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How are private front-ends built without APIs? (lemdro.id)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm referring to projects like redlib or invidious.

I was thinking about doing something similar for a local second-hand marketplace and got curious. Redlib seems to use token spoofing to get past rate limits and Invidious doesn't even use the official YouTube API.

The only way I thought of, which would be slow, is to scrape the site (like you would with Beautiful Soup).

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Invidious does have APIs. People host invidious servers and the clients connect to them, similar to piped. I don't know anything about Redlib but it might work the same!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I'm referring to the fact that they don't use or have major rate limits on the APIs that they use for either Reddit or YouTube, respectively.