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If you tube blocks their API, would it be game over for such clients? Or how does it work?
by wg0 3y ago
If you tube blocks their API, would it be game over for such clients? Or how does it work?
- sigmar 3y agoiirc it loads the page as if it were a browser, then scrapes and downloads the video.
- alok-g 3y agoWhat prevents YouTube from sending ad and the actual video in a single video download/stream?
- master-lincoln 3y agoProbably the cost of creating that stream realtime while ads spots are being bidded on
- lapinot 3y agoThey don't use official APIs (if you do you need to register a dev account and this sort of thing would most likely be against the TOS), just like yt-dlp they reverse engineer all sorts of apps youtube has (the webpage, the mobile webpage, the TV app, the android app, ...) and thus get all sorts of undocumented APIs to scrap from.