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YouCount / youcount.github.io

YouCount allows you to see the subscriber count of any YouTube user in realtime. It has been designed using the Material Design language and is optimized for mobile devices and older browsers.
https://youcount.github.io
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Site Not Responding! #12

Closed amberkakkar01 closed 3 years ago

amberkakkar01 commented 3 years ago

The site is not at all responding while entering the channel name.

TheCrinjeMasterJ commented 3 years ago

Yeah, me too! I used an embed for this in my website, but the number doesn't show up for this anymore.

for reference(meant for chrome browsers, computer): https://thecrinjemasterj.github.io/ (the box where it's supposed to be is on the left) It worked before, when I published the website(around summer 2020), maybe a more recent commit unintentionally disabled it?

TheCrinjeMasterJ commented 3 years ago

Maybe the commit on August 3rd?

AryaDeepanshu commented 3 years ago

The site is not at all responding while entering the channel name.

It's the API that is not working. image Here is the response of API: image

so clearly API is blocked. Try using your own API and thanks for addressing the issue. @20manas

20manas commented 3 years ago

Hey everyone. Sorry for not responding earlier. What @AryaDeepanshu has said, is indeed correct. Basically YouTube, on their own, started an audit of the API and now they're asking me to effectively remove most the content on the website. For example, you cannot plot the data on a chart; you can't even add two number and show them. I understand their reasons for not allowing such things. But I still don't want to effectively remove most the content.

Since I haven't removed the content, they have blocked the API which is why it has been showing a 403 error for a long time. The main purpose of the website was to show realtime subscriber count, but YouTube's API policies were updated after the whole Pewdiepie vs T-Series thing and now realtime subscriber count cannot be shown. So, to be honest, the sub count and embeds have become practically useless as they only show the approx count. Of course, this is the case with all subscriber counters on the internet.

Since effectively everything on the website was not functioning well and I was really busy, I didn't bother to put in much time to fix things. But then again, there is no real solution to these problems anyway.

If there's anything you all would like to suggest, I'd be happy to change things when I find time.