Using Youtube Api to check if someone subscribed

Hello Bukkit!
I have been looking into this and could not find a answer if it has been done before! Does anyone know if you can use the Youtube Api to go with a Minecraft plugin to see if someone subscribed to your channel.
Thanks, Avery.

 

This might help.

 

rbrick I know how to use the api, I just don't know if they can connect.

 

Avery246813579 So long as you can access it with Java, then you can.

 

AdamQpzm Not really. There are certain Java things that do not work in Minecraft plugins.

 

Why not just give it a go, it wouldn't take long to find out!

 

Avery246813579 An example being?

 

AdamQpzm GUI lol

 

Avery246813579 Fun fact: You actually can make a functioning GUI with a Bukkit plugin It's just that a lot of users (those who don't have GUI access to their server's OS) wouldn't be able to see it. But it does work!

rbrick Well yes, but if it has no way of displaying the GUI, then Java couldn't do it, so it's not something you can do in Java but not in a bukkit plugin

EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.

 

Avery246813579 Well, you can make GET and POST request and use OAuth2 authentication with in java. So yes, you can connect through Java...

Well, technically the server would have to have a way of displaying the GUI, e.g X11 but yes if you can indeed have one

EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.

 

Avery246813579

The Bukkit plugins allow you to load arbitrary Java code, which, you can, in theory, use to run any Java code. That being said, many users won't be able to see a GUI, as Adam so aptly pointed out, however you can't open one on the client because there is no packet that a vanilla client recognizes as "GUI."

 

Do any of you guys know if there is a SubscribeEvent within the youtube api? (not to be confused with checking if someone is subscribed)

 

Like checking if someone subscribed at the moment?

 

Regablith
yup
so like if it was setup the same way it was in Bukkit

Code:java

public void onSubscribe(UserSubscribeEvent e) {
 
  String username = e.getWhoSubbed();
  String someString = e.getWhoSubbedTo();
 
}

something like that.

 

I assume so

 

Regablith
well me too but i looked thru the notes on googles site and couldnt find it

 

GeorgeeeHD They don't operate on an events system, so you'd have to periodically check yourself.

 

Regablith GeorgeeeHD

Bukkit's event system is something that is completely unique to Bukkit. Why would YouTube use it?

 

mythbusterma Well event-driven programs aren't unique to Bukkit, but I'll admit that Bukkit has its own events system. And an event system would be very unsuitable for YouTube.

 

AdamQpzm

"Bukkit's event system is something that is completely unique to Bukkit," not "Event-based programming is something that is unique to Bukkit." I didn't say the latter, and I've used other event based systems before, but I was saying that Bukkit's is unique to Bukkit, and does not conform to any event standards.

 

mythbusterma True, but others might take that to mean that there aren't event systems outside of Bukkit at all. Especially since there wasn't anyone really asking if they could have an event with Bukkit syntax, that was only done to demonstrate what it would look like if it was part of the Bukkit API.