How to Find YouTube Video ID - or IDs rather?
Wait a moment: there are basically two kinds of YouTube Video IDs.
1, the Video ID of a specific video recording uploaded on YouTube. you may want to get it in order to undelete deleted youtube videos.
2, the Video ID of videos you uploaded yourself to YouTube, some of which may potentially violate copyright rules.
So how do you find the YouTube Video ID you need?
1, the video ID of any YouTube video (no matter if you or somebody else uploaded it)
How do you know the ID of a youtube video? It’s very simply: the youtube video ID is in the URL of that specific video, so just take the URL into pieces and there you go, the ID is taken. Every youtube video URL starts like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= Anything that comes after the v= (letters and numbers) is the youtube video ID. Here’s the most simple way to find the correct vid ID
2, if you want to check the video ID matches of your videos for copyright reasons, follow these steps:
Digital Inspiration adds that
The tool may be accurate but won’t cover all videos for the following reason: The content owners are required to upload a copy of all their copyrighted videos to YouTube and then YouTube will perform the match against user uploaded video - hence copyright infringements for videos that are not uploaded by content owners will never get discovered by the YouTube ID system.
YouTube may use the audio or video portion or even both to match the ID of your videos with their database. In case a violation is detected, access to your videos may be blocked.