Feature request: getting channel's data by `display name`

[betterthanever2]

It would be nice to have a method on YouTubeData class that would take full url to a channel, and would return a Channel object with data from the snippet section of the original object..

[dunkyl]

That is a good idea.
I have published a new version v0.4.9 with channel_by_url, which will accept id URLs (/channel/<channel_id>), handle URLs (/@<channel_handle>), or username URLs (/c/<channel_username).
That's the three kinds of URL that I am aware of, let me know if there are any others that might show up.

channel2 = await yt.channel_by_handle('@GoogleDevelopers')
channel2_ = await yt.channel_by_url('https://www.youtube.com/@googledevelopers')
assert channel2.id == channel2_.id

[dunkyl]

The issue title says "display name", but I am not aware of any URLs that use that? To clarify, the display name by YouTube's terminology is the non-unique name, like the Gmail name field.