[toxik]

Is it possible to build a third party YouTube search by scraping a) YouTube and b) the user’s watch history?

To me it seems like there’s some mid-to-low hanging fruit there. YT’s recommender fails to understand when a video is part of a series so often I almost have to think it’s intentional. Also recommending videos I’ve already watched in my homepage feed? What?

What bugs me the most is that it wasn’t always this bad. Somebody changed it a couple of years ago.

[mtoner23]

Certaily gotta be against youtube's TOS and it'll get shut down

[corobo]

Yup. You're allowed to cache for a short while but you're not allowed to store and serve

source: My YouTube API key was blocked for this sort of thing shortly after GDPR came into effect

[mbirth]

Invidious was such project, IIRC.

[userbinator]

...and still is.

Unfortunately it does not improve the search results either, because AFAIK it only proxies them from YT itself.

[matbatt38]

https://github.com/tournesol-app/