What is github-readme-youtube-stats?

If you have a YouTube channel and a GitHub profile, this project lets you show off your live subscriber count and total view count as small badges on your GitHub profile page. It creates the kind of colorful, pill-shaped status indicators you often see developers using to display things like software versions or coding skills. To use it, you paste a special web link into your GitHub profile. This link tells the project's server to fetch your current YouTube statistics and display them as an image. You need to provide two pieces of information: your YouTube channel ID and a YouTube API key, which is a special password from Google that allows the tool to safely look up your channel's numbers. The README walks you through exactly how to find both of these. Anyone who creates content on YouTube and also maintains a GitHub presence would find this useful. For example, a coding educator who posts programming tutorials on YouTube can use these badges to instantly show visitors to their GitHub profile that they have an established audience. It acts as social proof right where other developers and potential collaborators are already looking. You can customize the badges through simple text parameters added to the end of the web link. You can change the colors, swap out the YouTube logo for something else, choose different visual styles, and adjust how the numbers are formatted. You can combine these settings to make the badges match your personal brand or the visual layout of your profile. The project is built with PHP and is hosted on a free cloud service. The README notes that relying on a free tier can sometimes result in downtime, so it suggests hosting the tool on your own server instead. A major advantage of hosting it yourself is that you can hardcode your YouTube API key directly into the server files, which prevents others from finding and misusing your key.