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I went through the article and it links to a repo at the end but I received a 404
Author here, the repo is for paying readers but you can redeem the article for free (just tell me and I'll give you the access)
Is it possible to read the whole post, without sharing my email?
Well the blog _is_ called "the web scraping club", maybe that's part of the challenge?
This is extraordinary reverse engineering. I particularly liked the part about using their own signer but outside of the apk. LLMs have effectively taken the Ads most for so many of these companies. I can just have an AI rebuild their website to a UI I like using this reverse engineered mobile API.
What data does this method retrieve?

yt-dlp already gets a lot of metadata like: duration, title, description, timestamp, view_count, like_count, repost_count, comment_count, save_count, etc.