[tagDiv] social counter and youtube

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foiovitor
#29268
Dec 1, 2014 at 9:34 pm

I’m trying to add an Youtube channel to “[tagDiv] social counter” widget. Problem is: the widget URL is relative to user and not to channel and my user have more than 10 channels associated.

The widget send to:
https://www.youtube.com/user/my_username
What I need:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/my_channel

Thank you,
Vitor

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Lucian
#29395
Dec 2, 2014 at 5:25 pm

Hi,

Unfortunately the plugin was designed to work with users only if you need another approach for this you should get someone to do it for you or you could try do it yourself, you can find the youtube URL here: http://screencast.com/t/djKDKJ5TF

Thanks

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foiovitor
#29396
Dec 2, 2014 at 5:29 pm

Thanks Lucian!

This explanation is enough to me, just a simple PHP edit!

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orcn
#32609
Jan 4, 2015 at 1:51 am

I have same problem.

The widget:
https://www.youtube.com/user/my_username

What I need:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/my_channel

I have changed the line which is showed by Lucian.
Old;
‘url’ => “http://www.youtube.com/user/$user_id”,

New;
‘url’ => “http://www.youtube.com/channel/$user_id”,

it still doesnt work. what should i do ? thanks

  • This reply was modified 11 years by orcn.
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Lucian
#32726
Jan 5, 2015 at 11:44 am

Hi,

Try changing it to 'url' => "http://www.youtube.com/user/your_channel",

Thanks

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deanhankin
#37413
Feb 6, 2015 at 4:50 pm

This method works

You can find the code in your file manager inside plugins/td-social-counter/shortcode/td-social-counter-010.php

Your above comment states user when it should state channel,

‘url’ => “http://www.youtube.com/channel/add your own channel in here”,

I added the long combination of letters and numbers that appears on the end of my youtube channel URL

Best

Dean

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miltonrodas
#39934
Mar 2, 2015 at 9:44 pm

Hello,

This did not work for me and I still have this issue. There must be another piece of code somewhere overwriting td_social_counter_010.php

As Lucian and others have suggested, I changed the code to ‘url’ => “http://www.youtube.com/channel/my_own_channel_code_here&#8221;, and the Social Counter is still sending me to “http://www.youtube.com/user/<channel code here” with the error “This channel does not exist”

It is a very stubborn issue. I have cleared by browser cache, used different browsers, my mobile, etc.

Please help! How can I get the social counter to work for YouTube?

(btw…I don’t think youtube assigns youtube.com/user accounts anymore, all are “channels” these days).

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miltonrodas
#39937
Mar 2, 2015 at 9:59 pm

SOLUTION…

When updating the URL in the code, you must update both files: http://screencast.com/t/Sqhn96YIPwXi …. Not just the td_social_counter_010.php

like this: http://screencast.com/t/vNRfUF0G

Then it will work

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