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principal-ideal-domain

Reputation: 4296

Get number of subscribers of YouTube channel

In former times I used

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/USERNAME?v=2&alt=json

to get the number of subscribers for certain users. A month ago Google disabled that old API. Is there an alternative now which doesn't make use of an API_KEY?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1059

Answers (2)

not_a_bot
not_a_bot

Reputation: 2372

You could try using subscriptions.list to get the list of subs via the API explorer. See the mySubscribers field.

Upvotes: 0

Chaker
Chaker

Reputation: 1207

If you like a very ugly solution ( or you may work on it ), you can use YQL.

replace url with the one you have 

https://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=select div from html where url="https://www.youtube.com/user/Computerphile"&format=json&diagnostics=true&callback=

and then fetch number of subscriber from the json string

example in python

>>> import requests
>>> import json
>>> r = requests.get('https://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=select div from html where url="https://www.youtube.com/user/Computerphile"&format=json&diagnostics=true&callback=')
>>> res = json.loads(r.text)
>>> res ["query"]["results"]["body"][3]["div"]["div"][3]["div"]["div"][4]["div"]["div"][0]["div"]["div"][1]["div"]["span"]["span"][0]["content"]
u'409,045'

You can use regex:

>>> re.findall('"content":"(\d+(,\d*)*?)"',r.text)
[(u'409,045', u',045')]

and then extraxt the first group.

Upvotes: 1

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