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mortey
mortey

Reputation: 179

Is there a way to get historical youtube subscriber information?

Currently I am retrieving daily subscriber information with the following request:

var videoOptions = {
        'part': 'snippet,contentDetails,statistics',
        'id': videoIds
    };

    // Send request
    youtube.videos.list(videoOptions, (err, videoDetails) => {});

My question is there a way to get historical subscriber information either through the Data API or Analytics API?

I see there is a way to see subs gained or lost over a period of time but I don't know what the base is to compare against:

https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/analytics/v1/reports?ids=channel%3D%3D{channelID}&start-date=2017-07-31&end-date=2017-08-01&&metrics=subscribersLost%2CsubscribersGained

Upvotes: 5

Views: 15581

Answers (2)

Dov
Dov

Reputation: 21

Depending on how large your subscriber base is, you could try checking the list of when users started subscribing at https://www.youtube.com/subscribers Perhaps this can offer some insight, and the number of rows/users returned can be counted to give an indication of historical activity.

Upvotes: 2

ReyAnthonyRenacia
ReyAnthonyRenacia

Reputation: 17613

There is currently no way to retrieve the historical number of subscribers in the past. The only way you can track your subscriber change is to perform channels.list, setting mySubscribers property to true and do it the next day. No method to check for history. This is also confirmed in this SO post.

Upvotes: 2

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