Scanning across ALL of youtube

[RoboPterodactyl]

Would it be hard to have the ability to scan EVERY video on youtube?

[Firecul]

Yes

[RoboPterodactyl]

Do you mean 'Yes. It be hard to have the ability to scan EVERY video on youtube' or do you mean 'Yes. I want this ability'?

[Firecul]

I mean unless you have direct access to the YT servers it's impossible.

[boywithkeyboard]

😂

[boywithkeyboard]

@RoboPterodactyl if you mean a single account, yes and no - you'd probably get ratelimited by the API thus it wouldn't really work. If you mean entire YouTube, then definitely not possible (but I think this shouldn't need to be answered anyway 😂).

[RoboPterodactyl]

I mean entire YouTube 😂😂😂

[RoboPterodactyl]

I did think about the API issue but if ThioJoe makes it use an embedded browser like the Chromium Embedded Framework that wouldn't be an issue. I did start a poll on this:
#1062 (comment)
Vote "Yes. Totally abandon the API and switch to using a browser" if you want to fix the API issue.

[boywithkeyboard]

@RoboPterodactyl, you can close this thread for good, because what you are trying to do is downright impossible.

[boywithkeyboard]

Also, scraping their website is probably against their Terms of Service and it's something they try to defend against according to this StackOverflow thread.