Property talk:P2397

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YouTube channel ID
ID of the YouTube channel of a person or organisation (not to be confused with the name of the channel) The ID can also be used for music.youtube.com IDs

Represents	YouTube channel (Q17558136)
Applicable "stated in" value	YouTube (Q866)
Has quality	case sensitive (Q257869)
Data type	External identifier
Corresponding template	Template:YouTube channel (Q26058719), Template:YouTube Channel Link (Q26139290)
Domain	According to this template: human (Q5), organization (Q43229) According to statements in the property: transport service itinerary (Q1067164), human (Q5), organization (Q43229), group of humans (Q16334295), database (Q8513), work (Q386724), occurrence (Q1190554), position (Q4164871), YouTube channel (Q17558136), award (Q618779), television channel (Q2001305), fictional character (Q95074), podcast (Q24634210), social media account (Q102345381), zoo (Q43501), theatre building (Q24354), brand (Q431289), public aquarium (Q2281788), church building (Q16970), concert hall (Q1060829), media (Q340169), influencer (Q2906862), facility (Q13226383), group (Q16887380), service (Q7406919), administrative territorial entity (Q56061), group of fictional characters (Q14514600) or VTuber (Q55155641) When possible, data should only be stored as statements
Allowed values	UC[-_0-9A-Za-z]{21}[AQgw] (base64 hashed/salted serial identifier; different from human-readable username)
Usage notes	To obtain the URL, open the HTML source of the channel page and search for the <link rel="canonical"> tag. The human-readable username can be added as a "YouTube handle" (P11245) qualifier, and the title of the channel can be provided with the "object named as" (P1932) qualifier.
Example	Jimmy Wales (Q181) → UCEbFsO2sM_wjTn44YAgSrrg Marcus & Martinus (Q6757975) → UCkQfpYN8f6iuNTZkATOqVaQ UCRUmSbfoolI9b8iRyrGqFUw Basshunter (Q383541) → UCXUCegBr2GL7mo6O1l-xvVw UCmm1ImM6ZlyYk5rUbbEdM3w UCKT4B4C8QAnZV5NpvmykcLA UCXgtKN-w_WZvMPfqOWy_BsQ Spinnin' Records (Q2310883) → UCpDJl2EmP7Oh90Vylx0dZtA Danish Red Cross (Q12307527) → UCGSDJNCcQNsLJKP6PhF8kvg
Source	https://youtube.com https://www.youtube.com/gaming/games https://commentpicker.com/youtube-channel-id.php
Formatter URL	https://www.youtube.com/channel/$1 https://www.youtubekids.com/channel/$1 https://music.youtube.com/channel/$1 https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=$1
Tracking: usage	Category:Pages using Wikidata property P2397 (Q29072242)
Related to country	United States of America (Q30) (See 762 others)
See also	YouTube video ID (P1651), YouTube playlist ID (P4300), Twitch channel ID (P5797), multi-channel network (P6540), Periscope ID (P6654), YouTube handle (P11245)
Lists	list of most-subscribed YouTube channels. (Q15995322) list of most-subscribed YouTube Music artists (Q60518794) Items with the most statements of this property Count of items by number of statements (chart) Items with the most statements Items with the fewest statements Count of items by number of sitelinks (chart) Items with the most sitelinks Items with the most sitelinks, but no link to one Wikipedia (sample: Welsh Wikipedia, cywiki) Items with the fewest sitelinks Most linked wikis Items with the most identifier properties Items with no other external identifier Items with no other statements Most recently created items Items with novalue claims Items with unknown value claims Usage history (total) Usage history (main statement) Chart by item creation date Map of people by place values: place of birth educated at work location residence place of death place of burial January 1st dates People with date of birth on January 1 People with date of death on January 1 People with both dates on January 1 Mix'n'match (Report) Database reports/Constraint violations/P2397 Map Random list
Proposal discussion	Proposal discussion
Current uses	Total 231,460 Main statement 103,153 44.6% of uses Qualifier 127,379 55% of uses Reference 928 0.4% of uses
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Explanations [Edit]

For a page like https://www.youtube.com/user/LuciaGilVEVO, view the page source, where you will find a header:

<meta itemprop="channelId" content="UCb9ThkmYIUXyHb5pJiTyn1w">

From this, extract the channel ID, UCb9ThkmYIUXyHb5pJiTyn1w.

Alternatively, Click the “About” tab, then click the share button and select “Copy channel ID”.

Twice a day Mbchbot will check for incorrect values and replace them where possible.

