From 045a02e735b5e8f9c2098993319ca8e3fc52741f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stypox <stypox@pm.me>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 13:15:06 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix "Could not get id" for channels w/o "Subscribe" button

---
 .../services/youtube/extractors/YoutubeChannelExtractor.java | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/extractor/src/main/java/org/schabi/newpipe/extractor/services/youtube/extractors/YoutubeChannelExtractor.java b/extractor/src/main/java/org/schabi/newpipe/extractor/services/youtube/extractors/YoutubeChannelExtractor.java
index 624cba670..878902e78 100644
--- a/extractor/src/main/java/org/schabi/newpipe/extractor/services/youtube/extractors/YoutubeChannelExtractor.java
+++ b/extractor/src/main/java/org/schabi/newpipe/extractor/services/youtube/extractors/YoutubeChannelExtractor.java
@@ -82,6 +82,11 @@ public class YoutubeChannelExtractor extends ChannelExtractor {
     @Nonnull
     @Override
     public String getId() throws ParsingException {
+        try {
+            return doc.select("meta[itemprop=\"channelId\"]").first().attr("content");
+        } catch (Exception ignored) {}
+
+        // fallback method; does not work with channels that have no "Subscribe" button (e.g. EminemVEVO)
         try {
             Element element = doc.getElementsByClass("yt-uix-subscription-button").first();
             if (element == null) element = doc.getElementsByClass("yt-uix-subscription-preferences-button").first();