How to get user specific recommended videos based on specific channel

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How to get user specific recommended videos based on specific channel like - nba, nationalgeographic using YouTube API?

I am using the below API to get recommended videos.

https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/default/recommendations?v=2&key=&access_token=

key -> I am passing my developer key

access_token -> I am passing authentication token.

Its returning me recommended videos of specific user. But I need recommended videos of specific channels like nba, nationalgeographic.

Can anyone please help for this.

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I think you might have your terminology mixed up here. What do you mean by "recommended videos of specific channels"? Is there something specific in the web interface at youtube.com/user/NationalGeographic that corresponds to what you're talking about, for instance? – Jeff Posnick

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I know this is old but in case anyone googling this comes across this answer, a workaround until there is a full recommendation API in YouTube API v3 is to use the Activity List feature, then just go through the results looking for "type": "recommendation":

https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/activities/list

GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/activities?part=snippet&home=true&maxResults=50&key={YOUR_API_KEY}

(don't forget to use an auth token for a user for this to work)