Format “UC[-_0-9A-Za-z]{21}[AQgw]”: value must be formatted using this pattern (PCRE syntax). (Help)

List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P2397#Format, hourly updated report, SPARQL

Conflicts with “website account on (P553): YouTube (Q866), YouTube Premium (Q18643737), YouTube Kids (Q30637282), YouTube Android app (Q41697543), YouTube TV (Q53720737), YouTube Gaming (Q55020669), YouTube iOS app (Q71060554)”: this property must not be used with the listed properties and values. (Help)

List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P2397#Conflicts with P553, hourly updated report, SPARQL

Distinct values: this property likely contains a value that is different from all other items. (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303). Known exceptions: Google Maps (Q12013), Google Maps (Q4558504), Alexei Navalny (Q155979), Navalny LIVE (Q70361107), Kameto (Q106113840), Kotei (Q108732400), MrBeast (Q111753969), MrBeast (Q57618112), Yuiri Murayama (Q5360101), Nana Okada (Q15900282), Shinobu Mogi (Q16725696), Mion Mukaichi (Q11415882)
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P2397#Unique value, SPARQL (every item), SPARQL (by value)

Type “transport service itinerary (Q1067164), human (Q5), organization (Q43229), group of humans (Q16334295), database (Q8513), work (Q386724), occurrence (Q1190554), position (Q4164871), YouTube channel (Q17558136), award (Q618779), television channel (Q2001305), fictional character (Q95074), podcast (Q24634210), social media account (Q102345381), zoo (Q43501), theatre building (Q24354), brand (Q431289), public aquarium (Q2281788), church building (Q16970), concert hall (Q1060829), media (Q340169), influencer (Q2906862), facility (Q13226383), group (Q16887380), service (Q7406919), administrative territorial entity (Q56061), group of fictional characters (Q14514600), VTuber (Q55155641)”: item must contain property “instance of (P31)” with classes “transport service itinerary (Q1067164), human (Q5), organization (Q43229), group of humans (Q16334295), database (Q8513), work (Q386724), occurrence (Q1190554), position (Q4164871), YouTube channel (Q17558136), award (Q618779), television channel (Q2001305), fictional character (Q95074), podcast (Q24634210), social media account (Q102345381), zoo (Q43501), theatre building (Q24354), brand (Q431289), public aquarium (Q2281788), church building (Q16970), concert hall (Q1060829), media (Q340169), influencer (Q2906862), facility (Q13226383), group (Q16887380), service (Q7406919), administrative territorial entity (Q56061), group of fictional characters (Q14514600), VTuber (Q55155641)” or their subclasses (defined using subclass of (P279)). (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303). Known exceptions: Individual Number (Q18658883)
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P2397#Type Q1067164, Q5, Q43229, Q16334295, Q8513, Q386724, Q1190554, Q4164871, Q17558136, Q618779, Q2001305, Q95074, Q24634210, Q102345381, Q43501, Q24354, Q431289, Q2281788, Q16970, Q1060829, Q340169, Q2906862, Q13226383, Q16887380, Q7406919, Q56061, Q14514600, Q55155641, SPARQL

Conflicts with “instance of (P31): Wikimedia disambiguation page (Q4167410), Wikimedia category (Q4167836), Wikimedia duplicated page (Q17362920), Wikimedia permanent duplicate item (Q21286738)”: this property must not be used with the listed properties and values. (Help)

List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P2397#Conflicts with P31, hourly updated report, SPARQL

Qualifiers “YouTube handle (P11245), website username or ID (P554), language of work or name (P407), start time (P580), end time (P582), end cause (P1534), has characteristic (P1552), does not have characteristic (P6477), number of subscribers (P3744), number of viewers/listeners (P5436), number of works (P3740), archive URL (P1065), archive date (P2960), point in time (P585), subject has role (P2868), subject named as (P1810), object has role (P3831), object named as (P1932), named after (P138), statement is subject of (P805), sourcing circumstances (P1480), earliest date (P1319), latest start date (P8555), earliest end date (P8554), latest date (P1326), social media followers (P8687), main subject (P921), together with (P1706), URL (P2699), applies to jurisdiction (P1001), identifier shared with (P4070), reason for deprecated rank (P2241), reason for preferred rank (P7452), last update (P5017)”: this property should be used only with the listed qualifiers. (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P2397#allowed qualifiers, SPARQL

Scope is as main value (Q54828448), as reference (Q54828450), as qualifier (Q54828449): the property must be used by specified way only (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P2397#Scope, SPARQL

