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this post was submitted on 27 Jul 2023
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Invidious doesn't use YouTube's API. It merely requests content from YouTube either directly or through a proxy. So, I don't think it'll disappear forever unless the developers stop working on it. It's probably gonna be a game of cat and mouse where YouTube figures out how to break Invidious, and the devs keep finding a workaround.
You mean through an API
But pretty much in the same way as the YouTube's frontend requesting content from YouTube's backend. This is an equivalent of you loading a video on YouTube then going to developer tools and copying links from the Network tab. AFAIK all tools (Invidious, Piped, yt-dl) work this way.
Yes. The problem is, it's easy for google to break it again and again and again. I think we should just end Youtube
Right, the best way to win here is just not to play. Stop watching content on YouTube altogether. Find alternative ways to watch that content, or simply don't watch it at all.
So instead of scraping the website the easier solution is to end Youtube?
Who wants to call Google and give them the difficult news that Youtube isn't being renewed for another season?
Depending on the definition, loading a web page might me called an API, but that’s not what people mean when they talk about APIs.