Recently I’ve seen some games such as Bubble Gum Simulator, allow you to input your channel id and get in-game rewards if you’re subscribed to them. With that being said there are two things that need to be done. We need to make an API Key on Google and insert it into the module code.
How do I make my API key?
Step 1
Go to console.developers.google.com and click “Create Project”, and create a new project.
Step 2
When the project is created you will be sent to this screen and click, “Explore and enabled APIs”
Step 3
Click the “Enable APIs and Services” button
Step 4
Click the “YouTube Data API v3” button
Step 5
Click "Create Credentials"
Step 6
In the red boxes make those selections match mine. Then, click "What Credentials do I need?"
Step 7
Click the icon that’s arrowed to copy the API Key. Then, click "Done"
Setting up the module
- Paste your API key into the variable, “API_KEY”
- Paste your YouTube channel you want players to be subscribed to channel’s id
-- YouTube Subscriber API
-- author: OnlyRoids (Stephen)
-- date: 18 NOV 2020
--[[
Don't know what a channel id is?
* The channel id is the unique number/letter combination in the URL-
-of a YouTube channel.
Example:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO_8hF-oulap_6lXy0oXLjg
The channel id is:
UCO_8hF-oulap_6lXy0oXLjg
]]
---- ROBLOX SERVICES ----
local HttpService = game:GetService("HttpService")
---- PRIVATE VARIABLES ----
local MAX_RESULTS_PER_PAGE = 50
local TARGET_CHANNEL_ID = "" -- YouTube channel id player is supposed to be subscribed to
local API_KEY = "" -- Your API Key
---- URL'S ----
local URL = "https://youtube.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/subscriptions?part=snippet&channelId=%s&maxResults=%d&key=%s"
local NEXT_PAGE_URL = "https://youtube.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/subscriptions?part=snippet&channelId=%s&maxResults=%d&pageToken=%s&key=%s"
---- PRIVATE FUNCTIONS ----
function get_channel_subscriptions(channelId, pageToken)
local URL = pageToken and string.format(NEXT_PAGE_URL, channelId, MAX_RESULTS_PER_PAGE, pageToken, API_KEY) or string.format(URL, channelId, MAX_RESULTS_PER_PAGE, API_KEY)
local success, channelSubscriptions = pcall(function()
return HttpService:GetAsync(URL)
end)
if (success) then
return HttpService:JSONDecode(channelSubscriptions)
else
warn(channelSubscriptions) -- error
return nil
end
end
function get_page_numbers_left(channelSubData)
local pages = 0
local pageInfo = channelSubData.pageInfo
local totalResults = pageInfo.totalResults
local resultsPerPage = pageInfo.resultsPerPage
if (not channelSubData.nextPageToken) then
return pages
end
pages = tostring((totalResults - #channelSubData.items) / resultsPerPage)
if (string.find(pages, ".")) then
pages = tonumber(string.split(pages, ".")[1]) + 1
end
return pages
end
function check_if_subbed_to_channel(subData, targetChannelId)
assert(typeof(targetChannelId) == "string", "targetChannelId must be of type [string]")
for _, v in pairs(subData) do
if (v == targetChannelId) then
return true
end
end
return false
end
---- RETURN FUNCTION ----
return function(channelId)
local channelsSubscribedTo = {}
local pageToken = nil
local channelSubs = get_channel_subscriptions(channelId)
if (channelSubs) then
local pagesRemaining = get_page_numbers_left(channelSubs)
for _, v in pairs(channelSubs.items) do
if (v and v.snippet) then
table.insert(channelsSubscribedTo, v.snippet.resourceId.channelId)
end
end
if (pagesRemaining) then
pageToken = channelSubs.nextPageToken
for i = 1, pagesRemaining do
local pageChannelSubs = get_channel_subscriptions(channelId, pageToken)
if (pageChannelSubs and pageChannelSubs.items and pageChannelSubs.nextPageToken) then
for _, v in pairs(pageChannelSubs.items) do
if (v and v.snippet) then
table.insert(channelsSubscribedTo, v.snippet.resourceId.channelId)
end
end
pageToken = pageChannelSubs.nextPageToken
elseif (not channelsSubscribedTo) then
warn("Failed to retrieve channel subscription info")
return false
end
end
end
return check_if_subbed_to_channel(channelsSubscribedTo, TARGET_CHANNEL_ID)
end
warn("channel sub info has failed to load!")
return false
end
Using the module
-- The channelId argument is the players channel id you are checking (The channel id they input)
local YouTubeAPI = require(modulePath)
function PlayerIsSubscribed(channelId)
return YouTubeAPI(channelId) -- returns true or false
end
local isSubbed = PlayerIsSubscribed(channelId)
if (isSubbed) then
print("Player is subscribed")
else
print("Player is not subscribed")
end
