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crittermike / toogles

A fresher, less annoying interface to YouTube.
http://toogl.es
MIT License
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Re: Shutdown #31

Open exikyut opened 4 years ago

exikyut commented 4 years ago

Just learned about the API situation while scrolling your website's post history (after reading another linked article from HN). So annoying when that happens...

You may already know about https://invidio.us/, which provides a YouTube frontend by going in the opposite direction to what this project does, and HTML-scraping youtube.com.

I'm not sure exactly how one server (??) hits YouTube on behalf of apparently 35k users without being nuked, but... somehow... it lives.

Incidentally, while verifying I did indeed remember the website's name, I discovered that the author has hit burnout: https://omar.yt/posts/stepping-away-from-open-source

It seems the server-scraping approach scales (further clarification would probably be needed, and the details probably quite interesting) where the API approach, er, doesn't.

I have no particular investment in either project; I'm simply mentioning invidio.us in case you find it relevant/interesting.

cloudmemory commented 4 years ago

Has toogl.es been shut down permanently?

mePy2 commented 3 years ago

Any news?

crittermike commented 3 years ago

Yes, it's shut down permanently unfortunately. Here's some more info: https://critter.blog/2020/08/04/a-farewell-to-toogles/

fadster commented 3 years ago

google is slowly but surely destroying the Internet. :frowning_face: