Youtube Channel Statistics Widget

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YouTube Channel Statistics Widget

Super simple dashing widget for displaying your youtube channels stats

Credit to ephigenia and jonasrosland for creating other youtube widgets that I pulled bits and pieces from
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    <li data-row="1" data-col="1" data-sizex="3" data-sizey="1">
      <div data-id="youtube_subscribers" data-view="Number" data-title="Youtube Subscribers" style="background-color:#e52d27;"></div>
    </li>

youtube_count.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'net/http'
require 'openssl'
require 'json'

# Super simple dashing widget for displaying your youtube channels stats
# Credit to ephigenia and jonasrosland for creating other youtube widgets that I pulled bits and pieces from
# Hugs and kisses to my loved ones.  Vote for Nader!

# Config
# ------
youtube_api_key =  ENV['YOUTUBE_API_KEY'] || 'YOUR API KEY'
youtube_channel_id = ENV['YOUTUBE_CHANNEL_KEY'] || 'YOUR CHANNEL ID'


  SCHEDULER.every '1m', :first_in => 0 do |job|
    http = Net::HTTP.new("www.googleapis.com", Net::HTTP.https_default_port())
    http.use_ssl = true
    http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE # disable ssl certificate check
    response = http.request(Net::HTTP::Get.new("/youtube/v3/channels?part=statistics&id=#{youtube_channel_id}&key=#{youtube_api_key}"))

    if response.code != "200"
      puts "youtube api error (status-code: #{response.code})\n#{response.body}"
    else
      data = JSON.parse(response.body)

      send_event('youtube_subscribers', current: data["items"][0]["statistics"]["subscriberCount"])
      send_event('youtube_views', current: data["items"][0]["statistics"]["viewCount"])
      send_event('youtube_videos', current: data["items"][0]["statistics"]["videoCount"])
      end
    end