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I don't believe the view counter gets incremented when using any unofficial front-end/downloader.
by crtasm 5y ago
I don't believe the view counter gets incremented when using any unofficial front-end/downloader.
- boolemancer 5y agoHow would Google's backend know whether the traffic comes from their own frontend vs a utility like youtube-dl (assume for the sake of argument that the utility is trying to make the traffic look like normal YouTube traffic)?
- judge2020 5y agoYoutube proper does a lot of JS, eg. a view is usually only counted after ~30 seconds[0] and does other things like logging the current timecode so that it can return to that time in case the user clicks off the video and returns to it later[1]. 0: https://www.tubics.com/blog/what-counts-as-a-view-on-youtube/#:~:text=The%20user%20watches%20it%20on%20the%20platform%20for%C2%A0at%20least%2030%20seconds https://www.tubics.com/blog/what-counts-as-a-view-on-youtube.... 1: https://i.judge.sh/rare/Cherry/chrome_H0p9bAoLgy.png https://i.judge.sh/rare/Cherry/chrome_H0p9bAoLgy.png the red line is how far in i've watched.
- corobo 5y agoIf the actual video URL is somehow grabbable from the API you might miss whatever triggers a +1 view from the website in theory
- banana_giraffe 5y agoIt does, it shows up as a "Other YouTube features" for the source. Though, YouTube seems to do some aggressive deduping here, if I download from 5 different IPs, excluding the IP I'm logged into YouTube's services, I see 5 views. If I download 50 times from one IP, I see one view.
- crtasm 5y agoGood to know, thanks for the correction!