15 points
I’ll be honest i haven’t read their code. So invidious is just scraping youtube to pull all the data?
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According to the GitHub thread, yes. I think that’s how all of the open source apps work - youtube-dl, NewPipe, Invidious at least. Using the API would open them up to legal trouble because you have to agree to the terms to use the API. You don’t agree to the terms when scraping.
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