From 7e5c79d15a0da32d45608b200b4b591673a33232 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sean Mooney Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 03:28:38 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Update socialblade.markdown (#9857) Streamlined the page a little bit. Corrected capitalizations in brand names, corrected some confusing info (at one point it refers to it as a "social blade channel ID" even though it's a YouTube channel ID). Fixed some typos, shortened instructions a bit, removed a duplicate line at the end (since it's mentioned in the intro already). Also in the example config changed "YOUR_CHANNEL_NUMBER " to "YOUTUBE_CHANNEL_ID" because you can use any channel, not just "your" own. Channel ID's contain letters too so "number" isn't really accurate, better to just say ID. --- source/_components/socialblade.markdown | 10 ++++------ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/source/_components/socialblade.markdown b/source/_components/socialblade.markdown index a9db5e45ba4..ddd2ce5ae46 100644 --- a/source/_components/socialblade.markdown +++ b/source/_components/socialblade.markdown @@ -10,11 +10,11 @@ redirect_from: - /components/sensor.socialblade/ --- -The `socialblade` sensor platform allows you get updates on a Youtube channel using your social blade channel ID. The sensor gets the subscribers and total views count from [Social Blade Website](https://socialblade.com). +The `socialblade` sensor platform allows you to monitor a YouTube channels subscriber count and total views count. The sensor retrieves data from the [Social Blade website](https://socialblade.com). ## Setup -To get the channel ID you can go to [Social Blade Website](https://socialblade.com) and search for Youtube channel by username, then select the channel and grab the ID from the URL. The channel ID will be the last part of the URL: `https://socialblade.com/youtube/channel/{channel_id}` +To get the YouTube channel ID, search for and select the channel on the [Social Blade website](https://socialblade.com). The channel ID will be at the end of the Social Blade URL: `https://socialblade.com/youtube/channel/{channel_id}` ## Configuration @@ -24,14 +24,12 @@ To enable the sensor, add the following lines to your `configuration.yaml` file: # Example configuration.yaml entry sensor: - platform: socialblade - channel_id: YOUR_CHANNEL_NUMBER + channel_id: YOUTUBE_CHANNEL_ID ``` {% configuration %} channel_id: - description: Channel id number optained from the URL when you access Social Blade web client. + description: YouTube channel ID. required: true type: string {% endconfiguration %} - -All the data will be fetch from [Social Blade]( https://socialblade.com/).