Solved Getting data from an external website

Hey bukkit community I am writing this because I'm in need of some help so I want to develop a plugin where a players (youtubers) subscriber count is displayed on a sign. But I want to get the data from the website here how can I do this so the signs auto update as well how do i get the data from the website

 

I don't think you can get it from a website like that. Try with some php api for returning YAML response, which will make it easier. For API take a look here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30723866/youtube-subscriber-count-with-youtube-data-api-v3. After receiving API response in YAML, parse it and only use the part that you need and then just use

Sign.setLine(index, subcount);

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@timtower
So how could I do this, using GoogleAnalytics and StatsManager?
https://gyazo.com/95bf7caa682f43e039da30c153418947

 

@MGlolenstine Still very confusing to me


@timtower Really not sure if this is what you mean

 

Well... With help of this website, you can get your code up and running. Even tho this website's telling you how to do it for standalone Java app, it should be the same. https://stackoverflow.com/questions...op-app-that-can-interact-with-my-websites-api

 

are you talking about the one I have highlighted ?
https://gyazo.com/e01ce0638758b9e596606d37f7870430

 

@YoloSanta
Here's what you need to do:

Create and obtain a Google API key (go to https://console.developers.google.com/projectselector/apis/credentials). Then you need to enable the Youtube Data API on the Dashboard of the API Manager.

Now, there are two types of get requests you may want to make. The first one is the main one to get the subcount:

https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels?part=statistics&id=<channelId>&fields=items/statistics/subscriberCount&key=<APIkey>

(replacing <channelId> with the channel ID, and <APIkey> with the previously obtained APIkey)

This will return you with a json response like this:

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{"items":[{"statistics": {"subscriberCount": "10"}}]}

From that you should have no problems extracting the subcount using some JSON library.

There is however a problem. If you don't have a channel ID, but only a channel username. This can be solved by using this request (basically the same as the other one, but "forUsername" instead of "id"):

https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels?part=statistics&forUsername=<username>&fields=items/statistics/subscriberCount&key=<APIkey>

(replacing <username> with the channel username, and <APIkey> with the previously obtained APIkey)

If you have any questions (such as how to make get requests in a proper manner in Java), feel free to ask!

 

@timtower @MGlolenstine @AlvinB
Thanks guys you've helped out!

 

I didn't help at all, but yeah anyday

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@MGlolenstine

 

Well... Did that even help at all?

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Well I tagged you for helping

 

What a vague answer jk thanks anyways... And remember that we're here to help!

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