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What is the problem? Are you getting an error or something else? It's not clear from the title nor the description

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What is the problem? Are you getting an error or something else? It's not clear from the title nor the description

When doing a search for "Mystery at Blind Frog Ranch", the error I get is:
'Failed to extract the video channel ID.'

The reason is because the search encounters a video, where in order to watch the video, you have to 'Buy' it.

If you go to these Youtube URLs:
https://www.youtube.com/show/SCTlUsX7ucO3lLjmpYmbZKPg
https://www.youtube.com/show/SC5q_AUmH7GP_hCdqCc1QQXw
you can see that you have to pay to watch the episodes.

Any search results that tries to get the channel ID from episodes similar to the two links above, the search fails to extract the channel ID.

It seems the json structure changes when a search finds a normal video and a 'Buy' TV show video:
https://codebeautify.org/json-decode-online/y249b1c25
shows the JSON info for two Youtube videos.
The first (search) node is the "Buy" video that causes the 'Failed to extract the video channel ID.' error, and the second node is a normal video that would parse correctly if the search did not error on the first result.
If you look at the online JSON viewer, there is a channel ID for the first node, but it's listed under a different structure to that of a normal video.
"Buy" video structure:
videoRenderer > channelThumbnailSupportedRenderers > channelThumbnailWithLinkRenderer > navigationEndpoint > browseEndpoint > browseId
Normal Youtube video structure:
videoRenderer > longBylineText > runs > 0 > navigationEndpoint > browseEndpoint > browseId

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I may have found a solution, whether it's a proper way or not, I don't know.
In the SearchResponse.cs file, on line 86, modify:

public string? ChannelId =>
    AuthorDetails
        ?.GetPropertyOrNull("navigationEndpoint")
        ?.GetPropertyOrNull("browseEndpoint")
        ?.GetPropertyOrNull("browseId")
        ?.GetStringOrNull();

to:

public string? ChannelId =>
    AuthorDetails
        ?.GetPropertyOrNull("navigationEndpoint")
        ?.GetPropertyOrNull("browseEndpoint")
        ?.GetPropertyOrNull("browseId")
        ?.GetStringOrNull()
    ?? content
        .GetPropertyOrNull("channelThumbnailSupportedRenderers")
        ?.GetPropertyOrNull("channelThumbnailWithLinkRenderer")
        ?.GetPropertyOrNull("navigationEndpoint")
        ?.GetPropertyOrNull("browseEndpoint")
        ?.GetPropertyOrNull("browseId")
        ?.GetStringOrNull();

I've tested it multiple times and I was able to print the channel ID using the search query: "Mystery at Blind Frog Ranch"
Without the "?? content" section, searching gave me the "Failed to extract the video channel ID." error.

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Ok, thank you for the clarification.

If you have a solution, feel free to make a PR so we can test it out.

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