Scrape the video IDs off of the youtube homepage with one click

YoutubeScraper.js

//---   Config   ---//
const config = {
  videoIdFinderStart: `"videoId":"`,
  videoIdFinderEnd: '"',
  timesToCheck: 180,
  videoIdLength: 11,
};

//---   Module Imports   ---// 
const axios = require('axios');
const fs = require('fs');

//---   Parse Function   ---//
function parse(text, start, end) {
    var find = text.search(start);

    let result = '';
    let complete;
    let inc = find+start.length-1;

    while (complete == null) {
      inc++
      if (text[inc] == end) {
        complete = true;
      } else {
        result += text[inc];
      }

    }

    return {result: result, startLocation: find, endLocation: inc};
}

//---   Request Youtube Home   ---//
console.log("Getting IDs")
axios.get('https://youtube.com')
.then(function(res) {
    const body = res.data

    //---   Set up stuff for loops   ---//
    let videoIds = new Array();
    let strippedBody = body;
    let iterations = 0;

    //---   Iterate   ---//
    while (iterations < config.timesToCheck) {
      const parsed = parse(strippedBody, config.videoIdFinderStart,config.videoIdFinderEnd);
      //console.log(parsed)
      strippedBody = strippedBody.slice(parsed.endLocation);

      //---   Extra Filtering   ---//
      if (!videoIds.includes(parsed.result)) {
        if (parsed.result.length == config.videoIdLength) {
          videoIds.push(parsed.result)
        }
      }

      //---   Count it as a found/checked ID   ---//
      iterations++
    }


    //---   Generate Result File   ---//
    console.log("IDs Found: ",videoIds.length)
    fs.writeFileSync('results.txt',JSON.stringify(videoIds))

})
.catch(function (error) {
  console.log(error);
})