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Doesn't seem like it would be easy without a firehose of metadata and I doubt Google would be amenable to providing that for a competing service. At this point
by crdoconnor 7y ago
Doesn't seem like it would be easy without a firehose of metadata and I doubt Google would be amenable to providing that for a competing service.
At this point to enable that kind of competition would have to have legislative protection (e.g. a law similar to the UK one mandating banks/gas/electric companies have to provide APIs).
- chrshawkes 7y agoSelenium, click a video, store the suggested, verify what has been and hasn't been watched, move to the next, do the same etc... etc... Seems pretty easy to build a bot to do such a thing.