This is the current list of YouTube video category IDs:
| 1 | Film & Animation |
| 2 | Autos & Vehicles |
| 10 | Music |
| 15 | Pets & Animals |
| 17 | Sports |
| 18 | Short Movies |
| 19 | Travel & Events |
| 20 | Gaming |
| 21 | Videoblogging |
| 22 | People & Blogs |
| 23 | Comedy |
| 24 | Entertainment |
| 25 | News & Politics |
| 26 | Howto & Style |
| 27 | Education |
| 28 | Science & Technology |
| 29 | Nonprofits & Activism |
| 30 | Movies |
| 31 | Anime/Animation |
| 32 | Action/Adventure |
| 33 | Classics |
| 34 | Comedy |
| 35 | Documentary |
| 36 | Drama |
| 37 | Family |
| 38 | Foreign |
| 39 | Horror |
| 40 | Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
| 41 | Thriller |
| 42 | Shorts |
| 43 | Shows |
| 44 | Trailers |
How to retrieve YouTube video category IDs?
- Source: To get YouTube video category IDs, run an API request to the YouTube Data API, with a request URL of
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videoCategories?part=snippet®ionCode=US. Substitute in theregionCodeof interest. - Documentation: https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/videoCategories/list
Hello Ana,
Nice blog!
Is it possible to get the list of YouTube channels for a specific Category ID?
For instance, Gaming, 20, I need the list of all channels. Is it possible?
I don't think you can do this because this list categorizes videos, not channels. You could make a request like
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=snippet&type=video&maxResults=25&videoCategoryId=20but that would just return all the videos with a gaming category, not the channels. There used to be a categoryId for channels, too, but this page says it's been deprecated.I am not sure why but category 27 which I want is alone not working. Does anybody know why?
It could be related to the region, as not all regions have all categories available. However I tested category 27 (Education) for a few regions, and it was available in all of them. Which region are you fetching data for?