Allowed entity types are Wikibase item (Q29934200): the property may only be used on a certain entity type (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P2397#Entity types

This property is being used by: w:el:Πρότυπο:Κουτί πληροφοριών ποδοσφαιρικού συλλόγου el:Πρότυπο:Κουτί πληροφοριών Ομοσπονδίας Ποδοσφαίρου, el:Πρότυπο:Κουτί πληροφοριών πετοσφαιρικής ομάδας, el:Πρότυπο:Διοικητική Διαίρεση (Κύπρος), el:Πρότυπο:Κουτί πληροφοριών συλλόγου χειροσφαίρισης, el:Πρότυπο:Κουτί πληροφοριών εθνικής ποδοσφαιρικής ομάδας, el:Πρότυπο:Κουτί πληροφοριών ποδοσφαιρικού συλλόγου, el:Πρότυπο:Κουτί πληροφοριών ποδοσφαιρικού συλλόγουtest, el:Πρότυπο:Κουτί πληροφοριών περιοδικού, el:Πρότυπο:Πληροφορίες προσώπου, el:Πρότυπο:Πόλη (Γαλλία), el:Πρότυπο:Πληροφορίες εφημερίδας, el:Πρότυπο:Πληροφορίες ραδιοφωνικού σταθμού, el:Πρότυπο:Κουτί πληροφοριών συλλόγου καλαθοσφαίρισης, el:Πρότυπο:Τοπική ένωση καλαθοσφαίρισης, el:Πρότυπο:Κουτί πληροφοριών αθλητικού σωματείου sr:Шаблон:YouTube, sr:Шаблон:YouTube-lat uk:Шаблон:У соціальних мережах he:תבנית:פעיל ניו מדיה, he:תבנית:פרופילי מוזיקאים, he:תבנית:פרופילי שחקנים, he:תבנית:פרופילים ברשתות חברתיות ca:Plantilla:Infotaula de programari, ca:Plantilla:Infotaula de publicacions periòdiques, ca:Plantilla:Infotaula lloc web, ca:Plantilla:Infotaula d'organització, ca:Plantilla:Infotaula sèrie de televisió, ca:Plantilla:Xarxes, ca:Plantilla:Infotaula de programari/prova, ca:Plantilla:Xarxes/icones, ca:Plantilla:Identificadors, ca:Plantilla:Identificadors/icones, ca:Plantilla:Infotaula publicació periòdica ms:Templat:YouTube, ms:Templat:YouTube channel da:Skabelon:Infoboks skuespiller n:ru:Шаблон:Оформление категории ast:Plantía:Ficha de software, ast:Plantía:YouTube, ast:Plantía:Enllaces banda eu:Txantiloi:Aldizkari infotaula, eu:Txantiloi:Biografia infotaula automatikoa id:Templat:Xarxes b:ru:Шаблон:Оформление категории n:bg:Шаблон:Оформяне на категория kab:Talɣa:Infobox website ko:틀:유튜브 채널, ko:틀:유튜브 사용자 eo:Ŝablono:YouTube cs:Šablona:YouTube vec:Modèl:Infobox canałe TV, vec:Modèl:Identifegadori, vec:Modèl:Wikidata Social, vec:Modeło:Identifegadori, vec:Modeło:Infobox de Produsion audioviziva de:Vorlage:Infobox Webvideoproduzent incubator:Template:Wn/tg/Ороиши гурӯҳ nds:Vörlaag:Infobox Webvideoproduzent zh:Template:YouTube, zh:Template:Youtube WD zh-yue:Template:人物拎, zh-yue:Template:社交媒體模 jv:Cithakan:Xarxes ga:Teimpléad:WD Bosca Sonraí Nuachtán, ga:Teimpléad:WD Bosca Sonraí Sraith Teilifíse hak:模板:Ngoi-phu lièn-kiet sv:Mall:Youtube min:Templat:Xarxes yue:Template:人物拎, yue:Template:社交媒體模 n:eo:Ŝablono:Temkategorio 2 Please notify projects that use this property before big changes (renaming, deletion, merge with another property, etc.)

