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Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 4 months ago

How are private front-ends built without APIs?

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How are private front-ends built without APIs?

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Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 4 months ago

I’m referring to projects like redlib or invidious.

I was thinking about doing something similar for a local second-hand marketplace and got curious. Redlib seems to use token spoofing to get past rate limits and Invidious doesn’t even use the official YouTube API.

The only way I thought of, which would be slow, is to scrape the site (like you would with Beautiful Soup).

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Don’t ever attempt to use regex for scraping.

Proceeds to implement a scraper in bash with grep and awk because it’s the only way i know how to
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  Why not at least use Python?

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