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PatoFlamejanteTV
PatoFlamejanteTV

Reputation: 11

How do I implement a system that shows the difference in subscribers?

I was playing around with Roblox's HTTP request system and YouTube's API, and I made a working system that displays your current subscriber count. But I've been trying for a long time and failing to make a system that displays the difference in subscribers in the console.

Is there any way I can implement this in my code?

local HttpService = game:GetService("HttpService")

local API_KEY = "SECRET" -- Replace with your API key
local CHANNEL_ID = "UCA4yZCVHlHZVknfesTU3XOg" -- Replace with your channel ID

local fonts = {
        Enum.Font.Arcade,
        Enum.Font.Arial,
        Enum.Font.ArialBold,
        Enum.Font.Bangers,
        Enum.Font.Bodoni,
        Enum.Font.Cartoon,
        Enum.Font.Code,
        Enum.Font.Creepster,
        Enum.Font.DenkOne,
        Enum.Font.Fantasy,
        Enum.Font.Fondamento,
        Enum.Font.FredokaOne,
        Enum.Font.Garamond,
        Enum.Font.Gotham,
        Enum.Font.GothamBlack,
    }

local function getChannelStats()
    print("SENDING REQUEST")
    local success, result = pcall(function()
        local url = string.format("https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels?part=statistics&id=%s&key=%s", CHANNEL_ID, API_KEY)
        local response = HttpService:GetAsync(url)
        local data = HttpService:JSONDecode(response)

        local subscriberCount = data.items[1].statistics.subscriberCount
        --script.Parent.Text = "Inscritos: " .. subscriberCount
        script.Parent.Text = subscriberCount
        
        script.Parent.Font = fonts[math.random(1, #fonts)]
        
    end)

    if not success then
        warn("Error fetching channel data:", result)
        --script.Parent.Text = "Erro ao carregar dados."
    end
end

-- Call the function initially and every 10 seconds
getChannelStats()
while true do
    wait(2)
    getChannelStats()
end

I tried doing it myself, using Roblox's AI, testing some things/code snippets, but nothing worked. The expectation was to display the difference in subscribers in the Roblox console using print()

Upvotes: 0

Views: 59

Answers (1)

kexy123
kexy123

Reputation: 41

You can store the previous YouTube subscriber count before it is updated, and write the difference in a TextLabel.

Changes:

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+ local oldSubscriberCount = 0

...  9 lines skipped ...

+         local subscriberCountDifference = subscriberCount - oldSubscriberCount
+         local message = (subscriberCountDifference < 0 and "-" or "+") .. " subscribers"
+         -- Use the message variable to set the TextLabel of your choice
+         oldSubscriberCount = subscriberCount

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Modified code:

local HttpService = game:GetService("HttpService")

local API_KEY = "SECRET" -- Replace with your API key
local CHANNEL_ID = "UCA4yZCVHlHZVknfesTU3XOg" -- Replace with your channel ID

local fonts = {
        Enum.Font.Arcade,
        Enum.Font.Arial,
        Enum.Font.ArialBold,
        Enum.Font.Bangers,
        Enum.Font.Bodoni,
        Enum.Font.Cartoon,
        Enum.Font.Code,
        Enum.Font.Creepster,
        Enum.Font.DenkOne,
        Enum.Font.Fantasy,
        Enum.Font.Fondamento,
        Enum.Font.FredokaOne,
        Enum.Font.Garamond,
        Enum.Font.Gotham,
        Enum.Font.GothamBlack,
    }

local oldSubscriberCount = 0

local function getChannelStats()
    print("SENDING REQUEST")
    local success, result = pcall(function()
        local url = string.format("https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels?part=statistics&id=%s&key=%s", CHANNEL_ID, API_KEY)
        local response = HttpService:GetAsync(url)
        local data = HttpService:JSONDecode(response)

        local subscriberCount = data.items[1].statistics.subscriberCount

        local subscriberCountDifference = subscriberCount - oldSubscriberCount
        local message = (subscriberCountDifference < 0 and "-" or "+") .. " subscribers"
        -- Use the message variable to set the TextLabel of your choice
        oldSubscriberCount = subscriberCount

        --script.Parent.Text = "Inscritos: " .. subscriberCount
        script.Parent.Text = subscriberCount
        
        script.Parent.Font = fonts[math.random(1, #fonts)]
        
    end)

    if not success then
        warn("Error fetching channel data:", result)
        --script.Parent.Text = "Erro ao carregar dados."
    end
end

-- Call the function initially and every 10 seconds
getChannelStats()
while true do
    wait(2)
    getChannelStats()
end

Upvotes: 0

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