YouTube Badge

[MohamedAliRashad]

📋 Description

• The Badge will have the youtube logo on it with a red theme and an endpoint to a specified video or a channel.
• It will also be customizable to monitor a view count, a like count or a subscription count (like any social badge).

🔗 Data

YouTube API has a live streaming option now, Tom Scott has proven this idea.

🎤 Motivation

• It will be nice for linking demonstration videos to repos without taking this huge space for showing the video thumbnail or just leave an embedded link in a word.
• Also, it can help content creators to have a clean way of merging their tutorials with their repos in GitHub.

[PyvesB]

Hello @MohamedAliRashad , thanks for the suggestion!

I've done a bit of digging, and I believe the relevant API to get statistics about a video (viewers, likes, etc.) is the following: https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/videos#resource

Keeping in mind the problems that we've had with other services, for example #2120, I looked into the API quota documentation. If my understanding is correct, we would need to perform a video list call with a statistics part. This would consume approximately 3 API units, amounting to 3333 API calls per day. If the badge becomes popular, this may not be sufficient, but it seems easy enough to request a free quota increase by filling in a form.

Given the above and given that YouTube is used by quite a few developers, I think adding this badge would be a good idea!

Would you be interested in helping us out? We've got a great little tutorial to get you started!

[MohamedAliRashad]

Thanks @PyvesB for the research, i would very much like to help but my knowledge in JavaScript is basically zero so i don't think i will be of much help.

[PyvesB]

Okay fair. Will probably pick this up myself at some point, however, if someone wants to pick it up in the meantime, feel free to ping me here!

[ngoldack]

I've created a simple api so you can use a custom /endpoint badge for youtube. You need to deploy it yourself but with vercel it's free and simple: https://github.com/ntec-io/youtube-channel-badge