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is-youtube-channel

Simple check to see if a given string is a youtube channel

Example

var isChannel = require('is-youtube-channel')

isChannel("UCMIh8iKkrWVhV_YSgHejvoA", function(err, valid){}) // channel ids
isChannel("monstercat", function(err, valid){})               // aliases
isChannel("monstercatmedia", function(err, valid){})          // usernames
isChannel("JacobiCarterMC", function(err, valid){})           // /c/ urls

API

isChannel(name : String,
          function(err : Error | null, isValid : bool, url : String))

• name: youtube username, channel id, or alias
• err: error objects if a request error occurs
• isValid: true if channel is a valid channel, false otherwise
• url: url that was found to work for the given channel name