youtube-dashboard

To generate an offline YouTube metrics dashboard, run the atualizar.py script which gathers public channel and video data via Apify into a self-contained HTML file. The dashboard operates locally in your browser without requiring any external server or GitHub deployment.

Yes, you need an Apify API token to scrape YouTube channel metrics and video data. The script uses the streamers~youtube-scraper actor on Apify to collect public subscriber counts, views, and recent video statistics, requiring both the token and a YouTube channel URL or handle.

Yes, you can view the YouTube analytics dashboard without an internet connection because all video thumbnails are embedded as base64 strings within the HTML file. This offline functionality makes the generated dashboard ideal for client presentations and personal performance monitoring.

The YouTube video metrics collected for building this dashboard include channel subscriber counts, total views, and descriptions, alongside recent video statistics such as views, likes, comments, duration, and titles. All data is output to a local insights.json file.

A limitation of running local YouTube data scraping without server scheduling is that data updates require manual execution of the atualizar.py script. There is no automatic background scheduling, GitHub deployment, or server hosting involved in the dashboard generation process.