Re:I created an alternative to the YouTube algorithm to stop...
by ment4list on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @02:56AM
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You could perhaps use Invidious's API?
Invidious is "an alternative front-end to YouTube" which can be self-hosted or you can use one of the popular hosted instances.
https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/ https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/wiki/API
I guess there is no way to have the same result without the need of the API key (I do my best to stay away from google)