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Is it possible to build a third party YouTube search by scraping a) YouTube and b) the user’s watch history? To me it seems like there’s some mid-to-low hangin
by toxik 4y ago
Is it possible to build a third party YouTube search by scraping a) YouTube and b) the user’s watch history?
To me it seems like there’s some mid-to-low hanging fruit there. YT’s recommender fails to understand when a video is part of a series so often I almost have to think it’s intentional. Also recommending videos I’ve already watched in my homepage feed? What?
What bugs me the most is that it wasn’t always this bad. Somebody changed it a couple of years ago.
- mtoner23 4y agoCertaily gotta be against youtube's TOS and it'll get shut down
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- corobo 4y agoYup. You're allowed to cache for a short while but you're not allowed to store and serve source: My YouTube API key was blocked for this sort of thing shortly after GDPR came into effect
- mbirth 4y agoInvidious was such project, IIRC.
- userbinator 4y ago...and still is. Unfortunately it does not improve the search results either, because AFAIK it only proxies them from YT itself.
- matbatt38 4y agohttps://github.com/tournesol-app/ https://github.com/tournesol-app/