How did they do that? (old YouTube, Rate Rix, etc...)

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I’m still getting my feet wet with the Roku and learning about streaming videos.

If I need to use a video for my private channel, I currently manually download the video using a Firefox plugin and store the MP4 file to another location.

My understanding is that YouTube is mostly FLV based, but their is a way to get the MP4 stream.
the private YouTube channel (which is now removed)

  • RateRix
  • 1080p showcase etc.

I’m curious to know (at a high level) how these Roku channels were able to stream content from Youtube since YouTube doesn’t make getting the MP4 link easy. I don’t think there is a static MP4 link to these videos.

PS, I’m not trying to recreate a YouTube channel.

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YouTube has an API. They have a lot of documentation for it.

-JT

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@renojim

Thanks. I incorrectly assumed Google Youtube intentionally making it difficult.