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mastax on Feb 10, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: The insane amount of backward compatibility in Goo...

I suspect the YouTube API is similarly simple. Search to get a lost of video IDs. Look up video ID to get thumbnail, title, description, list of video stream URLs.

But they still discontinued the old API and broke all the first-gen smart TVs.

ramshanker on Feb 10, 2018 [–]

Yea, I bought a smart Sony LED TV in 2011 with inbuilt Youtube. TV still works excellent, but Sony/Google had to retire the youtube app.

Guess it was because it couldn't support Ads?

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