Grabbing the current viewer count for youtube live streams

Question

I am looking to source the current stream viewers from the Youtube API v2 for live streams. This information seems to be available on Youtube live streams (\"102 Watching No

Answer 1

You can get the current user count via

https://www.youtube.com/live_stats?v={videoid}

Answer 2

Unfortunately, while that data is available in a backend that the YouTube web interface can access, it's not exposed at all via any API (YT Data API v1/v2/v3 or YT Analytics API) at this time.