How to deal with @ in channel name?

[2600box]

Hello,

Tubesync reports and error with this channel's url: https://www.youtube.com/@vaporcracra3589

I think because of the @

Is there any way to escape characters? Thanks!

[Mrpuppyz]

I discovered this as well. What I learned was YouTube changed the way they do their urls. Now you can go to a channel at www.youtube.com/c/@(channel name). However some YouTube channels cannot be found with the /c/ in the address. The work around I found for this was to use the channel ID option when adding a source. You can find a channel ID by going to this website. https://commentpicker.com/youtube-channel-id.php after adding the source using the channel ID tubesync was able to find the channel and start indexing.

[meeb]

Thanks for the issue support @Mrpuppyz - this is also discussed in https://github.com/meeb/tubesync/issues/243 for reference.

[Vandekieft]

I was having some issues too, especially with YouTube-Agent. It wants the channel ID. If you have user-scripts, you can try this (I made it is Violent Monkey):

https://github.com/Vandekieft/MonkeyScripts/blob/main/CopyYouTubeChannelID.txt

[kblock1]

Just had this happen with a specific channel - if you go to the about page in the youtube channel you can also click the "share" link, which gives and option for the full fat channelID, which then works fine

[meeb]

Nice tip, thanks @kblock1