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From the NewPipe FAQ:
Does NewPipe use the YouTube API?
So that would mean it should be counted the same as a visit from a regular user, no? Unless YT tries to detect and filter out NP visits specifically.
Using the API "correctly" is likely a requirement for the view to be counted. Their media extractor circumvents that by intentionally not using their API and instead parsing their website for content. Then it establishes a connection to the stream using an internal API.
If you want a view to count you need to use an official client (or at least one with a legit API key). It not counting is a feature with NewPipe.
(Google probably knows the content is being streamed, but if you could just create synthetic views with a third party project, that would be bad for YouTube stats)
I would think that parsing the website would count the same as any browser-based page load, since parsing the website requires first fetching the page (probably using something like wget or curl under the hood). I dunno if non-logged-in page loads are generally counted toward the overall view count on a given video, though.
Page loads don't count as a view though, because otherwise things like search engine indexing would count as a view. It's only considered a view if the video is watched for at least 30 seconds.
They parse the website for feeds, search, etc. It is a java library and it looks like they are using jsoup to parse the dom.
Using the website and actually establishing a connection to a video are separate things. The search side of things is essentially a headless browser that is just aimlessly looking for videos. As far as YouTube is concerned nothing is played during this process.
When you decide to commit and watch a video, the NewPipe client establishes a connection to the video stream, which doesn't count for YouTube stats.