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Scraping YouTube Data: What's Allowed and Best Practices

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Feb 20, 2024

YouTube allows limited web scraping for non-commercial personal use cases like academic research, but with significant restrictions and best practices to follow.

Does YouTube allow scraping?

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Feb 20, 2024

YouTube restricts data scraping to protect its platform and users. Exceptions include limited personal use and research purposes.

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