viewCount how many times has the video been
viewed?likeCount how many times has the video been liked?dislikeCount - how many times has the video been
disliked?favoriteCount - how many times has the video been
favorited?commentCount - how many comments on the video?knitr::kable(youtube)| video | viewCount | likeCount | dislikeCount | favoriteCount | commentCount |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| XN_QPRrJZAw | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| YkYnni-WuaQ | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Follow the steps from the above section to authenticate Google – make sure that the account you have authenticated for has access to the YouTube you wish to collect.
Go to a video you’d like to collect data from. The URL should look something like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=<YOUTUBE_VIDEO_ID_HERE>Extract the Youtube Video ID from the URL and put it in the
video_ids section of the
_config_automation.yml file. Delete the example IDs we have
put there as placeholders. Do this for each video you’d like to collect
data from and separate the IDs with commas.
###### YouTube ######
refresh-youtube: yes
video_ids: [ XN_QPRrJZAw, YkYnni-WuaQ ]
youtube_googlesheet:config_automation.yml
file, make sure that refresh-slido is set to “yes”.youtube_googlesheet
that you’d like the GitHub data to be saved to. This will only be
relevant if you’ve set data_dest to
google.In order to customize the data you are downloading from your YouTube
you can modify the refresh-scripts/refresh-youtube.R script
in your repository.
You can take a look at the metricminer
R package documentation for more details about the functions and
what is possible.
If you have a metric need that is not currently fulfilled by
metricminer or metricminer-dashboard we
encourage you to file a
GitHub issue with us and let us know about your new feature idea (or bug
report).