Have you guys looked into building on top of NewPipe and similar?
That's what I'd do.
Fork, make sexy, add Nostr social interactions, integrate moderated communities.
Looked into it but for now I went the other route and built a tool to input a youtube channel and publish their vids/shorts as kind 21/22/34236
Needed a collection of video content to test ranking as 'child-safe'
Needed a collection of video content to test ranking as 'child-safe'