YouTube Data API Tutorial - Create a YouTube Subscriber Count with JavaScript 

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hahaha that's awesome! Thank you so much!

@@RaddyDev your welcome :D

Hola, Desafortunadamente, ya no puedes hacer eso. Google cambió la API y ahora los números se abrevian

I am not familiar with Streaming and their API's. No idea how they work, sorry. I would assume that you would need something like a NodeJs server and SocketsIO for low latency updates

Hi, thanks for letting me know. You are right about the audio, but unfortunately RU-vid won't let me edit it unless no re-upload. I invested in a nice mic and the newer videos should be okay

If the Google API only accepts one ID at a time you could create an array that contains the channel IDs and then create a loop that goes and gets the data one my one. The issue with that is if you have let's say 100 accounts then you have to do 100 request which doesn't sound good I am not aware if you could do multiple accounts with one request. You could look on their documentation or search on the internet to see if somebody else has had the same problem. I hope that you solve it! 👊🦍

@@RaddyDev thank you for the response. I’m gonna go experiment with it and apply some of the things you said in ur reply... and see where I get. And ill come back.

I need to update the title, description and keywords. It's probably not ranking well on RU-vid Search. Thanks for you comment and I am glad that you found the video useful.

Why are you not using CSS to make it look the way you want?

Glad that you found it helpful, OtakuGirl! Thank you for the comment

Yes, there is no limit. The only thing that you have to be aware of is that channels with fewer than 1,000 subscribers, the exact (non-abbreviated) subscriber count will be shown. Once your channel passes the 1000 subscriber milestone, RU-vid will begin to abbreviate your public subscriber numbers on a sliding scale. If a channel has 4,227 subscribers, the public subscriber count will read “4.2k” until the channel reaches 4,300. If a channel has 133,017 subscribers, the public subscriber count will read “133K” until the channel reaches 134,000. And so on... It's a shame that you can't have it non abbreviated. I hope this helps

It sounds like you are not getting any data back. On the second .then try console.log(data) and see if you get the data in the inspector under console.

The Google API only accepts one ID at a time and so you could create an array that contains the channel IDs and then create a loop that goes and gets the data. I am not aware if you could do multiple accounts with one request so that might be your only option

Glad I could help

Yeah, every channel has a unique channel ID and the custom names are kind of just a nice link to it. Usually, you can search for a channel, click on it and it should give you its unique id. I am sure that there are plenty of websites that can show you your unique id by typing the channel name

@@RaddyDev i didn't find any website does that, Right now, i can't find any proper way to get the id for channels that have customURL

@@ahmedhassan_saver Ah I see... You can do it manually, but with JS is a bit more difficult. Could you use a data scraper? So you provide the channel URL example: youtube dot com/raddydev and then use the scraper to grab the channel ID. I found it in the source code a couple of times so it should be ok to select

You can restrict the access to your API's from the Google Developers Console. The restriction controls which websites, IP addresses, or applications can use your API key. In short, as long as you don't have it open to everyone you should be fine. Thanks for the comment! 🦍

@@RaddyDev Is there any way to hide API key from websites

@@kumarPinku Not unless you use a backend language I guess. As long as you restrict it, it shouldn't be a problem. You can always re-generate a new API key if for some reason you need to do that

Thank you and you too, UltraFlip!

You can restrict your API to a specific IP address. Grab the IP address of your web server and go to the google console and you'll find the setting under Credentials

Glad that you found it helpful! Thanks for the comment

@@RaddyDev You are very welcome and thank you! :))

@@RaddyDev 10/10!!!

Thank you!

You might be able to use the RU-vid Search API to do that

You are most welcome

Thank you!

Yes, you can

Sorry, for some reason I didn't see this comment. I actually did a video which was showing a counter (almost real time). It was checking every 10 minutes or so and that was to save on API calls. It's not super accurate as RU-vid changed the way the API displays the numbers, but it's as close as you can get it I guess. I actually had to delete that video as there was something wrong with the intro. I might re-do the intro and re-upload it. It's a very long video, but I could section the RU-vid API section to make it easy. Thanks for the comment and sorry for the slow reply!

thank you 🙂

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You can do setInterval to run the getSubscribers function at specified intervals. Let's say make it check the RU-vid API every 10 min...

