Manage Channel Subscriptions

Overview

This lesson covers subscriptions and subscribers of a channel. We'll perform the following operations:

• Check if a user has subscribed to a channel.
• Make a user subscribe to a specific channel.
• Get all the subscribers of a channel.
• Make a user unsubscribe from a specific channel.

We’ll use the two endpoints below to achieve these tasks:

• We’ll use the {base_url}/users/{user_id}/channels/{channel_id} endpoint to check, subscribe, and unsubscribe from a channel.
• We’ll use the {base_url}/channels/{channel_id}/users endpoint to get all subscribers of a channel.

Check if a user has subscribed to a channel

In this section, we'll see how to check the subscription status of a specific user for a specific channel. We’ll use the {base_url}/users/{user_id}/channels/{channel_id} endpoint to check the subscription of any Vimeo user for a channel. We'll also check if we are subscribing to a channel.

Test the subscription of channels and users

We have some channel names with their respective owner (user ID) in the table below. More details about channels in a category and their information is found in this lesson. We can use these values to check the functionality of this endpoint.