Is there a field for knowing if the youtube channel is verified from the Youtube API?

Question

I am using the Youtube data API and I needed to know if there is any way of finding that the youtube channel is a Verified one.

Answer 1

just ran into this today, and while the channelBranding of the V3 youtube API looks promising, I couldn't get it to return if the account/channel user id was verified or not

so I threw up a pretty lame php script that uses DOM model searching to examine the html directly. to return true if the following element is present.

As of today (9/8/2014) a verified user will return true..

looking at $url "; 

    $ch = curl_init();
    $timeout = 10;
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "$url");
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
    $html = curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);

    $dom = new DOMDocument;
    @$dom->loadHTML($html);

    foreach ( $dom->getElementsByTagName('a') as $link ) {
        $myVar = $link->getAttribute('class');
        $search = "qualified-channel-title-badge";
        $found=false;
        $found = strpos($myVar, $search); 
        if ( $found  !== false) { 
            $Verified = true;  //echo "
TRUE";
        } else {
            $Verified = false; //echo "
FALSE";
        }
    } 

    if ( $Verified ) {
    return true;
    } else {
    return false;
    }
}
?>

Bye for now!