Pattern ^(?:https:\/\/(?:www\.)?youtube\.com\/)?@([A-Za-z0-9_\-\.]{3,30})$ will be automatically replaced to \1 and moved to YouTube handle (P11245) property. Testing: TODO list

Type constraint

The type constraint has a lot of violations because almost anything can have a YouTube channel. Should we add all current violations to the list of classes or should we just remove the constraint (which I think is the best solution). Mbch331 (talk) 06:46, 15 May 2016 (UTC)

The problem is the batshit way Wikidatans want to treat items. Let's take Splatoon which has 4 trailers attached, ideally each should be its own Wikidata item with new subtype video game trailer (a cousin of Q622550). But that creates "too many items", Wikidata is only a simulacrum Wikipedia for language links (before even considering ports). Another issue I've been tackling is type television station only meant for terrestrial, there is no general type for terrestrial, cable, and subscription stations and current the subclassing is wrong. Dispenser (talk) 11:27, 15 May 2016 (UTC)

Whoops, I thought this was YouTube video ID (P1651). Dispenser (talk) 11:37, 15 May 2016 (UTC)

It should be nouns (Person/Place/Thing) not adjectives or verbs. Not sure how exactly to widen it to that. Dispenser (talk) 03:22, 16 May 2016 (UTC)

That will be a problem. Something isn't defined as a noun, since this isn't a dictionary. You would first have to create a property to state if something is a noun or not, than it needs to be added to all statements that are a noun and then this check could change. Since that's something that's hardly going to work, I suggest to skip that check and just remove this constraint since it isn't working and can't be made to work. Mbch331 (talk) 08:18, 30 July 2016 (UTC)

I've just removed the constraint as the list is so long now it gives LUA errors. Mbch331 (talk) 06:05, 6 August 2016 (UTC)

Not channel but playlist?

&list=PLA33F68D62134F189

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqsgEPjYQJU
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqsgEPjYQJU&list=PLA33F68D62134F189 - this is actual list of series, but I'm not sure how to link with from Wikidata. d1g (talk) 01:33, 13 January 2017 (UTC)

You should probably request a new property for that. Mbch331 (talk) 18:29, 6 May 2017 (UTC)

The Link

Hello.The Link connects to "channel" but there is also "user" (example - the correct), is there a solution for this?Thank you ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2 (talk) 08:00, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

Information that gets stored in this property that isn't a channel should be deleted. We we want to have a Youtube User ID that would need its own proposal. ChristianKl (talk) 10:40, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for replying.Since they are doing the same and instead of Re-suggestion the same proposal with a new link, Is it possible to create the new property directly based on the original proposal?Thank you ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2 (talk) 13:23, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

No this isn't possible. The outcome of the original proposal is this property. A new property needs a new discussion, since it's based on a different outcome. Mbch331 (talk) 05:01, 13 October 2017 (UTC)

@ChristianKl: Any incorrect data will either be corrected to a channel id automatically twice a day (by my bot) or if not possible the information will be deleted. Mbch331 (talk) 05:03, 13 October 2017 (UTC)

@ChristianKl: As I said, the property is the same (not) but with a new link, what's the problem?

This property was not created for storing any information information about Youtube usernames and thus you actually need to ask for a property that stores Youtube usernames. ChristianKl (talk) 13:05, 13 October 2017 (UTC)

@ChristianKl: In YouTube, there is no difference between users and channels: the two are the same (details 1 2).Based on this, please create a new property as another copy of the original.Thank you ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2 (talk) 16:41, 13 October 2017 (UTC)

If there would be a 1-on-1 mapping between both there's an argument that there's no need to store user data in a separate property and not an argument that an additional argument can be created without a proposal. In addition your link doesn't show that every user has a channel. ChristianKl (talk) 16:45, 13 October 2017 (UTC)

Tool to get channel ID from a username

I found a tool that can take a YouTube username and (though some API calls) give you back the channel ID.

https://johnnythetank.github.io/youtube-channel-name-converter/  – The preceding unsigned comment was added by William Graham (talk • contribs) at 3 feb 2018 22:28‎ (UTC).

You can use that tool, or just enter the username and have my bot do the work for you. Mbch331 (talk) 22:36, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

I've just tested a similar tool^[1] for Q234750 (from user SUZIQUATROOFFICIAL to channel UCutQebYflgcV6kCiNKKtbxg), because I didn't know your support bot. All those "possible vandalism" tags tend to make me nervous, but presumably the YT user URL is unsuited as a referenve URL for the corresponding channel ID. OTOH I dislike statements without any reference at all. –84.46.52.175 05:36, 16 December 2018 (UTC)

The link above no longer works, but there are other sites that will convert a user URL into a channel URL: https://commentpicker.com/youtube-channel-id.php. Another very simple way to get the channel ID: At any channel page with "user" URL click a video of the channel (in its "VIDEOS" tab) and click the channel name on the video. Then you can get to the page with its "channel" URL. (I found this helpful info at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14366648/how-can-i-get-a-channel-id-from-youtube/18665812#18665812)

