Development Log – 07/23/2020
A friend suggests that I could just send GET request to Youtube and parse HTML to get the videoIDs, he suggests I could use this instead of paying for Data API.
I think potentially this may work, but firstly, it is not scalable also not easy to maintain, secondly I took a look at the YouTube html, it is nearly impossible to figure out their HTML structure and take the videoIds, who knows how YouTube changes their site structure in the future. I think I will still go with the Data APIs for now even though they costs. If I have a good profit model, potentially I should be able to cover the expense.