What I want to accomplish is to know what the exact rules on Youtube (Youtube-sutdio) are for webscraping en using bots to automate data gathering for some channels (around 20). Youtube-studio in particular. In there terms and conditions I read the following:
"Access the Service using automated means (such as robots, botnets, or scrapers), except (a) when using a public search engine in accordance with the YouTube robots.txt file, (b) with YouTube's prior written consent obtained or (c) as permitted by applicable law."
So I went to: https://studio.youtube.com/robots.txt
When I read the file it seems to me that Youtube studio allows crawlers with a crawl delay of 0.5 seconds. So that means I can write a crawler that gathers information from the Youtube studio right? Since there are no url's disallowed. Maybe its an obvious question since I gave the answer myself, but I just wanted to check what you guys opinions were. Because I don't have a lot of experience with crawlers and it is very important that Youtube doesn't ban my IP or worse. Can you guys take a look and tell me if you think?