Single value constraint

I think this property should not have single-value constraint (Q19474404). Many items, including artists, companies, etc, have more than a YouTube channel. Take a look at the exception to constraint (P2303) property list to see the considerable amount of items exempted for this. Esteban16 (talk) 00:42, 13 February 2019 (UTC)

Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE)
Jarekt - mostly interested in properties related to Commons
MisterSynergy
John Samuel
Sannita
Yair rand
Jon Harald Søby
Pasleim
Jura
PKM
ChristianKl
Sjoerddebruin
Salgo60
Fralambert
Manu1400
Was a bee
Malore
Ivanhercaz
Peter F. Patel-Schneider
Pizza1016
Ogoorcs
ZI Jony
Eihel
cdo256
Epìdosis
Dhx1
99of9
Mathieu Kappler
Lectrician1
SM5POR
Infrastruktur

Notified participants of WikiProject property constraints --Esteban16 (talk) 22:09, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

• I  Support, some youtubers for example have secondary YouTube channels. --Thibaut (talk) 01:42, 12 August 2019 (UTC)
• I would  Support removing that constraint. - PKM (talk) 00:41, 10 September 2019 (UTC)
• Alternatively, create a separate item for each YouTube channel (see, for example, the distinction between Natalie Wynn (Q42429948) and ContraPoints (Q55639474)). --Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 09:44, 10 September 2019 (UTC)
•  Agree with Esteban16 to remove single-value constraint (Q19474404). Regards, ZI Jony ^(Talk) 13:32, 10 September 2019 (UTC)
• Also agree. Sannita - not just another it.wiki sysop 20:42, 10 September 2019 (UTC)

Based on consensus, I have removed the constraint. --Esteban16 (talk) 23:51, 10 September 2019 (UTC)

Verification

I've left a note on project chat (Wikidata:Project chat#Indicating verified accounts) on how best to indicate verified accounts across the different social media properties - comments welcome there. Andrew Gray (talk) 23:32, 15 March 2019 (UTC)

number of subscribers/followers

See Wikidata:Property proposal/subscribers. --- Jura 04:46, 25 July 2019 (UTC)

RSS

I found it by "viewing source" and searching for RSS it'll then be close-by inside the URL Back ache (talk) 14:58, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

"Mandatory" qualifiers

The "mandatory" qualifiers don't actually seem that mandatory — why is start time/number of subscribers required? Sdkb (talk) 09:13, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

@Trade: - You added the constraints. Can you explain? Mbch331 (talk)

All Youatube channels lists their start time and number of subscribers so i thought it would be quite fitting for this identifier. Also pretty helpful for people not familiar with WD.--Trade (talk) 10:20, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

My understanding is that qualifiers should only be mandatory if leaving them out would create problems, though. These seem at best like things we would suggest rather than demand. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 06:22, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

I don't see the need for them being mandatory either. Mbch331 (talk) 08:26, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

• Wikidata:Property proposal/social media followers could solve this differently. --- Jura 10:20, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

P1932, not P1810, for channel's title

In my view, the title of the Youtube channel should be provided with qualifier P1932 (English label was clarified from "stated as" to "object stated as" at 13:24, 31 May 2022), not P1810 (English label was clarified from "named as" to "subject named as" at 13:23, 31 May 2022), because the title is the name of the semantic triple's object (Youtube channel), not subject (Youtube channel's owner). I have accordingly revised the Wikidata usage instructions (added at 18:28, 22 January 2022), and added P1932 to allowed qualifiers constraint. --Neo-Jay (talk) 16:02, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

Incoming YouTube handles

So Google has been rolling out YouTube handles the past few weeks, and they intend to assign every channel a handle by 14 Nov 2022.

Wonder how this should be treated: a website username or ID (P554) qualifier on this YouTube channel property? Or a totally new property to propose? Btcprox (talk) 14:57, 2 November 2022 (UTC)

I would say new property. Username is already used for https://youtube.com/<username> and https://youtube.com/user/<username>. Mbch331 (talk) 15:18, 2 November 2022 (UTC)

@Btcprox, Mbch331: Wikidata:Property proposal/youtube handle --Loominade (talk) 07:18, 22 November 2022 (UTC)

Hey there, seems like it hasn't been addressed yet. מקף־עברי (talk) 22:45, 1 August 2023 (UTC)