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For what it's worth, I built something very similar to this and it ran for 7 years until Google shut it down for violating the terms of service. Here's a blog p
by mcrittenden 5y ago
For what it's worth, I built something very similar to this and it ran for 7 years until Google shut it down for violating the terms of service. Here's a blog post I wrote with specifics, I case it also applies to your service. https://critter.blog/2020/08/04/a-farewell-to-toogles/ https://critter.blog/2020/08/04/a-farewell-to-toogles/
- Jgrubb 5y agoMy very first thought was "wonder how long before YouTube shuts this down somehow".. Also, old drupal crew represent
- mcrittenden 5y agoRepresent! I only stopped working with Drupal about 6 months ago.
- gopiandcode 5y agoI think the difference here is that Piped is using a custom backend server (piped-backend) which scrapes youtube html to obtain the video content/metadata (a-la invidious), while your app was using the youtube API. Google is allowed to shut your app down, but AFAIK can't police who can and can't consume their publicly available HTML.
- zibzab 5y agoOh, they definitely try to shut down these products by constantly changing the page structure or using javascript to obfuscate things: https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/3951 https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/3951
- animesh 5y agoI remember your project. It was written in AngularJS then to showcase its power. It was a very refreshing demo. Good luck.