YouTube is slowing down for users with ad blockers in new wavefne8w2ah@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.world – 491 points – 6 months ago9to5google.com235Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all commentsShow the parent commenthow do those youtube clients work? i thought YouTube was very closed sourceAFAIK NewPipe parses the regular YouTube website and only extracts the useful bits.No expert but I believe they access the API directly.No,it's exactly parser. https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractorSome probably use an API of some sort, because SmartTube for Android TV even synchronises your watch history, subscriptions, you login with your google account etc...
how do those youtube clients work? i thought YouTube was very closed sourceAFAIK NewPipe parses the regular YouTube website and only extracts the useful bits.No expert but I believe they access the API directly.No,it's exactly parser. https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractorSome probably use an API of some sort, because SmartTube for Android TV even synchronises your watch history, subscriptions, you login with your google account etc...
No expert but I believe they access the API directly.No,it's exactly parser. https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor
Some probably use an API of some sort, because SmartTube for Android TV even synchronises your watch history, subscriptions, you login with your google account etc...
how do those youtube clients work? i thought YouTube was very closed source
AFAIK NewPipe parses the regular YouTube website and only extracts the useful bits.
No expert but I believe they access the API directly.
No,it's exactly parser. https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor
Some probably use an API of some sort, because SmartTube for Android TV even synchronises your watch history, subscriptions, you login with your google account etc...