@@RaddyDev I'm trying to use youtube api to get a list of subscribers to a channel i own then check a user's login to find out if he's subscribed or not. and im trying this link and always get error : www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/subscriptions?part=subscriberSnippet&myRecentSubscribers=true&key=xxxxx where's the fault? *Sorry for my bad english

I think you need to add &mine=true but you also have to be authorized. By the way brother, don't post your key publicly as people might abuse it.

Thank you, Rj

How come? You can't find it?

Ah, found it. ui got changed, need to go to share channel link button, rather than url

You can use the free tier, but there is a limit. I can't remember the exact number you'll have to see it in their pricing model. If you find that you are using the free limit then you can pay for more API calls if you wish

It does look like it a little bit, but it's not jQuery. They are called Template literals (template strings) and they are quite nice to use for embedding expressions just like I have on the video. To use them, you just use backticks and then you can add your variables with the dollar sign and the expression - ${expression}. Thank you for the question :)

Yes, you can do that. I am pretty sure that you can chain the channels id's to get more results at once. Let's say we have: Jakub and LinusTechTips You can store their channels id's into something like an array and then you would chain them like so: youtube/v3/channels?id=[replace with Jakub channel ID]&id=[replace with LinusTechTips ID]&key=[YOUR_API_KEY] I hope this helps :-)

Have you looked at the likescounter dot com website? Maybe that's something you could use instead of making a custom one. I like the idea

We get the response from the API and we parse it as JSON. Another example would be if you want the response to return as text you would do response.text()

@@RaddyDevohh, and then that's what goes into the console right?

Yeah that's it. In the console we can see the data and how is structured to help us select what we need

You can use setInterval to call the API every second and that would give you the live subscriber count. There are limited free API calls that you can make, so you would have to pay. I created a live subscriber count for myself a while back, but I just set it to update every 10 min and that was fine for me. I also used the javascript library Odometer to make the numbers spin which was pretty cool and easy to do. I've added the setInterval on my blog post in the description. I can add the odometer one too if you want it.

@@RaddyDev we cannot get one for free my parents won't let me use there money.

It's free to get started and you can do 10,000 units per day. Just don't request the API every second and that should be more than enough to build your project

@@RaddyDev but i am beginners 😂😂😂

@@RaddyDev can you make video for that??

Unfortunately, you can't do that anymore. Google changed the API and now the numbers are abbreviated. The only way to get the accurate subscriber count is from your RU-vid account in RU-vid Studio. Not sure what else you can do... it sucks

Thank you, although I am baffled by some of the RU-vid channels that broadcast live subscribers to this day You can watch it by writing top 50 RU-vid subscriptions It uses RU-vid API

​@@meitanteiedugawa8751 I am not sure why that is, but it could be that it only works for the TOP channels. This is from the Social Blade website: UPDATE 1: Sept 17 2019 3pm ET (19:00 UTC) - RU-vid has started to roll this out to the API. Some (not all) channels now show abbreviated counts. Here is the full article if you want to have a look. socialblade.com/blog/abbreviated-subscriber-counts-on-youtube/ If you look at the comments, you can see that a lot of people want the live subscriber count back, but Google doesn't seem to care.

@@RaddyDev thanks for your reply There are always things that do not have an explanation or are out of the ordinary Greetings to you

@@meitanteiedugawa8751 I found this website which does it for the TOP RU-vid subscribers. I think that they are just very good predictions. The website let's you embed the subscriber count, but it's still abbreviated for everyone else. Here is MrBeast: livecounts.io/youtube-live-subscriber-count/UCX6OQ3DkcsbYNE6H8uQQuVA

One day, when Google changes the way their API works.

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Their API is quite large and powerful so I would assume that you can do it. Have you look in their documentation

@@RaddyDev I m unable to find it, that's why I m asking

You can do it all. You can search by location and get results by view count which is what you want. Here is the link: developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/search/list

@@RaddyDev It is not possible through this

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Glad that you found it useful. Thank you!

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Okay Dokey