# How to get an App ID in LG TV?

**URL:** <https://forum.webostv.developer.lge.com/t/how-to-get-an-app-id-in-lg-tv/2279>\
**Category:** Web App Development\
**Created:** [March 6, 2023, 5:25am UTC](https://forum.webostv.developer.lge.com/t/how-to-get-an-app-id-in-lg-tv/2279 "2023-03-06T05:25:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gunasheela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5e9695/32.png) [@Gunasheela](https://forum.webostv.developer.lge.com/u/Gunasheela)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2023, 5:25am UTC](https://forum.webostv.developer.lge.com/t/how-to-get-an-app-id-in-lg-tv/2279/1 "2023-03-06T05:25:56Z")

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How we can get an App ID of YouTube app to launch that app from a different app.

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**Author:** ![narae0.kim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/87869e/32.png) [@narae0.kim](https://forum.webostv.developer.lge.com/u/narae0.kim)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 7:39am UTC](https://forum.webostv.developer.lge.com/t/how-to-get-an-app-id-in-lg-tv/2279/2 "2023-03-07T07:39:26Z")

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The webOS TV does not provide 3rd party apps’ information. For questions about YouTube, please contact YouTube support. Thank you.

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**Author:** ![snpadro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@snpadro](https://forum.webostv.developer.lge.com/u/snpadro)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2023, 3:41pm UTC](https://forum.webostv.developer.lge.com/t/how-to-get-an-app-id-in-lg-tv/2279/3 "2023-03-09T15:41:10Z")

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You can use a library on your backend to request a list of installed applications and their IDs. This will allow you to retrieve all the relevant information about the applications installed on the target tv.

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**Author:** ![lg-guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/47e85d/32.png) [@lg-guy](https://forum.webostv.developer.lge.com/u/lg-guy)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2023, 7:16pm UTC](https://forum.webostv.developer.lge.com/t/how-to-get-an-app-id-in-lg-tv/2279/4 "2023-07-11T19:16:23Z")

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exactly what “library”?

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**Author:** ![snpadro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@snpadro](https://forum.webostv.developer.lge.com/u/snpadro)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2023, 11:00pm UTC](https://forum.webostv.developer.lge.com/t/how-to-get-an-app-id-in-lg-tv/2279/5 "2023-07-11T23:00:27Z")

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there is a websocket message that can be called to obtain the list of the apps installed on your TV, even the running one. For example “PyWebOSTV” is a library for python that used this websocket payload to obtain the list. You can look into the files and identify the websocket message for “app.get\_current()”