Re:Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp
by siavosh on Saturday March 15, 2025 @02:29PM
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I looked into this as well since I find the YouTube algorithm terrible, but couldn’t find any API for exploration. Which makes sense they want to control what you watch and hence monetize. In a perfect world you could just pick an open source recommendation algorithm from a marketplace and YouTube would just be a wrapper around s3 buckets and some index.
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Re:Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp
by bluebarbet on Saturday March 15, 2025 @03:28PM
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An even more perfect world would not have S3 buckets.
Re:Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp
by toomuchtodo on Saturday March 15, 2025 @03:30PM
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You have to store bits somewhere, and an S3 compatible target optimizes for flexibility and optionality. It can be local (Minio), it can be remote, the client does not care where it is. Even the Internet Archive's API is S3-ish.