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Calculate average number of views for a YouTube channel's visible videos
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const viewCounts = [...document.querySelectorAll('div#metadata-line span:first-child')].map((node) => {viewCount = node.innerText.replace(" views","");valueOfViewCount = viewCount.indexOf("K")==-1 ? parseInt(viewCount,10) : parseFloat(viewCount)*1000; return valueOfViewCount;});
console.log(viewCounts);
const sum = viewCounts.reduce(( previousValue, currentValue ) => previousValue + currentValue);
console.log(`${sum} / ${viewCounts.length}`);
console.log(sum/viewCounts.length)
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  • on a YouTube Channel page with videos listed
  • scroll down to add more videos to page
  • inspect to open console
  • run script in the console to calculate average number of views for videos displayed
  • console output shows the views in an array, and the calculation so you can double check

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