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Why can youtube not just give a micropayments backed API? Just charge a few cents per video download and be done with it.
by sharperguy 1y ago
Why can youtube not just give a micropayments backed API? Just charge a few cents per video download and be done with it.
- deleted 1y ago[deleted]
- eitau_1 1y agomeanwhile Youtubers: a penny per view would be 10x what Youtube pays us https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nloigkUJ-U&t=4851s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nloigkUJ-U&t=4851s
- kccqzy 1y agoThe YouTube RPM (revenue per mille) strongly depends on the location of the audience and the topic of the video. It could be anywhere from $0.5 to $20. That 10x figure could very well be true for that YouTuber, but it's also true that other YouTubers already earn more than a penny per view.
- trenchpilgrim 1y agoThey do. It's called YouTube Premium.
- pmdr 1y agoAFAIK Premium allows you to download to persistent browser storage. But is it DRM-free/open or usable format?
- Telaneo 1y agoIt's DRM-ed and somewhat broken.
- raphman 1y agoAccording to [1], the downloaded video is AES-encrypted. Decryption key is stored locally in an IndexDB. I tried building a Python script using plyvel [2], a Python module for reading IndexDB/LevelDB, some time ago but IIRC, it had trouble reading the Chrome DB. Maybe Google's dfindexeddb [3] works. I didn't try it, however. [1] https://github.com/Marsel-marsel/youtube-premium-video-downloader https://github.com/Marsel-marsel/youtube-premium-video-downl... [2] https://github.com/wbolster/plyvel https://github.com/wbolster/plyvel [3] https://github.com/google/dfindexeddb https://github.com/google/dfindexeddb
- yreg 1y agoIt's not though. You can't download an mp4 to use however you wish with YouTube Premium. And definitely not via an API.
- trenchpilgrim 1y agoNone of that was mentioned in the comment?
- exe34 1y agodid you miss the word "API"? it was there.