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---
layout: page
title: Social Blade Sensor
description: "Instructions on how to set up Social Blade Sensor within Home Assistant."
date: 2018-04-23 08:00
sidebar: true
comments: false
sharing: true
footer: true
logo: socialblade.png
ha_category: Multimedia
ha_release: 0.69
ha_iot_class: "Cloud Polling"
---
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/).
## {% linkable_title 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}
## {% linkable_title Configuration %}
To enable the sensor, add the following lines to your `configuration.yaml` file:
```yaml
# Example configuration.yaml entry
sensor:
- platform: socialblade
channel_id: YOUR_CHANNEL_NUMBER
```
{% configuration %}
channel_id:
description: Channel id number optained from the URL when you access Social Blade web client.
required: true
type: string
{% endconfiguration %}
All the data will be fetch from [Social Blade]( https://socialblade.com/).