Youtube_needs_a_Rest_API.txt

        
            
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            title: YouTube needs to have an open REST API
        
            
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            date: 2021 Sep 29
        
            
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            updated: 2024 Feb 2
        
            
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            *2024 Note: I don't care anymore. I'm keeping this around for historical reasons at this point.*
        
            
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            Youtube needs an open Rest API. Here are some reasons:
        
            
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            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.
        
            
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            2. It means that you only need to use `fetch()` on it.
        
            
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            3. We don't need the most in depth api.
        
            
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