📺 YTCounter — Social Media Counter for Minecraft

Display real-time YouTube subscribers, TikTok followers and Twitch followers directly in your Minecraft server — via PlaceholderAPI.

🌟 What is YTCounter?

YTCounter is a lightweight, fully asynchronous Minecraft plugin that connects your server to the most popular social media platforms. It fetches live subscriber and follower counts from YouTube, TikTok and Twitch, and exposes them as PlaceholderAPI placeholders usable in any plugin that supports PAPI.

Whether you want to show your channel growth in a hologram, a scoreboard, a TAB list, or a chat message — YTCounter makes it effortless.

✨ Features

📊 Real-time counters — YouTube, TikTok, Twitch (more platforms coming)
⚡ 100% Asynchronous — zero lag, never blocks the main thread
🔁 Auto-refresh — configurable update interval (default: 60 seconds)
🧠 Smart cache — no HTTP request on every placeholder call
🔌 Universal PlaceholderAPI support — works with any PAPI-compatible plugin
🖱️ Clickable links — clicking a counter value in chat opens the channel URL (Adventure/MiniMessage contexts)
🎨 MiniMessage & RGB support — fully styled messages
🗺️ Folia compatible — works on Paper, Spigot, Purpur, Pufferfish, Leaf, Folia
🔐 Permission system — granular control over commands
🔄 Hot reload — /counter reload without restarting the server
📦 Internal API — other plugins can query YTCounter programmatically
🌐 Expandable architecture — adding Instagram, Kick, Discord etc. requires zero changes to existing code

🔌 Compatible plugins (PlaceholderAPI)

YTCounter placeholders work out of the box in:

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📌 Placeholders

Main placeholders:

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Examples: %ytcounter_subscribers_DragonMC% → 1.234.567
%ytcounter_followers_dragonmc% → 98.765
%ytcounter_name_DragonMC% → DragonMC
%ytcounter_url_DragonMC% → https://www.youtube.com/@DragonMC
%ytcounter_raw_DragonMC% → 1234567

💬 Commands

Command	Description	Permission
/counter youtube	Register a YouTube channel	ytcounter.use
/counter tiktok	Register a TikTok profile	ytcounter.use
/counter twitch	Register a Twitch channel	ytcounter.use
/counter list	List all registered channels	ytcounter.admin
/counter remove	Remove a channel	ytcounter.admin
/counter reload	Reload config without restart	ytcounter.reload
/counter info	Show plugin info and status	ytcounter.use
/counter help	Show help	ytcounter.use

Aliases: /ytcounter, /ytc

🔑 Permissions

Permission	Default	Description
ytcounter.use	OP	Use /counter commands
ytcounter.admin	OP	List and remove channels
ytcounter.reload	OP	Reload the plugin
ytcounter.bypass-cooldown	OP	Skip command cooldown

🚀 Installation

Step 1 — Install PlaceholderAPI
YTCounter requires PlaceholderAPI. Download it from SpigotMC and place it in your plugins/ folder.

Step 2 — Install YTCounter
Place YTCounter-1.0.0.jar in your server's plugins/ folder and restart the server.

The plugin will create:

plugins/
└── YTCounter/
    ├── config.yml
    └── messages.yml

Step 3 — Configure API Keys
Open plugins/YTCounter/config.yml and fill in your API keys.

🔑 How to get API Keys

🔴 YouTube Data API v3

Go to Google Cloud Console
Create a project
Enable YouTube Data API v3
Create API Key
Paste it in config.yml:

youtube:
  api-key: "YOUR_KEY_HERE"

💡 Free quota: 10,000 units/day

🟣 Twitch Helix API

Go to Twitch Developer Console
Create app
Copy Client ID + Secret
Paste in config.yml:

twitch:
  client-id: "your_client_id"
  client-secret: "your_client_secret"

🖤 TikTok

No API key required (automatic mode)

tiktok:
  api-key: ""

⚙️ config.yml

# ============================================================
#  YTCounter - Configuration
# ============================================================
# How often (in seconds) the plugin fetches fresh data from APIs.
# Minimum: 30 | Recommended: 60-300
update-interval: 60
# --- YouTube ---
youtube:
  api-key: "YOUR_YOUTUBE_API_KEY_HERE"
# --- Twitch ---
twitch:
  client-id: "YOUR_TWITCH_CLIENT_ID_HERE"
  client-secret: "YOUR_TWITCH_CLIENT_SECRET_HERE"
# --- TikTok ---
tiktok:
  api-key: ""   # leave empty — automatic mode works without a key
# --- Cache ---
cache:
  enabled: true
  ttl: 60   # how long (seconds) a cached value stays valid
# --- Formatting ---
format:
  use-locale-format: true   # true = 1.234.567 | false = 1234567
  locale: "it_IT"           # change to en_US, de_DE, fr_FR, etc.
  loading-text: "..."       # shown while first fetch is in progress
  error-text: "N/A"         # shown if the API returns an error
# --- Logging ---
logging:
  level: "INFO"             # INFO | FINE (verbose debug) | WARNING
  log-requests: false       # true = log every HTTP request

📋 Quick Start

Register channels: /counter youtube https://www.youtube.com/@DragonMC /counter tiktok https://www.tiktok.com/@dragonmc /counter twitch https://www.twitch.tv/dragonmc

Use in DecentHolograms:

/dh line add MyHologram 1 &6YouTube: &f%ytcounter_subscribers_DragonMC%
/dh line add MyHologram 2 &bTikTok: &f%ytcounter_followers_dragonmc%
/dh line add MyHologram 3 &9Twitch: &f%ytcounter_followers_dragonmc%

Use in TAB:

header:
  - "&6Il mio server | YouTube: %ytcounter_subscribers_DragonMC%"

Use in FeatherBoard:

lines:
  - "&6YT: &f%ytcounter_subscribers_DragonMC%"
  - "&bTT: &f%ytcounter_followers_dragonmc%"

🔧 API for developers

Plugin raw = Bukkit.getPluginManager().getPlugin("YTCounter");
if (raw instanceof YTCounterPlugin ytc) {
    YTCounterAPI api = ytc.getApi();
    // Get cached count
    long subs = api.getCount(Platform.YOUTUBE, "DragonMC");
    // Register a channel programmatically
    api.registerChannel(Platform.TWITCH, "https://twitch.tv/dragonmc")
       .thenAccept(entry -> System.out.println("Registered: " + entry.getHandle()));
    // Force an immediate refresh
    api.forceRefresh();
}

🗺️ Supported Platforms

Paper 1.21.x — Supported
Spigot 1.21.x — Supported
Purpur 1.21.x — Supported
Pufferfish 1.21.x — Supported
Leaf 1.21.x — Supported
Folia 1.21.x — Supported

Java 21+ required
PlaceholderAPI 2.11+ required