Find a YouTube Video ID
Learn how you can find the video ID of a YouTube video.
How to find a video’s ID
Finding the video ID of a YouTube video is essential to fully utilize the YouTube Data API. Follow the steps below to find a video’s ID. For this demonstration, we’ll use a video from the Educative Sessions YouTube channel.
Step 1: Search for a video
Go to the YouTube website and search for a video that you like.
Step 2: Select the video
From the search results, select the video whose ID you want to find. Click it and move to the next page.
Step 3: Locating the video ID
On the video page, go to the video URL. The video ID will be the value after the v
parameter.
Copy this ID and use it anywhere you want in the course. Follow the same steps if you want to find the video ID of any other YouTube video.