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HaarigerHarald / android-youtubeExtractor

Deprecated: Android based YouTube URL extractor and downloader
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Legal question #171

Open andrzejwiech opened 3 years ago

andrzejwiech commented 3 years ago

I have a general question. Is extracting youtube URL and then playing it in other than youtube player legal? Also if it is, does that not violate and of google policies? Asking as I consider using it my app but fear rejection in app review.

Dolanpls commented 3 years ago

These ways of getting a YouTube URL violates 100% the policy of google, so you wont be able to upload your app to the store (you can, but some day will be removed)

andrzejwiech commented 3 years ago

Many thx @Dolanpls. What is the point of having this lib then? I guess other than "google play store" stores? And why 651 stars?

Dolanpls commented 3 years ago

You can upload your app into another market or even distribute your APK in your own web. This is the bad point of use this libs 😅 but if you dont want to pay the expensive YouTube API key limit, you only have these options

andrzejwiech commented 3 years ago

Right I see, I actually have other problem, as I am building Android TV app and there you cannot use youtube api. So I am only left out with option of playing trailer in webview based libs which comparing to native with extracted URL looks really bad. But well it is what it is. Thanks again.

andrzejwiech commented 3 years ago

On the other hand comment to authors, I think it should be clearly stated in lib description that it violates YouTube policy.

Dolanpls commented 3 years ago

I would tell you to look for another option because this repo seems to be abandoned

andrzejwiech commented 3 years ago

Which one is? At this point I use https://github.com/PierfrancescoSoffritti/android-youtube-player which is not Android TV dedicated so I have to tweak it a bit mostly with regards to DPAD handling.