diff --git a/manager/setup.go b/manager/setup.go
index 17de7fe..e61768e 100644
--- a/manager/setup.go
+++ b/manager/setup.go
@@ -73,11 +73,7 @@ func (s *Sync) walletSetup() error {
 	}
 	log.Debugf("Starting balance is %.4f", balance)
 
-	videosOnYoutube, err := ytapi.CountVideosInChannel(s.DbChannelData.ChannelId)
-	if err != nil {
-		logUtils.SendErrorToSlack(errors.FullTrace(errors.Prefix("failed to get video count through socialblade. Falling back to API count", err)))
-		videosOnYoutube = int(s.DbChannelData.TotalVideos)
-	}
+	videosOnYoutube := int(s.DbChannelData.TotalVideos)
 
 	log.Debugf("Source channel has %d videos", videosOnYoutube)
 	if videosOnYoutube == 0 {
diff --git a/ytapi/ytapi.go b/ytapi/ytapi.go
index 9cb2acf..575e82e 100644
--- a/ytapi/ytapi.go
+++ b/ytapi/ytapi.go
@@ -123,15 +123,23 @@ func GetVideosToSync(config *sdk.APIConfig, channelID string, syncedVideos map[s
 	return videos, nil
 }
 
+// CountVideosInChannel is unused for now... keeping it here just in case
 func CountVideosInChannel(channelID string) (int, error) {
-	res, err := http.Get("https://socialblade.com/youtube/channel/" + channelID)
+	url := "https://socialblade.com/youtube/channel/" + channelID
+
+	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)
+
+	req.Header.Add("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/83.0.4103.116 Safari/537.36")
+	req.Header.Add("Accept", "*/*")
+	req.Header.Add("Host", "socialblade.com")
+
+	res, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
 	if err != nil {
-		return 0, err
+		return 0, errors.Err(err)
 	}
 	defer res.Body.Close()
 
 	var line string
-
 	scanner := bufio.NewScanner(res.Body)
 	for scanner.Scan() {
 		if strings.Contains(scanner.Text(), "youtube-stats-header-uploads") {