YouTube View Counter

A YouTube bot that will update the video title to match the view count.

Here’s the original YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxV14h0kFs0

And here’s my copy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yza3FfiMupM

For now, my script is running as a cron job ervery 10 minutes (in order to stay under the 10,000 "units" per day limit).

Screenshots

Video About OAuth2 from EngineerMan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-bHvqQ378s&ab_channel=EngineerMan

Project Setup

Clone the repo locally

  git clone https://github.com/lalitkumawat1m/YoutubeViewCounter.git
  cd YoutubeViewCounter

Install the dependencies (via Yarn, or npm)

  npm install 

Setup YouTube API

A lof of the code is copied over from https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/quickstart/nodejs

1. Log into the Google Developers Console: https://console.developers.google.com/

2. Create New Project On the right side you should see a button to create a new project. I'll name mine "Youtube View Counter" Next, click "Create".

3. Enable the YouTube Data API v3 Click the "Enable APIs and Services" button

   Search for "YouTube" and then enable the "YouTube Data API v3"

4. Generate Credentials Click the "Create Credentails" button

5. Set up consent screen Select "External" for the User Type

Fill out your Application Name, then hit "Save" at the very bottom

In your console.cloud.google.com Complete The Steps

Fill out the Fields in token.js and updater.js and run command node token.js

Click on the link and authorize the App:

After that you get your token to fill out the .gettoken() in token.js

run node token.js again

Output to get the REFRESH_TOKEN for updater.js:

After that fill out the updater.js with your Infos

run node updater.js

or run node index.js to start server
and deploy this server on cloud like render

You will get your new access token every time you call node updater.js

Fill in the YT Video ID and You are good to go!

If successful, your video title will be update after 10 minutes or if you can't wait then you can change time according to your own by reading 👇 node-corn documentation.

node-corn is used (here is full documentation https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-cron)

To automatically run the bot in every 10 minutes, you can setup a cron job that calls the script.

YouTube API limits By defauly, YouTube gives you 10,000 "units" per day on the API.

You can also calcualte your API costs here.

So for our purposes, the two API calls are:

videos.list.statistics = 3 units

videos.update.snippet = 53 units

For a total of 56 units per invocation.

So, if I have a bucket of 10,000 per day, and it costs 56 units each time, I can run it ~178 times per day.

With 1440 minutes in a day divided by 178, we can safely run the bot about every 8 miutes. We'll round up to 10 to be safe!

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