What this tool does
Give it a channel and it returns that channel's profile picture — the logo, icon or avatar, all names for the same image — in every resolution YouTube publishes, plus the channel banner where one is set. It accepts an @handle, a channel URL, a raw channel ID or a link to any video on the channel, so you rarely have to go and find the "right" URL first.
How to use it
- Paste a channel URL, an @handle, a channel ID beginning UC, or the URL of any video from that channel.
- Press "Get logo".
- Check the channel name and subscriber count shown next to the image so you know you have the right channel.
- Pick the size you need and download it.
Logo, icon, avatar, profile picture — all the same file
YouTube calls it the profile picture. Creators call it the channel logo. Designers call it the avatar or the channel icon. Searchers use all four, plus "extractor", "grabber" and "downloader". They are the same square image, and this tool returns it however you got here.
What it is not is the banner. The banner is the wide image across the top of a channel page, a different file at a completely different aspect ratio. Where a channel has one set, it is returned alongside the logo so you do not have to run two tools.
The sizes YouTube publishes, and which to use
YouTube stores one master image and serves resized versions from its content delivery network. Uploads are recommended at 800 × 800 pixels and rendered as a circle, so anything important should sit well inside the square.
| Size | Where YouTube uses it | Good for |
|---|---|---|
| 88 × 88 | Comment avatars, small lists | Almost nothing outside a thumbnail grid — it is too small to reuse |
| 176 × 176 | Sidebar and subscription lists | Favicons, small UI, a compact credit line |
| 800 × 800 | The channel page header | The default choice for anything printed, embedded or placed in a document |
| Banner (2560 × 1440 master) | The wide image on the channel page | Reference and layout work; YouTube crops it heavily by device |
Take the largest size you can and scale down. Scaling a 176-pixel image up to 800 will look soft, and no tool can add detail that was never served.
Everything comes back as JPEG or WebP, whichever YouTube serves for that channel. That is the format on their CDN — the tool passes through what exists rather than re-encoding it, which would only lose quality.
What you can paste
| Input | Notes |
|---|---|
@handle or youtube.com/@handle |
The modern form. Resolved through the API. |
youtube.com/channel/UC… |
The canonical channel URL. Always works. |
UC… on its own |
A raw channel ID, 24 characters starting UC. |
youtube.com/c/name or /user/name |
Legacy custom URLs. Still resolve for channels that had them. |
| Any video URL from the channel | The channel is looked up from the video, which is often the quickest route when you do not know the handle. |
Copyright: what downloading does and does not give you
This matters more than anything else on the page, and most tools in this category say nothing about it.
A channel logo is somebody's work, and usually somebody's trademark. Downloading it does not license it. The image being publicly served by YouTube's CDN makes it accessible; it does not make it yours to use.
Generally fine
- Your own channel's logo — you own it.
- Reference and comparison while you design your own.
- Editorial and journalistic use where you are reporting on the channel, with attribution.
- A research deck or an internal document that discusses the channel.
- A link, a citation or an embed that points back to the channel.
Not fine without permission
- Using someone else's logo as your own avatar, watermark or branding.
- Putting it on merchandise, a thumbnail or an advert.
- Anything that implies endorsement, partnership or affiliation.
- Re-uploading it as a standalone asset in a pack or a stock library.
- Training on it or redistributing it commercially.
If you want to use another channel's logo in a way that is not clearly editorial, ask them. Most creators answer, and many have a press kit with the assets and permissions already sorted.
If a channel will not resolve
- A handle that does not exist. Handles are case-insensitive but exact; a typo returns nothing. Copy it from the channel page rather than typing it.
- A very new channel. Channels created in the last day or two are occasionally not yet queryable by handle. The
UC…channel ID will still work. - A terminated or private channel. Nothing to return.
- A video URL for a deleted video. Use the channel URL instead.
- No banner shown. Not an error. Many channels never set one, and the tool says so rather than serving a placeholder.
Limits you should know about
- Public channels only. A terminated or private channel returns nothing.
- The image is whatever YouTube currently serves. If a channel changed its logo an hour ago, the CDN may still be serving the old one for a while.
- Sizes are the ones YouTube publishes. Nothing is upscaled, because upscaling would invent detail that was never there.
- Results are cached for 24 hours per channel.
- Sixty requests an hour per IP address.
- Downloading a logo is not a licence to use it. See the copyright section above.
Questions people ask
How do I download a YouTube channel logo?
Paste the channel URL, its @handle, its UC channel ID or a link to any of its videos, press "Get logo", then pick a size and download. No account and no extension needed.
What size is a YouTube channel logo?
YouTube recommends uploading at 800 × 800 pixels and serves resized versions at 800, 176 and 88 pixels square. It is displayed as a circle, so anything near the corners gets cropped. Take the 800 and scale down if you need something smaller.
Can I download the logo in high resolution?
800 × 800 is the largest YouTube serves, and that is what you get. No tool can give you more than the creator uploaded, and anything advertising a 4K channel logo is upscaling it.
Can I get the channel banner too?
Yes, where the channel has set one. It comes back alongside the logo. Banners are stored from a 2560 × 1440 master and cropped hard depending on the device, so what you download is the full image rather than the crop you see on the channel page.
Does this work with @handles?
Yes, with or without the youtube.com prefix. Channel IDs beginning UC, legacy /c/ and /user/ URLs, and any video URL from the channel all work too.
Is it legal to download a YouTube channel logo?
Downloading a publicly served image is not itself the issue. Using it is. The logo is the creator's work and usually their trademark: reference, comparison and editorial use are generally fine, but using it as your own branding, on merchandise, or in anything implying endorsement is not, and needs permission.
Why is the image blurry when I enlarge it?
You have taken a smaller size and scaled it up. Download the 800 × 800 version instead. If that is still soft, the creator uploaded a small image in the first place and there is nothing further to recover.
What format are the downloads?
JPEG or WebP, whichever YouTube's CDN serves for that channel. The file is passed through as-is rather than re-encoded, so you get exactly what YouTube has without a second round of compression.
Everything here reads live data from the YouTube Data API or from the
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No account is needed for anything on this site.
Last changed
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see the changelog.