Liberatube may be fucked soon.
GoldDominik893 opened this issue · 1 comments
The issue mentioned above states that the Legal team from YouTube has sent a Cease and Desist Letter to the People behind Invidious for apparently breaking the YouTube Terms of Service Policy, YouTube API Terms of Service and the Developer Policies. And Since Invidious doesn't use the API's because it is a scraper and the people also did not agree to the Terms of Service Policies, the policy violation claims are absolute bogus. I'm not saying that I speak Legalese but I'm pretty sure they can just do nothing about it since they don't have to. And if they are forced to do anything about it then this will mean that most of the well known Instances will be taken down. What this means for Liberatube is that because it is entirely dependant on Invidious to get data from YouTube this will basically stop Liberatube from working.
How I could fix this
I could build a scraper to get data directly from YouTube. This would be a good option as it would make Liberatube work entirely independently. I have got ChatGPT to give me a YouTube search scraper which would be a good start and could be shaped to get other information such as playlist data. Unless YouTube will take action against Invidious, I will not be working on any sort of scraper and will carry on using the Invidious API.
YouTube Search Scraper (Cropped ChatGPT output): discussions/#13
It's been 7 months i think it's fine.