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[–] HolyDiver@aussie.zone 13 points 11 months ago (3 children)

how do those youtube clients work? i thought YouTube was very closed source

[–] puppy@lemmy.world 36 points 11 months ago

AFAIK NewPipe parses the regular YouTube website and only extracts the useful bits.

[–] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No expert but I believe they access the API directly.

[–] FrameXX@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago

Some probably use an API of some sort, because SmartTube for Android TV even synchronises your watch history, subscriptions, you login with your google account etc...