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i know that we can pull the current number of subscribers for a youtube channel using the data API, but is there a way to pull the subscribers we had in the past? for example 7 days back?

Thanks!

seko2014
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  • This sounds like a good thing to check the docs for: https://developers.google.com/youtube/2.0/developers_guide_java#Subscriptions Also it doesn't appear they support doing that. – Durandal Jan 17 '14 at 02:16
  • yeah i did check the docs but could not find a thing about this.. I just wanted to know if anyone have ever tried to pull that info or knows about a workaround to this matter. – seko2014 Jan 17 '14 at 05:06

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There is no built in way to do a historic look at your subscribers. What you could do is retrieve your list of subscribers on a given date, and persist it yourself somewhere. Then do it again next week and compare it.

The API returns a JSON response & the look up would look like this:

https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/subscriptions?part=snippet&mySubscribers=true&key={API_KEY_GOES_HERE}

You can read more here about the syntax & parameters in the docs: Link

Durandal
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  • yeah i think that would be the only possible workaround for now.. perhaps (hopefully) yt team would include that feature in a future release of the api. Thanks MagicMan. – seko2014 Jan 17 '14 at 16:51