AppleScript can't get quoted form of api response - youtube-api

Question

I made an AppleScript earlier today that displays the subscriber count of a YouTube for Geektools, but I wanted it to be easier for people to use and tried to make it work off the name of the file (ex. taking subcount-PewDiePie.scpt and outputting PewDiePie's sub count), and I've made the inputting the name from the file name work, but its giving me errors when I try to take the number out of the api's response
the working (original)'s code
set apiResponse to (do shell script "curl -s 'https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels?part=statistics&forUsername=PewDiePie&fields=items%2Fstatistics%2FsubscriberCount&key=AIzaSyAEQGj2ZcDrTU0ZqzteD8eDVJwB9cpmvEo'")
on returnNumbersInString(inputString)
set s to quoted form of inputString
do shell script "sed s/[a-zA-Z\\']//g <<< " & s
set dx to the result
set numlist to {}
repeat with i from 1 to count of words in dx
set this_item to word i of dx
try
set this_item to this_item as number
set the end of numlist to this_item
end try
end repeat
end returnNumbersInString
returnNumbersInString(apiResponse)
The broken customizable code
set channelName to path to me as text
set oldDelims to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {"subcount-"}
set nameFilter to text items of channelName
set channelName to item 2 of nameFilter
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {"."}
set nameFilter to the text items of channelName
set channelName to item 1 of nameFilter
set curlLink to "https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels?part=statistics&forUsername=" & channelName & "&fields=items%2Fstatistics%2FsubscriberCount&key=AIzaSyAEQGj2ZcDrTU0ZqzteD8eDVJwB9cpmvEo"
set curlCommand to "curl -s " & (quoted form of curlLink)
set apiResponse to {do shell script curlCommand}
on returnNumbersInString(inputString)
set s to quoted form of inputString
do shell script "sed s/[a-zA-Z\\']//g <<< " & s
set dx to the result
set numlist to {}
repeat with i from 1 to count of words in dx
set this_item to word i of dx
try
set this_item to this_item as number
set the end of numlist to this_item
end try
end repeat
end returnNumbersInString
returnNumbersInString(apiResponse)
Every time I do the second one it outputs the error
Can’t get quoted form of {"{
\"items\": [
{
\"statistics\": {
\"subscriberCount\": \"76957805\"
}
}
]
}"}.
It's failing immediately after it gets the info from the website, which doesn't make any sense because none of the code beyond how it got the website link has been changed, can anyone help me resolve this

Answer 1

You've enclosed your do shell script command in braces here:
set apiResponse to {do shell script curlCommand}
Therefore, the apiResponse is now a list containing an JSON string, instead of simply a JSON string. Remove the braces so the line reads:
set apiResponse to do shell script curlCommand