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pywikibot-youtube-subscribers

A simple script to update YouTube channel stats in a Wikipedia page.

Basically, this script does three things:

  1. Parse a YouTube personality infobox on a Wikipedia page to obtain the channel ID
  2. Query the statistics for the channel ID to the YouTube API
  3. Update the stats in the infobox

Requires Pywikibot, Python 3, and a YouTube API key.

Page requirements

  • The page must have a Wikipedia YouTube personality infobox, either on its own or as a module in another infobox.
  • The script can only parse YouTube channel ID in the channel_url field. If the infobox uses channel_direct_url, both channel_id and channel_direct_url must be provided in the script (example in source code). Only one channel per infobox is supported.
  • Last update time is printed in the stats_update field. It must already exist and have a date formatted using the Wikipedia date template with the YYYY-MM-DD format.

Replace the subscribers, views, and stats_update fields in the Youtube personality infobox as follows:

| subscribers = {{#invoke:WikidataIB|getValue|P2397|qo=yes|qual=P3744|list=ubl|fetchwikidata=ALL|onlysourced=no|scale=a|noicon=yes}}
| views = {{#invoke:WikidataIB|getValue|P2397|qo=yes|qual=P5436|list=ubl|fetchwikidata=ALL|onlysourced=no|scale=a|noicon=yes}}
| stats_update = {{#invoke:WikidataIB|getValue|P2397|qo=yes|qual=P585|maxvals=1|list=ubl|fetchwikidata=ALL|onlysourced=no|noicon=no}}