YouTube Subscriber i3 Blocks Module

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This was a fun little project spurred on by my compulsive need to refresh my subscriber count on YouTube. Now i can thankfully just look at my status bar instead of having to open a browser to get the information. This was all accomplished but using curl to get the html of my YouTube channel page, then using grep to pull out the line with subscribers on it and then using awk a couple times to parse and pull out that specific value.

The code for this is simple:

#!/usr/bin/env sh

SUBS="$(curl -s https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfhSB16X9MXhzSFe_H7XbHg | grep -i "subscribers" | awk -F\> '{print $19}' | awk -F\< '{print $1}')"

printf -v MSG ":%s" "$SUBS"

echo "$MSG"

It was a fun quick project that allowed me to make another custom block, but it also was driven by a practical purpose. Constantly inspiring to see the crazy stuff that bash and the command line can accomplish.

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