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Re:Show HN: YouTube Guitar Tab Parser by bstsb on Monday July 13, 2026 @06:27PM (#48899754)
as far as i remember only the Pro tabs are paywalled (the ones created professionally)? the community tabs are all freely available on web, and carry little restrictions on mobile
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Re:Show HN: YouTube Guitar Tab Parser by smalltorch on Monday July 13, 2026 @06:36PM (#48899856)
Exactly why I can get behind a scrape here. They are already freely accessable.

I don't like having to switch to desktop mode to transpose though. They want you to get the app to do it on mobile which is enough of a reason to make a special program to do exactly what I want.

Also, scraping chord charts is in a different catagory from tabs. I can't even actually read tabs but with a chord chart you can get close enough to noodle around and emulate. Good enough for my needs.

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Re:Show HN: YouTube Guitar Tab Parser by thorncorona on Monday July 13, 2026 @08:42PM (#48900908)
> Exactly why I can get behind a scrape here. They are already freely accessable.

I think in most cases it is the effort that is the gate. Ex. you can DDOS most public facing services simply by spamming AI.

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