There are plenty of scrapers that use the YouTube API to get around using the actual app and allow you access to features normal locked behind the Red paywall.
But as far as I know, those programs just run their script through the YouTube servers, so whatever they push to the top is what you see on top.
None of the factcheck or restricted nonsense, however.
Youtube deliberately ruined their search engine earlier this year. Ostensibly in order to discourage misinformation about the Coronavirus, they changed it to push "credible news sources" for anything regarding current events. So now whenever you search for any news, political issues or current events, all you get are videos from mainstream corporate and government news channels. It's basically become another version of TV.
You used to be able to find raw video of things like controversial police shootings. Now they hide those completely and they only show you TV reports where they tell you their opinions accompanied by highly edited snippets of the videos.
They will still host a lot of the videos you want, but they won't let you find them. The links have become samizdat you must find by word-of mouth on forums and such, as if we've gone back to the early days of the Internet before effective search engines ever existed.
Sometimes you can get around it by sorting by view count rather than relevance. But you have to do that manually, and it only works if the video you're looking for is popular.
Just gotta start using BitChute
There are plenty of scrapers that use the YouTube API to get around using the actual app and allow you access to features normal locked behind the Red paywall.
But as far as I know, those programs just run their script through the YouTube servers, so whatever they push to the top is what you see on top.
None of the factcheck or restricted nonsense, however.
Youtube deliberately ruined their search engine earlier this year. Ostensibly in order to discourage misinformation about the Coronavirus, they changed it to push "credible news sources" for anything regarding current events. So now whenever you search for any news, political issues or current events, all you get are videos from mainstream corporate and government news channels. It's basically become another version of TV.
You used to be able to find raw video of things like controversial police shootings. Now they hide those completely and they only show you TV reports where they tell you their opinions accompanied by highly edited snippets of the videos.
They will still host a lot of the videos you want, but they won't let you find them. The links have become samizdat you must find by word-of mouth on forums and such, as if we've gone back to the early days of the Internet before effective search engines ever existed.
Sometimes you can get around it by sorting by view count rather than relevance. But you have to do that manually, and it only works if the video you're looking for is popular.
You can use duckduckgo and in the search add the following string before your search term...
site:youtube.com
based-er, but you can do better
Qwant is a better choice. DuckDuckGo is just google.