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submitted 2 months ago by governorkeagan@lemdro.id to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

I'm referring to projects like redlib or invidious.

I was thinking about doing something similar for a local second-hand marketplace and got curious. Redlib seems to use token spoofing to get past rate limits and Invidious doesn't even use the official YouTube API.

The only way I thought of, which would be slow, is to scrape the site (like you would with Beautiful Soup).

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[-] governorkeagan@lemdro.id 3 points 2 months ago

I'm referring to the fact that they don't use or have major rate limits on the APIs that they use for either Reddit or YouTube, respectively.

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