foreach (@vidids) {
my $uri = "https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?part=items(viewCount)&id=$idees&key=$API_KEY";  ##$idees is the 50-max comma separated string of video IDs
my $result = get($uri);
my $json = decode_json($result);

for my $i( @{$json->{items}} ) {
push @counts, $i->{viewCount};
   }
$idees = "the next 50 elements from @vidids..." #and keep looping until all are processed 
}