I want to get the number of subscribers of a YouTube Channel into a Google Sheet without using the YouTube API.
I did some research and found some examples but I'm still stuck.
The input is a url like this: https://www.youtube.com/@youtube
The output I want is: 39.1 million
In a Google Sheet I tried with IMPORTXML like these:
=IMPORTXML($A1,"//meta[@property='og:description']/@content")
and I can get the property of the page but as soon as I do the right XPath for the subscriber count (which works in the browser's console):
=IMPORTXML($A1,"//*[@id=""subscriber-count""]")
I always get an Error "Imported content is empty".
Looking at other examples in Stackoverflow I also found this:
=QUERY(FLATTEN(IMPORTDATA(A1)),"where Col1 starts with 'subscriberCountText:'",0)
And I receive this output:
subscriberCountText:{"accessibility":{"accessibilityData":{"label":"39.1 million subscribers"}}
But can't extract "39.1 million" properly from that.
Any help would be much appreciated.
=REGEXEXTRACT(QUERY(FLATTEN(IMPORTDATA(A1)),"where Col1 starts with 'subscriberCountText:'"),"([0-9,.,\s,a-z]+)subscriber")
Result: 39.1 million