As mention bye @ndc85430 this is common task to do with Python.
Requests make it easy to do
A example YouTube API,usually with big API you get a API key(free here) to use.
Example find how many subscriber a channel has,so insert key and channel id with
As a standard usually get JSON back,it's a dictionary when use it from Python.
Requests make it easy to do
GET and POST request.A example YouTube API,usually with big API you get a API key(free here) to use.
Example find how many subscriber a channel has,so insert key and channel id with
f-string.As a standard usually get JSON back,it's a dictionary when use it from Python.
import requests
api_key = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
channel_id = 'UC5kS0l76kC0xOzMPtOmSFGw' # chess.com
response = requests.get(f'https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels?part=statistics&id={channel_id}&key={api_key}')
json_data = response.json()
print(json_data['items'][0]['statistics']['subscriberCount'])Output:285000