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youtube-dl works for thousands of sites, most of them with web scraping. What are you nitpicking about?

> What are you nitpicking about?

Verbatim from my comment: "the youtube.com undocumented api"

Thanks for reading.

The top level comment you are replying to and nitpicked the "scraping" verb doesn't say anything about YouTube or the YouTube API.

Yes, thanks, I was using "scraping" in a more generic way, since I'm sure it does actually use scraping for most video providers.

In fact I'm pretty sure I've seen youtube-dl mention downloading the HTML page when using it with YouTube, so maybe it does even scrape YouTube.