ViewStats API - PHP

Hello BHW family,

Today, I want to introduce you to the PHP library I developed for https://viewstats.com. Recently, I needed to pull data from Socialblade.com, but I faced several challenges that made this process quite difficult. I was frequently encountering issues with VPN and proxy access while scraping, and finding a suitable API service was also not easy (only a business API was available).

Therefore, I conducted research on ViewStats.com, which operates on a similar structure to that of MrBeast. However, during my investigations, I noticed a problem: while sending my requests normally, the responses I received were in an encrypted format. At first, I thought this was due to "gzip" compression, but it turned out not to be the case.

Upon examining the JavaScript code of ViewStats.com, I realized they were using an encrypt-decrypt mechanism. After deciphering this encryption algorithm, I quickly developed a PHP library and began retrieving all the data in JSON format.



Usage:



Some Endpoints:



Maybe if you have any projects on YouTube, you can use my library to create easy and user-friendly apps. You won’t have to deal with the annoying Google API anymore.

Github: https://github.com/peranetwork/viewstats-api

If you have any questions, feel free to DM me or write in this topic.
Thank you.

HI @PeraNETWORK, That's a great solution which I am planning to use it but I am more interested in how you figured out the encrypt-decrypt mechanism from the JavaScript code. Can you please explain the process of identifying this with screenshots or maybe a video.

Thanks

Great work, definitely usefull.

nice, health to your hands. but since you made it public, the site owner will change the encryption method. even “zainkhana 10x” can be the site owner : ) You can use innertube without apikey for the data you want to pull.

I am not the owner @Kokoin. I converted this code into JS to use in my application. Just asking for learning purposes, how he identified this. I agree PeraNETWORK should delete this, so I can work long term

What wait viewstats.com owner is mrbeast, did they hired you or what.