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If you want to make a legal youtube app, you shouldn't use any youtube apis. You can only access things that a browser can access. That's how newpipe does it, a
by bubblethink 8y ago
If you want to make a legal youtube app, you shouldn't use any youtube apis. You can only access things that a browser can access. That's how newpipe does it, and it works fine. I don't know if MS took that route.
- rahimnathwani 8y agoYou're saying that using Newpipe to download a video doesn't break YouTube's TOS?
- anticensor 8y agoYou do not download videos under standard license, only download videos under CC-BY-SA (which do have download button on the web).
- Iolaum 8y agoI don't know about Youtube's TOS, but Newpipe in it's github repo says that the app violates playstore TOS.
- ufo 8y agoIIRC it is because Play Store terms of service are incompatible with the GPL license.
- bubblethink 8y agoThere are plenty of GPL apps on the play store. There was some drama over vlc in the apple store due to GPL concerns, but I don't remember if there was real merit to that. In any case, newpipe's issue is different. For one, it doesn't show ads. So that would disqualify it from playstore anyway. Playstore is google's walled garden afterall. That doesn't mean that newpipe is doing something illegal.