2020-11-26, 22:58
So it looks like you can still pull a list of subscriptions from the API. Why can't you iterate through the subscribed channels and compile a list of videos? This would generate the same info as the "my subscriptions".
(2020-11-26, 22:58)pgordash Wrote: So it looks like you can still pull a list of subscriptions from the API. Why can't you iterate through the subscribed channels and compile a list of videos? This would generate the same info as the "my subscriptions".Because each step incurs a "cost" for every API access, and there's is a fixed upper limit on the total quota of API `points` for a given period of time.
(2020-11-26, 23:03)kurai Wrote:Going through the subscribed channels manually would mean more API calls...(2020-11-26, 22:58)pgordash Wrote: So it looks like you can still pull a list of subscriptions from the API. Why can't you iterate through the subscribed channels and compile a list of videos? This would generate the same info as the "my subscriptions".Because each step incurs a "cost" for every API access, and there's is a fixed upper limit on the total quota of API `points` for a given period of time.
Doing it alternate ways is certainly *possible* but very inefficient, from a programming and also API quota point of view.
(2020-11-26, 22:58)pgordash Wrote: So it looks like you can still pull a list of subscriptions from the API. Why can't you iterate through the subscribed channels and compile a list of videos? This would generate the same info as the "my subscriptions".
Quote:If you have 100 subscriptions and fetch 5 videos from each channel this will result in 114 API requests and use around 500 quota units (the daily limit is 50 million units). It will also take about 2 minutes to run if you don't parallelize the API calls.
Quote:The return values for this API have changed, and don't provide the necessary information anymore. Since it is undocumented, discontinued, and no longer accessible from a public interface; it is unlikely I'll be able to resolve this. Will look into it further.Doesn't look good ;( At least not for a quick solution...
(2020-11-26, 22:58)kurai Wrote: I'm having a hard time understanding why Youtube got rid of this feature.
Sure - I get that the whole Youtube video delivery service is just a convenient and incidental mechanism to use as a wrapper around Google's core business activity of shovelling ever more advertising at your eyeballs, but I don't really see how this change will be of any benefit for them in this regard.
Are they trying to unsubtly nudge their users into watching more of their promoted content or increase exposure to additional channels, rather than stick with content from ones they already subscribe to ?
Will this really have an impact on advertising revenue, or reduce costs of delivering the video service ?
Who the hell knows what the mysterious Youtube Black Magic Algorithm Overlord is actually trying to achieve here.
(2020-11-26, 16:35)Wanderlei Wrote: Its insane they remove key feature. Of all the feeds to pull they choose the main one most people would use.