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Here are two use cases why I scrape YouTube.

- There is no external API for getting scheduled streams or when they have gone live AFAIK. This lets me be notified of new stuff to watch.

- The API for getting a channel's members is locked down. I applied for access to it 6 months ago and haven't heard anything about it from YouTube so I just scrape it to give members perks.

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Madness that they haven't gotten back to your access request in 6 months!

Why even bother having the API there - so much value can be added by people building on top of YouTube and other large sites, its a shame that most of these large sites do nothing to provide API access and people have to go out of their way to scrape them them...

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