[YouTube-API] Re: Is crawling YouTube channels illegal?

Hello Ali,

You're asking me to interpret the law for you, and that's not
something I'm qualified to do.

Instead, please read through the YouTube and YouTube API Terms of
Service:

http://www.youtube.com/t/terms
https://developers.google.com/youtube/terms

Cheers,
-Jeff Posnick, YouTube API Team
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@YouTubeDev

On Mar 4, 8:12 am, Ali Al Lawati <ali4ev...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I need to extract some data from YouTube channels which are not directly
> available on their APIs, so that leaves me with the only solution to crawl
> YouTube pages.
>
> I am not trying to get private data or something like that, just need to
> get some information from channels to categorize it and provide added
> value, better search for channels.
>
> In this case will crawling YouTube channels be considered illegal?

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