הטבלה הבאה מציגה תרחישים לדוגמה נפוצים לשימוש בשיטה הזו. אפשר ללחוץ על שם של תרחיש לדוגמה כדי לטעון ערכי פרמטרים לדוגמה ב-API Explorer. לחלופין, אפשר לראות דוגמאות קוד לתרחיש לדוגמה ב-APIs Explorer במסך מלא בלחיצה על סמל הקוד שמתחת לשם של התרחיש לדוגמה. בממשק המשתמש במסך מלא אפשר לעדכן את ערכי הפרמטרים והמאפיינים, ודוגמאות הקוד יתעדכנו באופן דינמי כדי לשקף את הערכים שהזנתם.

Use cases
list (by channel ID)
Code symbol that, when clicked, opens the fullscreen APIs Explorer widget and populates it with values for the 'list (by channel ID)' example for the channels.list method.		This example retrieves channel data for the GoogleDevelopers YouTube channel. It uses the id request parameter to identify the channel by its YouTube channel ID.
list (by YouTube handle)
Code symbol that, when clicked, opens the fullscreen APIs Explorer widget and populates it with values for the 'list (by YouTube handle)' example for the channels.list method.		This example retrieves channel data for the "Google for Developers" YouTube channel. It uses the forHandle request parameter to identify the channel by its YouTube handle.
list (by YouTube username)
Code symbol that, when clicked, opens the fullscreen APIs Explorer widget and populates it with values for the 'list (by YouTube username)' example for the channels.list method.		This example retrieves channel data for the GoogleDevelopers YouTube channel. It uses the forUsername request parameter to identify the channel by its YouTube username.
list (my channel)
Code symbol that, when clicked, opens the fullscreen APIs Explorer widget and populates it with values for the 'list (my channel)' example for the channels.list method.		This example retrieves the channel data for the authorized user's YouTube channel. It uses the mine request parameter to indicate that the API should only return channels owned by the user authorizing the request.
list (channels managed by a content owner)
Code symbol that, when clicked, opens the fullscreen APIs Explorer widget and populates it with values for the 'list (channels managed by a content owner)' example for the channels.list method.		This example retrieves a list of channels managed by the specified YouTube content owner.