YouTube Subscriber Counter

[owain1988]

I was wondering if someone with the know how would be able to code a YouTube subscriber counter with a counter like Lametric clocks?

I presume that a lot of the code would already exist in the form of the DIY social media counters and that maybe the Facebook counter module could be adapted somehow.

Thanks.

[ashishtank]

@owain1988
Good Idea !, Google gives api to get the subscriber count and it can reuse the fbPageCounter module’s UI.

[choffmann]

@owain1988
Hey, I thought this was a cool project, so I have created something like that. You can find it under https://github.com/choffmann/MMM-YT-SubCount.

I hope this is what you wanted. I don’t know how exactly you want the number of the subscription, but the Google API rounded the value down, so 12,345 will shown as 12300 or 12.3K.

[ianperrin]

@choffmann - nice module.

Here’s a similar one I put together last year - https://github.com/ianperrin/MMM-YouTubeChannelStats

[jbishop129]

@ianperrin Thank you for this!! I was going crazy with my MM, and swapping in your YouTube plugin fixed all kinds of problems I was having, that I have now figured out were because the older “MMM-YT-Stats” plugin is apparently broken.