App info

Last Updated

2020-09-21 00:30:47 UTC

Credits

Hosting and PostgreSQL database by Heroku.

The view count comparison chart generated with D3, the frontend was created with Bootstrap, and YouTube data obtained with YouTube Data API (v3) via Google APIs Client Library for PHP. The full acknowledgements for these softwares are listed here.

Notes

Project by Nicholas Currault. The source code is available on GitHub.

To conserve processor and network resources, this app should only update four times per day.

This web app is available in two views:

Updates

On 2017-03-17, an update removed consideration for Computerphile, as suggested on H.I. #79: From Russia with Love

Between 2015-05-31 and 2015-06-24, I updated to Google's new API (v3). This caused a few errors with the site, but it should be fixed now.

On 2015-01-06, an update added Brady's new channel, Objectivity.

On 2014-10-11, an update removed the consideration for Grey's second channel, CGPGrey2.