Live channel numbers, on your page, on your key.
Visitors to your site type any channel and read its subscriber count, total views, the twelve most recent uploads, its strongest videos, engagement and upload rhythm, fetched from YouTube the moment they ask. It wears your colours, light or dark, and runs on a key held in your own account, so no other site’s traffic draws on your allowance.
Type a handle and read the channel here.
This copy reads through our key, with the same request a visitor’s browser sends on a customer’s site. Placed on yours, every reading runs through your key instead.
Your address in, your page back with the widget on it.
Type your website and a full-length picture of the page comes back with the widget laid over it, at desktop, tablet or phone width. Drag it where it would sit and pull its edge to size it. Nothing is installed and your site stays as it is.
Six readings, each one YouTube’s own figures.
One channel fills one screen. Every figure comes from YouTube at the moment of asking, or is a sum or ratio of those figures.
The headline figures
Subscribers, total views and the number of videos on the channel, as YouTube reports them.
The last twelve uploads
One bar per recent upload with the strongest picked out; hover a bar to read its title.
Recent average, in two halves
Average views per upload for the newer half against the older half. It is the only trend shown, because the API keeps no history.
The five strongest
The five best-performing of those uploads, with their views, likes and publish dates, each one opening the video.
Engagement and rhythm
Engagement and the days between uploads, worked out from the same figures.
Export and compare
A CSV of the reading, and a second channel laid out beside the first.
A channel that hides its subscriber count reads “Hidden”. Where YouTube gives no figure, the widget leaves the gap and invents nothing.
From your key to three lines on your page.
The handbook walks through each step with a picture for every click, and nothing here needs a developer.
Create your YouTube key
Switch on the YouTube Data API in your own Google Cloud project and create a key there.
Paste the key once
Paste it into the widget in iHayz. We test it straight away, keep it encrypted and never display it again.
Set the look
Pick the theme, accent, corners and the parts to show. The preview is the working widget at phone, tablet and desktop widths.
Paste three lines
List your websites, copy the embed and paste it where the widget belongs. It draws only on the sites on your list.
The widget sits in your page; the key stays in your account.
Three lines place it, the key you hold covers every reading, and each visitor gets figures fetched for them alone.
How it runs once it is on your site.
Five facts that hold on every website the widget is placed on.
Your own daily allowance
Google gives each key 10,000 units a day, and reading a channel fresh uses 3 of them. Nobody else’s traffic touches that allowance.
A cache you set
Each reading is cached for one, six or twenty-four hours, your choice, so a returning visitor draws nothing from the allowance.
The key stays off your page
Readings are made on your behalf from our side, and the key is encrypted at rest.
Only the websites you listed
On any other site a copied embed shows a notice that it is not set up there, and reads nothing.
No cookies, no tracking
Nothing follows your visitors. The one figure kept is a count of views for each site.
Pause it in iHayz and it stops on every site together. Change its look and each page picks up the change within the cache time, with no edit to your code.
Before it goes on your page.
Send any other question in writing; a written answer follows within one business day.
Do we need to write code?
No. Three lines go into your page the way a video embed does, and every setting lives in your iHayz screen.
Why our own YouTube key?
It keeps the allowance yours. No other site’s visitors draw on it, and with readings cached, one key serves a busy page through the day.
Does it ever show a guessed number?
No. Every figure is YouTube’s own, or a sum or ratio of those figures. The API keeps no history, so the one trend shown splits the recent uploads in two and sets the newer half’s average against the older half’s.
What does it do to page speed?
The widget adds two small files, loaded once your page is in place, and one request reads the channel. Your content never waits on it, and no outside fonts or scripts come with it.
Put live channel numbers on your site.
Your iHayz account has a Widgets screen: add the key, set the look, copy the embed. The handbook walks through creating the key.