YouTube Statistics
YouTube Statistics - Manual
YouTube Statistics software contains the following applications:-
YouTube Statistics - The main application used to fetch data from YouTube
and to display various statistics which can be exported to Excel. YouTube
Statistics can be run in two modes:
- Full mode - application is started with a full graphic interface where the user can manage video data, fetch new statistics, or export data to Excel.
- Silent mode - application is started as a console application. It just fetches current data from YouTube and exits.
- Migration Tool - A tool which enables migration from the previous (1.x) versions of YouTube Statistics to the new one.
YouTube Statistics - Full Mode
Full Mode allows you to manage video data, fetch statistics and export
data to Excel. When opened, the application will show the following screen:
As can be seen, the main window consists of the Toolbar at the top, and statistical data below. Available Toolbar commands are:
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- Exits application
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- Manage Videos
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- Manage Video Groups (add, edit or delete video group)
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- Go to YouTube and fetch current statistics
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- Export Current View to Excel
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- Export all data to excel
- Filter by group - Allows you to filter currently showed videos by groups to which they are assigned.
- Choose dates to compare statistics - Allows you to show data and difference in statistics for any of two dates for which there are data fetched from YouTube.
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- Allows you to change the application settings
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- Opens this page
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- Shows you the "About" screen
Manage Videos
To manage videos data press
button. A screen like this will appear:
There are several things you can do on this screen:
- Add Videos
- Delete Videos - delete all video data for the selected videos
- Change Group - assign group to a video for easier catalogization
- Edit Video Data - edit additional notes for the video
Add Videos
You can add new video data links by pressing the
"Add Videos" button. The following screen will appear:
As shown in the example, you can add (usually by copy/paste) any number of
video links. After saving the links you can return to the Manage Videos screen to
do additional settings for each video, or return back to the Main Screen, from
which you can download current statistics by pressing
"Go to YouTube and fetch the current statistics!" button.
YouTube Statistics - Silent Mode
"Silent mode" enables you to run YouTube Statistics from command line for a single purpose - to fetch data for all your YouTube links you have previously added to the YouTube Statistics application. This is most useful in cases when you want to fetch statistics regularly in order to have a more complete statistics history. In this case you can configure Windows Task Scheduler to run YouTube Statistics on specified intervals. Follow these links for further information on how to configure Windows Task Scheduler:
In order to run YouTube Statistic in "Silent Mode" you should pass '-s' as a parameter, as in the following example:
YouTubeStatistics.exe -s
Example of an Action screen for the "Silent Mode" on Windows 7 Task
Scheduler is given in the following image:
and an example of a Task screen for the "Silent Mode" on Windows XP Task Scheduler
is given in the following image:
YouTube Statistics will run in the background, without opening the user interface,
download current statistics from YouTube, and save them to data store. If
you open YouTube Statistics in "Full Mode" you will see the most recent statistics.
Note: YouTube Statistics cannot be run in "Full Mode" and in "Silent Mode" at the same time. If that situation occurs you will be notified, so you can act accordingly.