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).
Proceeds to implement a scraper in bash with grep and awk because it’s the only way i know how to
Why not at least use Python?
I’ve always been searching for the time to learn python, but between uni and work i wake up at 5 and go back home at 10; + they where not going to pay me for this fix
Tldr; couldn’t be fucked to study a whole other language in my nonexistent free time for a fix that they wouldn’t pay me for anyways