Comment by mmaunder
3 months ago
Scraping sucks. Imagine a broken API with new breakages every few weeks. Now imagine the provider hates you. Shout out to the team for what they do.
3 months ago
Scraping sucks. Imagine a broken API with new breakages every few weeks. Now imagine the provider hates you. Shout out to the team for what they do.
> Now imagine the provider hates you.
That’s the best part.
Exactly. I could never maintain yt-dlp. Must be exhausting.
I think being in a pitched battle with YT is kind of fun, if you enjoy that sort of challenge, and winning to boot.
I mean YT has perfect knowledge of its adversary's moves and a huge staff and they're still losing. It must at least be satisfying. Also its an important job.
> a huge staff and they're still losing.
that's because these staff are just there for a pay cheque.
The yt-dlp maintainers are passionate. You will find that the passion wins.
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