Getting YouTube channel profile picture with channelId

Question

So I\'m trying to get the channel profile picture for a YouTube channel by using the channelId.

I would like to do it simply by adding the channelId to a URL and get the

Answer 1

You can use channels->list request for that.

In response you will get snippet.thumbnails."default".url for that

For authenticated user's channel:

GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels?part=snippet&mine=true&fields=items%2Fsnippet%2Fthumbnails&key={YOUR_API_KEY}

Or for any channel ID:

GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels?part=snippet&id+CHANNEL_ID&fields=items%2Fsnippet%2Fthumbnails&key={YOUR_API_KEY}