Comment by isatty
3 years ago
There is a reason Google is able to serve the amount of video bandwidth, and also a reason why there are no worthwhile youtube clones. Some amount of scrape protection is absolutely essential.
3 years ago
There is a reason Google is able to serve the amount of video bandwidth, and also a reason why there are no worthwhile youtube clones. Some amount of scrape protection is absolutely essential.
Seems like they ultimately failed, youtube-dl is available freely as a pip package, anyone with scraping intent would have been able to use it.