Re: Emms and youtube-dl

[Rudolf Adamkovič]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

> Adding support for youtube-scraping is likely to be bad for
> maintenance. […] Perhaps you could access youtube videos via the
> invidio.us proxies. […] Perhaps peertube offers a documented API you
> could use.

For maintenance, I do not see much of a difference between using a local
scraper, such as 'youtube-dl', and using a remote scraper, such as
Invidious.  They both alleviate the pain of scraping and provide
documented APIs.  The question really comes down to ethics, and among
the mentioned programs, just PeerTube differs in this regard.

Rudy
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