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Re:YouTube-dl has an interpreter for a subset of JavaScript ... by isatty on Saturday September 10, 2022 @10:22PM (#32796312)
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.
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Re:YouTube-dl has an interpreter for a subset of JavaScript ... by Aperocky on Saturday September 10, 2022 @11:44PM (#32796650)
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.
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