How to get a simplified version of a Youtube subscriber count

So I am using the smiirl counter and was hoping to not have to try and scrub data after the fact instead just use google api directly... i got as far as this example below but it looks like it wont work for me if items and statistics are included, no attributes are identified for me to use in the smiirl interface...i literally can only have 1 line with subscribercount on it...is there a direct way to dig that deep?

currently getting

{"items": [    {"statistics": {"subscriberCount": "3"      }    }  ]}

what i need

{"subscriberCount": "3"}