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jeffbeeyesterday at 2:17 PM1 replyview on HN

You cannot afford to "bulk harvest" YouTube.


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Yolopixyesterday at 2:57 PM

Bulk harvesting doesn't necessarily mean downloading every video, there is still useful metadata. But in this case non-enumerable IDs are on purpose, it would defeat the "unlisted video" system.