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Using YouTube json instead of scraping

See original GitHub issue

https://m.youtube.com/results?search_query=[query]&app=m returns search results in json. Maybe using those results would be better than using bs4 (or regex) on the HTML results returned for a normal search (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=[query]&app=desktop).

Pagination might be an issue - how to get the next page for m.youtube.com results?

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Created 4 years ago
Comments:8 (4 by maintainers)

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SuperSandro2000commented, Jul 8, 2020

You should really think about using youtube-dl because it removes a lot of maintenance work keeping up with youtube.

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BrainDamagecommented, Jan 25, 2020

Why not rely on youtube-dl to get search results? 'ytsearch:query" gives a list of results in youtube-dl In principle if you fully exploit youtube-dl, you’d be able to support any side that the script does, without having to code them yourself. A quick search in youtube-dl gives:

youtube-dl --list-extractors | grep search
mailru:music:search
screen.yahoo:search
soundcloud:search
video.google:search
youtube:search
youtube:search:date
youtube:search_url