diff --git a/src/lib/numbers.js b/src/lib/numbers.js
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+const UNITS = new Map([
+  ['k', 1e3], ['тыс', 1e3], ['тысяча', 1e3], ['тысячи', 1e3], ['тысяч', 1e3], ['thousand', 1e3],
+  ['m', 1e6], ['млн', 1e6], ['миллион', 1e6], ['миллиона', 1e6], ['миллионов', 1e6], ['million', 1e6],
+  ['b', 1e9], ['млрд', 1e9], ['миллиард', 1e9], ['миллиарда', 1e9], ['миллиардов', 1e9], ['billion', 1e9],
+]);
+
+// "просмотров", "подписчиков", "views", "subscribers" and their other forms at the end of the text.
+const COUNT_WORDS = /\s*(просмотров|просмотра|просмотр|подписчиков|подписчика|подписчики|подписчик|views?|subscribers?)$/;
+const GROUPED_INTEGER = /^\d{1,3}(?:[ ,.]\d{3})+$/;
+const DECIMAL = /^\d+(?:[.,]\d+)?$/;
+
+// Reads "59 млн", "571 тыс.", "1.2M", "12 345" and the like; the whole text must be a count.
+export function parseCount(text) {
+  if (typeof text !== 'string') return null;
+  const normalized = text.replace(/\s+/g, ' ').trim().toLowerCase().replace(COUNT_WORDS, '').trim();
+  const match = /^(\d[\d ,.]*?)(?: ?([a-zа-яё]+)\.?)?$/.exec(normalized);
+  if (!match) return null;
+  const [, number, unit] = match;
+
+  if (unit === undefined) {
+    if (/^\d+$/.test(number)) return Number(number);
+    return GROUPED_INTEGER.test(number) ? Number(number.replace(/\D/g, '')) : null;
+  }
+  const multiplier = UNITS.get(unit);
+  if (multiplier === undefined || !DECIMAL.test(number)) return null;
+  return Math.round(Number(number.replace(',', '.')) * multiplier);
+}
+
+export function parseViews(text) {
+  if (typeof text !== 'string') return null;
+  if (/^\s*(no|нет) (views|просмотров)\s*$/i.test(text)) return 0;
+  return parseCount(text);
+}
diff --git a/test/numbers.test.js b/test/numbers.test.js
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+import { test } from 'node:test';
+import assert from 'node:assert/strict';
+import { parseCount, parseViews } from '../src/lib/numbers.js';
+
+test('parseCount understands Russian abbreviations', () => {
+  assert.equal(parseCount('59 млн'), 59000000);
+  assert.equal(parseCount('59 млн'), 59000000); // non-breaking space, as YouTube renders it
+  assert.equal(parseCount('571 тыс.'), 571000);
+  assert.equal(parseCount('1,8 млн'), 1800000);
+  assert.equal(parseCount('3,4 млрд'), 3400000000);
+  assert.equal(parseCount('123 тысячи'), 123000);
+  assert.equal(parseCount('1,8 миллиона'), 1800000);
+  assert.equal(parseCount('146 миллионов'), 146000000);
+});
+
+test('parseCount understands English abbreviations', () => {
+  assert.equal(parseCount('1.2M'), 1200000);
+  assert.equal(parseCount('1.2m'), 1200000);
+  assert.equal(parseCount('123K'), 123000);
+  assert.equal(parseCount('1.5B'), 1500000000);
+  assert.equal(parseCount('2.5 million'), 2500000);
+});
+
+test('parseCount reads plain and grouped integers', () => {
+  assert.equal(parseCount('37'), 37);
+  assert.equal(parseCount('0'), 0);
+  assert.equal(parseCount('12 345'), 12345);
+  assert.equal(parseCount('12 345'), 12345);
+  assert.equal(parseCount('1,234,567'), 1234567);
+  assert.equal(parseCount('1.234.567'), 1234567);
+});
+
+test('parseCount ignores trailing "views" and "subscribers" words', () => {
+  assert.equal(parseCount('59 миллионов просмотров'), 59000000);
+  assert.equal(parseCount('1 просмотр'), 1);
+  assert.equal(parseCount('571 тыс. подписчиков'), 571000);
+  assert.equal(parseCount('1.2M views'), 1200000);
+  assert.equal(parseCount('1.2M subscribers'), 1200000);
+});
+
+test('parseCount rejects anything that is not wholly a count', () => {
+  for (const text of ['', 'Wun Wun', '10 л. назад', '2 г. назад', '7 дн. назад', '3 нед. назад', '1,2 тыс. зрителей', '5 Minute Crafts', 'abc', '1.2', '1,5']) {
+    assert.equal(parseCount(text), null, text);
+  }
+  for (const value of [null, undefined, 123, {}]) {
+    assert.equal(parseCount(value), null, String(value));
+  }
+});
+
+test('parseViews adds the "no views" cases', () => {
+  assert.equal(parseViews('Нет просмотров'), 0);
+  assert.equal(parseViews('No views'), 0);
+  assert.equal(parseViews('59 млн'), 59000000);
+  assert.equal(parseViews('1,8 млн просмотров'), 1800000);
+  assert.equal(parseViews('1.2M views'), 1200000);
+});
+
+test('parseViews rejects dates and names', () => {
+  for (const text of ['10 л. назад', 'Wun Wun', '2 years ago', null, undefined]) {
+    assert.equal(parseViews(text), null, String(text));
+  }
+});