GIPHY's Channel Search

In this lesson, we'll be exploring GIPHY's channel search endpoint.

Channel search

If someone wants to be part of the GIPHY community by creating and adding content to GIPHY's library, they'll need to create a channel on GIPHY. The channel can be a type of community or brand. The community channel is public and anyone can create it without difficulty. However, the brand channel is created for any company, recording artist, actor, or public figure.

We can search the channels on the GIPHY network against the channel name as a search query. The channel search endpoint allows us to do that. It takes a required string parameter, q, and returns all the GIPHY channels matching the query term.