I was sharing this here since I thought it was a great write up, but did not intend to pass it off as my own!
There is certainly always a good amount of push and pull, though my personal concern as a contributor to yt-dlp under another alias is more about archival of the underlying media rather than automating things like comments.
YouTube also uses an interesting scheme for authenticating requests for media as well which required implementing a very basic JavaScript interpreter within Python for yt-dlp too. I expect this kind of thing to continue to become even more common and complicated.
I was sharing this here since I thought it was a great write up, but did not intend to pass it off as my own!
There is certainly always a good amount of push and pull, though my personal concern as a contributor to yt-dlp under another alias is more about archival of the underlying media rather than automating things like comments.
YouTube also uses an interesting scheme for authenticating requests for media as well which required implementing a very basic JavaScript interpreter within Python for yt-dlp too. I expect this kind of thing to continue to become even more common and complicated.