Checking the total number of views for up to 1000 videos at once

[Hirudov]

Unfortunately YouTube analytics doesn't allow you to group more than 200 videos for detailed review. But most of the time I need to review video groups with more than 300 or even 500 videos in them. In this post I will show you how to do detailed analytics of videos groups with up to 1000 videos.

There is a site called appspot which is powered by Google Cloud (sorry can't post links). So there is the youtube-playlist-analyzer app.
With the playlist analyzer I view the number of views for each video, the views trends, there is also possibility to do timeline view and see for each video when was uploaded and how it is ranking compared to the other videos and many more useful details. The only requirement is that you have the videos in playlist, but playlist are useful for other things as well, so there is no reason to not make playlists.

But for some reason the app doesn't allow you see the total number of views for the playlist. But there is a workaround for this (shown in the screenshot). With Google Chrome press Ctrl+Shift+I then click on the Console and enter the following text:

viewSum=likeSum=dislikeSum=commentSum=0;for(i=0;i<json_items.length;i++){viewSum+=parseInt(json_items['viewCount']);likeSum+=parseInt(json_items['likeCount']);dislikeSum+=parseInt(json_items['dislikeCount']);commentSum+=parseInt(json_items['commentCount']);}console.log('Total Views: '+viewSum+', Total Likes: '+likeSum+', Total Dislikes: '+dislikeSum+', Total Comments: '+commentSum);

and press enter at the end and Voila you have the total number of views for the playlist (works for up to 1000 videos), along with total likes, total dislikes and total comments.
I hope you find this post useful, and if there are any questions regarding the analytics or other, feel free to post here.
Happy analytics!

 

[xingcat]

Interesting stuff! Thanks for sharing.

 

[KiddieToysReview]

Thanks for sharing - very useful. I have a qn I pm'd you...