From my understanding new pipe falls back to internal API or web scraping if the official API fails. Is skytube doing the same thing? Just checking what are the options available out there and see how are they different from each other.
if the official API fails
Newpipe doesn’t use Youtube’s API at all.
https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#description
NewPipe works by fetching the required data from the official API (e.g. PeerTube) of the service you’re using. If the official API is restricted (e.g. YouTube) for our purposes, or is proprietary, the app parses the website or uses an internal API instead. This means that you don’t need an account on any service to use NewPipe.
I see they are using peertube API. So do they web scrape?
They use PeerTube API only for PeerTube instances, for youtube (afaik) they use web scraping.
Used both at one time, Skytube didn’t work as well as newpipe on my devices. Maybe that has changed now since some time has passed. It doesn’t seem to be updated much on fdroid with the last update being 3 months ago and didn’t update for 5 before that.
It wasn’t a bit fan of the video interface, it felt like I was watching YouTube on the mobile site.
The big thing was being able to download the video and audio. Skytube only allows video downloads. If I want offline music, I can only use Newpipe. And Newpipe let’s me decide which quality and file I want per download. It also allows downloads from SoundCloud, media.ccc.de, framatube and Bandcamp.
From what I understand, Skytube is now using Newpipe’s api for the back-end by default, so take that as you will.
