title: YouTube needs to have an open REST API date: 2021 Sep 29 updated: 2024 Feb 2 *2024 Note: I don't care anymore. I'm keeping this around for historical reasons at this point.* Youtube needs an open Rest API. Here are some reasons: 1. It makes my life easier, as I don't need to write a billion lines of code, and not go thought the ***paid service*** known as google cloud console, to get an api key. 2. It means that you only need to use `fetch()` on it. 3. We don't need the most in depth api.