YouTube Statistics
YouTube Statistics - application for YouTube video statistics
Overview
YouTube Statistics is a Free Software application which tracks down statistics for YouTube videos. It is designed to collect data for any video available on YouTube and present them in a statistical manner, with export to Excel possibility.
Download
Go to Download page to get the latest YouTube Statistics version.
Credits
Idea:
Radomir
Mihailović Točak
Design and Programming:
Nenad Zdravković
News
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19. December 2021
YouTube Statistics 2.7.0 released
New YouTube Statistics version (2.7.0) published with following changes:- Removed dislikes and all the pieces of data that depend on it (Rating, Average Rating, RMT Rating), as YouTube has made dislikes publicy unavailable (link) .
- Fixed likes being reported as 0.
- Increased database size limit from around 200MB to 4GB.
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14. December 2021
Like/Dislike/Ratings incorrectly showing as 0
Due to YouTube's decision to make the number of dislikes per videos publicly unavailable (https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/134791097/update-to-youtube-dislike-counts?hl=en), it is no loner possible to see the numbers of dislikes and raters in YouTube Statistics. Unfortunately, the code does not yet handle this unavailability of the dislike field in response from YouTube API properly, and incorrectly shows likes, dislikes, and raters as zero. There is no indication of when and if the fix (at least showing likes correctly, and removing raters and dislikes) will be available. YouTube has been progresively restricting more and more functionalities reducing the usefulness of tools like this, and an incentive to keep the project alive is diminishing for this reason. -
2. August 2020
YouTube Statistics 2.6.2 released
New YouTube Statistics version (2.6.2) published with single change - a bug which was causing the application to crash on the first-time run is fixed. -
17. May 2020
Get Channel Videos page added
Added the Get Channel Videos page where users with valid YouTube API Key can get list of links to the videos of a given channel. -
21. March 2020
YouTube Statistics 2.6.1
New YouTube Statistics version (2.6.1) published. Changes are:- After YouTube API Quota team revoked quota for YouTube Statistics, new version no longer ships with predefined API Key. If users want to use YouTube Statistics they need to register their own YouTube API Key, and accept any responsibility for using an application that is not compliant with Youtube API Services - Developer Policy (see "YouTube Statistics is no longer operational" news). Users will also need to enable YouTube Data API v3 for the project as well in the YouTube Data API console.
- "Published At" and "Duration" added to video data.
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16. March 2020
YouTube Statistics is currently not operational
YouTube API Quota team revoked granted quota to YouTube Statistics, rendering it no longer operational, due to being "out of compliance on the following Youtube API Services - Developer Policy: Policy E.1 (Handling YouTube Data and Content - Audiovisual Content)". Further destiny of YouTube Statistics is currently unknown, but it doesn't look very bright unfortunately. -
26. February 2020
Issues with fetching statistics
As a couple of users have reported, yts is facing issues with fetching data from YouTube. The fix is baking, please stay tuned. -
31. March 2018
YouTube Statistics 2.5.0 released
New YouTube Statistics version (2.5.0) published, with added "Export to Excel" for a single video and a couple of bugfixes. More info on Download page. -
31. January 2016
YouTube Statistics 2.4.1 released
New YouTube Statistics version (2.4.1) published. More info on Download page. -
27. December 2015
YouTube Statistics 2.4.0 released
Added number of comments and RMT's rating.
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11. May 2015
YouTube Statistics 2.3.1 released
This release contains fixes for performance issues when the application manages data for a big number of videos.
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7. April 2015
YouTube Statistics 2.3.0 released
New maintenance release is published. YouTube made YouTube API v2 (which previous versions had been using) deprecated and will shut it down on 20th of April. This release uses new YouTube API v3 so upgrading YouTubeStatistics is required. -
9. February 2014
YouTube Statistics 2.2.0 released
New bugfix release published. -
18. November 2012
YouTube Statistics 2.1.2 released
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12. June 2012
YouTube Statistics 2.0 released
New major release with several new features (thanks to all users who contributed with suggestions and requests) is finally released. -
1. January 2012
YouTube fixed non-updating number of views
YouTube finally started to update the number of views for videos again, so things went back to normal. -
24. December 2011
YouTube not updating number of views
A lot of users are reporting the issue with number of views not being updated for the last few days in YouTube Statistics software. However, the problem is that number of the views for great number of links is not updated on the YouTube itself. For example, for some videos that usually have more than 30000 views per day number of views are exactly the same as before two days. Number of likes and dislikes seem to be reported correctly. So, we'll just have to wait for YouTube to normalize things. Stay tuned for more information on subject... -
12. December 2011
Changed definition of YouTube Statistics application. -
25. July 2011
New YouTube Statistics version (1.0.4) published. More info on Download page. -
17. July 2011
New YouTube Statistics version (1.0.3) published. -
26. June 2011
Web site updated (Download page added).
New YouTube Statistics version (1.0.2) published. -
22. May 2011
Web site updated (Story and some other stuff). -
16. May 2011
New Web site published. -
13. May 2011
First stable version of YouTube Statistics published.
The story
The idea for creating this application came from
Točak,
during one of my guitar lessons with him. At that time he was collecting
various YouTube videos statistics and trends. For each of the videos he
followed he entered records of views, likes and dislikes for the current
day in an excel table. As this process became very tiresome because of so
many links, he had an idea to automatize the whole process, by creating
an application which would do that for him.
So, I found that
YouTube
API
contains all that's needed to collect statistic for YouTube
videos, and started working on this software application. After few iterations
and improvements, the application featured following functionalities:
- Collecting information (name, description, number of views, likes, dislikes) from YouTube for any valid YouTube link
- Keeping collected data in an integrated database
- Calculating differences in statistics for the requested time period
- Exporting selected data to Excel
The application is made in C# programming language on top of .Net 4.0 framework. Data is stored in an SQLServer compact database. As source code is open and available (see Project Space), the application can give developers an example of the way YouTube API can be used.