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voodooEntity • today at 8:01 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

Gl with that.

Some time ago i build defcon.videos (down now) which basically was a similar project just full of videos from defcon conferences. Google came at me quite fast, because by their terms of service its forbidden to store a page like this if using API or automated grabbing of videos from the index (which i did logically not manually porting 100s of videos and metadata). They call in an alternate search index which is forbidden by them. Also they claim if you pull video data via their api your only to store it for limited time.

So best of luck to you


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nlehuen • today at 8:58 AM

Yeah, worth checking the TOSes:

https://developers.google.com/youtube/terms/developer-polici...

https://developers.google.com/youtube/terms/developer-polici...

Understandable: creators often update their video metadata (title, description etc.) or make public videos back to private or unlisted, and it is in their own right to do this.

Third parties that copy data will cache stale versions even when the creator doesn't want to share them anymore. Seems fair that YouTube doesn't condone this.