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With the amount of raw footage coming from YouTube any given minute, I'm not sure there are many companies beyond Google that could do it.
by jedimastert 7y ago
With the amount of raw footage coming from YouTube any given minute, I'm not sure there are many companies beyond Google that could do it.
- kjeetgill 7y agoThe hardest part of that volume is is the footage itself. Sure archiving/serving footage may be hard, but if you just wanted to index all the titles/creators/metadata and maybe comments, I don't think it'd be that hard, in terms of volume at least. Good clean access too it, especially if google is running any anti-scraping will be the harder part.
- chrshawkes 7y agoMost of that is in the HTML so one wouldn't even have to wait for JS execution on the page load. In fact, it's simple to download the entire page so you're not hitting up Google multiple times for each User. A few million hits over a few months and nobody will know right?