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XrXr / YoutubeSubscriptionChecker

A Firefox add-on that checks for new uploads from Youtube channels
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trying to add youtube channel with search doesnt work anymore. #38

Open helpvlc opened 4 years ago

helpvlc commented 4 years ago

My version of Youtube subscription checker v 2.5.3 isnt working when i put in a youtube channel name it just wont search to find the channel to add.

I have 44 youtube channels at the moment. but get 5 videos a day so most of them are not active allot

Im not sure what the problem is, in my testing phase i have the following addons active:

youtube checker, no script umatrix ublock adblock plus ultrawidify cookie autodelete..... and a few anti coin miners no coin no miner

which all of them have nothing to do with searching the net for a youtube link via your plugin

I set your plugin to be in the whitelist on cookie autodelete in case that was the problem It wasnt.

I have tried exporting the information into notepad and copying the wanted channel link part and adding the channel name into the id part then importing the lot back into the program THAT WORKS but i havent seen if it checks for the information yet. Very tedious though.

Please if you have any ideas as to why your program isnt searching so it can add the users to it i would appreciate a heads up please im bewildered at the moment.

Oh i think its working good finding new videos though.

So im not sure why the plugin isnt working to search add. i cant help you much more then i have so to recap:

its the searching part when you say search for dog or search for UCN64HIrZNqFQYZ2BuyY-4zg and it sits there spinning its wheel then nothing just spinning and spinning and........

Thank you for your time i hope you know whats going on im stumped.

XrXr commented 4 years ago

Youtube is putting a limit on the API key the addon uses to do searches and check for new videos. There is a daily limit and late during the day the addon basically can't talk to YouTube. I will try to ask them to raise the limit...

helpvlc commented 4 years ago

Ahhh so its youtubes api restrictions okay well i appreciate that answer.... Something thats basically out of your control Fair enough.

Anyway you can bypass it with your plugin using something like a headless javascript browser and make requests through that and allow people to enter in a few proxies to use on the headless browser to bypass the restrictions and grab the information using your plugin???? instead of the api.

It doesnt have to be enabled all the time just for if the api request takes longer then lets say 30 seconds then the plugin uses the headless javascript browser and scrapes each website with a request from the persons ip then from a proxy and go through the list of proxys then start again type of thing.

If not fair enough, i thank you for your response and thank you for your time as well.

On 1/17/20, Alan Wu notifications@github.com wrote:

Youtube is putting a limit on the API key the addon uses to do searches and check for new videos. There is a daily limit and late during the day the addon basically can't talk to YouTube. I will try to ask them to raise the limit...

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