diff --git a/utils/youtube-channel.ts b/utils/youtube-channel.ts
index 9703bd2..b893a47 100644
--- a/utils/youtube-channel.ts
+++ b/utils/youtube-channel.ts
@@ -409,7 +409,7 @@ export async function fetchChannelVideos(
         hl: 'en',
         gl: 'US',
         clientName: 'WEB',
-        clientVersion: '2.20250222.10.00'
+        clientVersion: '2.20260722.01.00'
       }
     },
     continuation: token
@@ -418,7 +418,7 @@ export async function fetchChannelVideos(
   const headers = {
     'Content-Type': 'application/json',
     'x-youtube-client-name': '1',
-    'x-youtube-client-version': '2.20250222.10.00',
+    'x-youtube-client-version': '2.20260722.01.00',
     'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/119.0.0.0 Safari/537.36'
   };
 
@@ -525,6 +525,47 @@ export function relativeTimeToTimestamp(publishedText: string): number {
   return (now - diff) * 1000;
 }
 
+interface YouTubeBrowseResponse {
+  error?: { code: string | number; message: string };
+  alerts?: Array<{ alertRenderer?: { type?: string; text?: { simpleText?: string } } }>;
+  header?: {
+    pageHeaderRenderer?: {
+      content?: {
+        pageHeaderViewModel?: {
+          title?: { dynamicTextViewModel?: { text?: { content?: string; attachmentRuns?: Array<{ element?: { type?: { imageType?: { image?: { sources?: Array<{ clientResource?: { imageName?: string } }> } } } } }> } } };
+          image?: { imageViewModel?: { image?: { sources?: Array<{ url: string }> } } };
+          animatedImage?: { contentPreviewImageViewModel?: { image?: { sources?: Array<{ url: string }> } } };
+          metadata?: { contentMetadataViewModel?: { metadataRows?: Array<{ metadataParts?: Array<{ text?: { content?: string } }> }> } };
+          banner?: { imageBannerViewModel?: { image?: { sources?: Array<{ url: string; width: number; height: number }> } } };
+        }
+      }
+    };
+    c4TabbedHeaderRenderer?: {
+      banner?: { thumbnails?: Array<{ url: string; width: number; height: number }> };
+    };
+  };
+  metadata?: {
+    channelMetadataRenderer?: {
+      title?: string;
+      externalId?: string;
+      avatar?: { thumbnails?: Array<{ url: string }> };
+      description?: string;
+    };
+  };
+  contents?: {
+    twoColumnBrowseResultsRenderer?: {
+      tabs?: Array<{ tabRenderer?: { title?: string } }>;
+    };
+  };
+  microformat?: {
+    microformatDataRenderer?: {
+      tags?: string[];
+      familySafe?: boolean;
+      availableCountries?: string[];
+    };
+  };
+}
+
 export async function fetchChannelInfo(channelId: string) {
   const payload = {
     context: {
@@ -532,16 +573,15 @@ export async function fetchChannelInfo(channelId: string) {
         hl: 'en',
         gl: 'US',
         clientName: 'WEB',
-        clientVersion: '2.20250222.10.00'
+        clientVersion: '2.20260722.01.00'
       }
     },
     browseId: channelId
   };
-
   const headers = {
     'Content-Type': 'application/json',
     'x-youtube-client-name': '1',
-    'x-youtube-client-version': '2.20250222.10.00',
+    'x-youtube-client-version': '2.20260722.01.00',
     'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/119.0.0.0 Safari/537.36'
   };
 
@@ -560,22 +600,42 @@ export async function fetchChannelInfo(channelId: string) {
     throw new Error(`YouTube API error ${data.error.code}: ${data.error.message}`);
   }
 
-  const renderer = data.metadata?.channelMetadataRenderer;
-  if (!renderer) {
-    throw new Error('Could not find channel metadata renderer in YouTube response');
+  if (data.alerts?.length && data.alerts[0]?.alertRenderer?.type === 'ERROR') {
+    throw new Error(data.alerts[0].alertRenderer.text?.simpleText || 'Channel error');
   }
 
-  const author = renderer.title || '';
-  const authorId = renderer.externalId || channelId;
-  const authorUrl = `/channel/${authorId}`;
+  const pageHeaderViewModel = data.header?.pageHeaderRenderer?.content?.pageHeaderViewModel;
 
