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Roku should drop the API and just scrape YouTube from the client side. What's Google going to do, block everyone's home IP?
by tehwebguy 5y ago
Roku should drop the API and just scrape YouTube from the client side. What's Google going to do, block everyone's home IP?
- skinnymuch 5y agoThere is some stuff they can do. I forget the details as many years have passed. Microsoft was doing that for Windows Phone and there were some issues.
- jfrunyon 5y agoChange their layout so the scraper stops working? Block the useragent? Block other identifiable parameters of Roku's networking stack or HTTP stack? Sue them?
- sidpatil 5y agoIt'll end up being a cat-and-mouse game, similar to how youtube-dl is developed.
- warkdarrior 5y agoYouTube will probably do what Facebook is doing: randomize URLs and obfuscate the HTML weekly. It then becomes a game of catch-up for Roku, they'd always be one step behind.