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Re:Youtube-dlc – Download videos from YouTube or other video... by dewey on Saturday September 12, 2020 @04:39AM (#24450920)
youtube-dl works for thousands of sites, most of them with web scraping. What are you nitpicking about?
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Re:Youtube-dlc – Download videos from YouTube or other video... by DarthGhandi on Saturday September 12, 2020 @08:00AM (#24451800)
> What are you nitpicking about?

Verbatim from my comment: "the youtube.com undocumented api"

Thanks for reading.

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Re:Youtube-dlc – Download videos from YouTube or other video... by dewey on Saturday September 12, 2020 @08:10AM (#24451836)
The top level comment you are replying to and nitpicked the "scraping" verb doesn't say anything about YouTube or the YouTube API.
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Re:Youtube-dlc – Download videos from YouTube or other video... by outadoc on Saturday September 12, 2020 @09:12AM (#24452165)
Yes, thanks, I was using "scraping" in a more generic way, since I'm sure it does actually use scraping for most video providers.

In fact I'm pretty sure I've seen youtube-dl mention downloading the HTML page when using it with YouTube, so maybe it does even scrape YouTube.

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