Find country of channel in youtube api v3

Question

In v2 of the youtube api, I could get the country of a channel by getting it\'s user information (https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/userId) and looking at the Locati

Answer 1

It appears V2 of the API has finally been shut down.

Has anyone managed to come up with a workaround for this since V3 of the API does not support it ?

I have read through the API docs and while there does appear to be fields available for this data (snippet.country) it doesn't seem to be populated in the vast majority of channels.

What I require is to find the general region (country) that the channel / Video is associated with. Nothing more fine grained than that.