbers.
Works with /@handle, /channel/UC…, old /c/ and /user/ links, and any video or Shorts URL.
Growing the channel behind that ID
Social proof is the reason this product exists: people subscribe to channels that already have subscribers. Non-drop, no password, delivery within the hour.
Why you would want a channel ID
The @handle you see on a channel page is a display name: the owner can change it, and it can be taken over by someone else once it is released. The UC… ID never changes for the life of the channel. Anything that has to keep pointing at the same channel over time uses the ID, not the handle.
You need it for the YouTube Data API, for RSS feeds (feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UC…), for most analytics and scheduling tools, for embedding a subscribe button, and for filing a copyright or impersonation report where a handle is not specific enough.
How to find it
- Open the channel on YouTube, or any of its videos.
- Copy the link from the address bar.
- Paste it above. The ID appears with a copy button next to it.
If you already have the @handle you can type just that, with or without the @. If a channel URL already looks like youtube.com/channel/UCxxxx, then the part after /channel/ is the ID and you do not need any tool at all.
Questions
What does a YouTube channel ID look like?
Always 24 characters, always starting with UC, made of letters, digits, hyphens and underscores. For example UCX6OQ3DkcsbYNE6H8uQQuVA. If what you have does not start with UC and is not exactly 24 characters, it is not a channel ID.
Why is the subscriber count rounded?
Because YouTube rounds it before publishing it. Since 2019 the public API returns subscriber counts to three significant figures, so a channel with 21.147.883 subscribers is reported as 21.100.000 to everyone, including us. The exact number is visible only to the channel owner in YouTube Studio.
Some channels show no subscriber count at all
The owner has chosen to hide it. When that is the case we say so rather than showing a zero, because zero and hidden are very different things.
Can I get the ID of a deleted or private channel?
No. If the channel is gone, YouTube returns nothing and so do we. Terminated channels keep their ID in old links, but there is nothing left to look up.
Do you store what I search for?
We cache the public data of the channels people look up, so a popular channel is answered without asking YouTube again. That cache holds channel data, not who asked for it. We do not build a profile of your searches.