Get basic info from yt music.getArtist() call.

[titong0]

Question

Is there any way to get a channel's Name and profile picture? my old code looked like this

  const artist = await client.music.getArtist(channelId);

  return {
      name: artist.header?.title.text,
      avatar: artist.header.thumbnail?.contents,
      description: artist.header.description.text,
      id: channelId,
    }

but as of version 2.3.0, artist.header.title is possibly undefined.
thumbnail and description are only present in MusicVisualHeader and MusicInmersiveHeader. but artist.header can also be MusicHeader which doesn't have them.

1. How can I get the channels name without having to do optional chaining? (I feel like artis.header?.title.text could break)
2. How can I get the avatar and (if present) description?

Other details

I saw this issue but I'm pretty sure this information could be obtained without an additional call.

Checklist

• I am running the latest version.
• I checked the documentation and found no answer.
• I have searched the existing issues and made sure this is not a duplicate.
• I have provided sufficient information.

[itsmenewbie03]

Not sure if this is the best approach but this could work xD

    const artist = await yt.music.getArtist(cId);
    const name = artist.header.title?.text;
    if (artist.header.type === 'MusicVisualHeader') {
        //has profile pic probably
        var avatar = artist.header.foreground_thumbnails[0].url
    }
    else if (artist.header.type === 'MusicImmersiveHeader') {
        //has banner
        var desc = artist.header.description?.text
        var avatar = artist.header.thumbnail.contents[0].url
    }

[LuanRT]

MusicHeader is used in other pages where it doesn't need a title, but I doubt that will ever be the case for artist pages, so I wouldn't worry about that. And as for the description, profile pictures and banners you'll have to manually check the header type. If it helps, YouTube Music seems to favor MusicImmersiveHeader.

[titong0]

Thanks! I'll try this method out.