-  const rawAvatarUrl = renderer.avatar?.thumbnails?.[0]?.url || '';
+  let author = '';
+  let authorId = channelId;
+  let rawAvatarUrl = '';
+  let description = '';
+  let autoGenerated = false;
+
+  if (data.metadata?.channelMetadataRenderer) {
+    const renderer = data.metadata.channelMetadataRenderer;
+    author = renderer.title || '';
+    authorId = renderer.externalId || channelId;
+    rawAvatarUrl = renderer.avatar?.thumbnails?.[0]?.url || '';
+    description = renderer.description || '';
+  } else {
+    // Auto-generated channels often have no metadata
+    autoGenerated = true;
+    author = pageHeaderViewModel?.title?.dynamicTextViewModel?.text?.content || '';
+
+    // Extract avatar for auto-generated channels (Gaming, Music, etc.)
+    rawAvatarUrl = pageHeaderViewModel?.image?.imageViewModel?.image?.sources?.[0]?.url
+                || pageHeaderViewModel?.animatedImage?.contentPreviewImageViewModel?.image?.sources?.[0]?.url
+                || '';
+  }
+
+  const authorUrl = `/channel/${authorId}`;
   const authorThumbnails = rawAvatarUrl ? getAuthorThumbnails(rawAvatarUrl) : [];
 
   // Parse subscriber and video counts
   let subCount = 0;
   let videoCount = 0;
-  const metadataRows = data.header?.pageHeaderRenderer?.content?.pageHeaderViewModel?.metadata?.contentMetadataViewModel?.metadataRows;
+  const metadataRows = pageHeaderViewModel?.metadata?.contentMetadataViewModel?.metadataRows;
   if (Array.isArray(metadataRows)) {
     for (const row of metadataRows) {
       if (Array.isArray(row.metadataParts)) {
@@ -593,7 +653,37 @@ export async function fetchChannelInfo(channelId: string) {
     }
   }
 
-  const description = renderer.description || '';
+  // Check for verified badge
+  let authorVerified = false;
+  const badgeName = pageHeaderViewModel?.title?.dynamicTextViewModel?.text?.attachmentRuns?.[0]?.element?.type?.imageType?.image?.sources?.[0]?.clientResource?.imageName;
+  if (badgeName === 'CHECK_CIRCLE_FILLED' || badgeName === 'AUDIO_BADGE') {
+    authorVerified = true;
+  }
+
+  // Extract tabs
+  const tabsRaw = data.contents?.twoColumnBrowseResultsRenderer?.tabs;
+  let tabs: string[] = [];
+  if (Array.isArray(tabsRaw)) {
+    tabs = tabsRaw
+      .map((t: { tabRenderer?: { title?: string } }) => t.tabRenderer?.title?.toLowerCase())
+      .filter((title): title is string => Boolean(title))
+      .map((name: string) => name === 'live' ? 'streams' : name);
+  }
+
+  // Extract microformat data
+  const tags = data.microformat?.microformatDataRenderer?.tags || [];
+  const isFamilyFriendly = data.microformat?.microformatDataRenderer?.familySafe ?? true;
+  const allowedRegions = data.microformat?.microformatDataRenderer?.availableCountries || [];
+
+  // Extract banners
+  let authorBanners = [];
+  const bannerSources = pageHeaderViewModel?.banner?.imageBannerViewModel?.image?.sources;
+  if (Array.isArray(bannerSources)) {
+    authorBanners = bannerSources;
+  } else if (data.header?.c4TabbedHeaderRenderer?.banner?.thumbnails) {
+    authorBanners = data.header.c4TabbedHeaderRenderer.banner.thumbnails;
+  }
+  const banner = authorBanners.length > 0 ? authorBanners[authorBanners.length - 1].url : null;
 
   return {
     type: 'channel',
@@ -601,12 +691,18 @@ export async function fetchChannelInfo(channelId: string) {
     authorId,
     authorUrl,
     authorThumbnails,
+    authorBanners,
+    banner,
     subCount,
     videoCount,
     description,
     descriptionHtml: description,
-    authorVerified: false,
-    autoGenerated: false
+    authorVerified,
+    autoGenerated,
+    isFamilyFriendly,
+    allowedRegions,
+    tabs,
+    tags
   };
 }