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		Fauntleroy on Dec 26, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I only use an iFrame to crawl and scrape content Some websites will detect the iframe and send nothing instead of the requested page. I happen to know from personal experience that YouTube is one of the sites that does this.

chii on Dec 27, 2019 [–]

> YouTube is one of the sites that does this.

that's because they have a proper iframe-embed url: https://www.youtube.com/embed/quyj70RogxI (instead of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quyj70RogxI )

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