my @Counts = ();

my $vidcount = 0;
my $idees = '';
foreach my $vidid (@vidids) {
    if (!($vidcount % 50)) {
        fetchCounts($idees);
        $idees = '';
    } else {
        $idees .= ',';
    }
    $idees .= $vidid;
    $vidcount++;
}
fetchCounts($idees);

exit;

sub fetchCounts {
    my $idees = shift;

    if ($videes ne '') {
        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};
        }
    }
}