Integrating spherical harmonic function

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$$\int_{0}^{2\pi} \int_{0}^{\pi} \sin \theta ~ Y_{lm}(\theta,\phi) \mathrm d\theta \mathrm d\phi $$

where $Y_{lm}(\theta, \phi)$ is the spherical harmonic defined as

$$Y_{lm} (\theta, \phi) = (-1)^{m} \sqrt{\frac{(2l + 1)}{4\pi}\frac{(l-m)!}{(l+m)!}} P_{lm}(\cos\theta) e^{i m\phi}$$