Your channel's subscribers. Its card adds the video count and total views.
Tile: YouTube - in the widget picker under Social.
Before you start
- A YouTube channel, and a Google account for Google Cloud (free).
Steps
- Open the Google Cloud console and create a project, or pick one.
- Go to APIs & Services → Library, find YouTube Data API v3 and click Enable.
- Go to APIs & Services → Credentials → Create credentials → API key, and copy the key. It starts with AIza.
- In lumabar, right-click the dock, choose Widgets…, open Social and click YouTube to add it.
- Click the new tile on the dock. Its card opens.
- Fill in the card as shown below and press Connect. lumabar checks it with one real read - if anything is wrong, the card says what.
What to enter
| Field on the card | What goes in it |
|---|---|
| Channel | Your handle, e.g. @lumabar |
| API key | The key, AIza… |
Good to know
- You can restrict the key to the YouTube Data API v3 in Google Cloud - the tile needs nothing else.
If it doesn't connect
The card says what went wrong, in words like these:
“YouTube rejected that API key”
Copy the whole key again, and check the YouTube Data API v3 is enabled for its project.
“YouTube found no channel with that handle”
Check the handle - it is the @name on your channel page.
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Privacy
The key is stored only on this PC, is sent only to YouTube, and is used only to read. To remove it, click the tile and press Disconnect, or right-click the tile and choose Logout.