diff --git a/ythdd.py b/ythdd.py
index 230b395..4d41621 100644
--- a/ythdd.py
+++ b/ythdd.py
@@ -4,10 +4,7 @@ from flask_sqlalchemy import SQLAlchemy
 from markupsafe import escape
 import requests, json, toml, time
 import views, downloader, ythdd_api, ythdd_globals, ythdd_db
-#from ythdd_db import db
 
-#config = toml.load("config.toml")
-#global app
 ythdd_globals.starttime = int(time.time())
 ythdd_globals.apiRequests = 0
 ythdd_globals.apiFailedRequests = 0
diff --git a/ythdd_api_v1.py b/ythdd_api_v1.py
index 4f7a6bb..4ab5992 100644
--- a/ythdd_api_v1.py
+++ b/ythdd_api_v1.py
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ def incrementBadRequests():
 	ythdd_globals.apiFailedRequests += 1
 
 def notImplemented(data):
+	# TODO: change list to string -> data, not data[0]
 	return 501, f"not recognised/implemented: {data[0]}", []
 
 def stub_hello():
@@ -29,13 +30,75 @@ def stats():
 	return 200, "OK", data_to_send
 
 def hot(data):
-	if len(data) <= 3:
+	#print(data)
+	if len(data) <= 2:
 		incrementBadRequests()
 		return 400, f'error: bad request. supply required arguments.', []
-	comment_count = ""
-	if data[1] not in ("video", "channel", "handle", "playlist"):
+	match data[1]:
+		case "video" | "channel" | "handle" | "playlist":
+			url_lookup = {'video': 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=', 'channel': 'https://www.youtube.com/channel/', 'handle': 'https://www.youtube.com/@', 'playlist': 'https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list='}
+			comment_count = ""
+			if len(data) <= 3:
+				incrementBadRequests()
+				return 400, f'error: bad request. supply required arguments.', []
+			if data[2] not in ("c", "nc", "lc"):
+				incrementBadRequests()
+				return notImplemented(data)
+			if data[2] == "lc" and len(data) <= 4:
+				incrementBadRequests()
+				return 400, f'error: bad request. limited comments (lc) requires an extra argument specifying amount of comments.', []
+			elif data[2] == "lc":
+				try:
+					comment_count = str(int(data[3]))
+				except:
+					incrementBadRequests()
+					return 400, f'error: bad request. {data[3]} is not a number.', []
+				videoId = data[4]
+			else:
+				videoId = data[3]
+
+			if len(videoId) != 11: # videoId sanity check
+				incrementBadRequests()
+				return 400, f'error: bad request. wrong videoId: {videoId} is {len(videoId)} characters long, but should be 11.', []
+
+			getcomments = True
+			if data[2] == "nc":
+				getcomments = False
+
+			try:
+				started = int(time.time())
+				extracted_dict = ythdd_extractor.extract(url_lookup[data[1]] + videoId, getcomments=getcomments, maxcomments=comment_count)
+				extracted_dict["took"] = int(time.time()) - started
+				return 200, "OK", extracted_dict
+			except Exception as e:
+				incrementBadRequests()
+				return 400, f'error: failed to get "{videoId}" ({data[2]}). {e}', []
+		case "related":
+			videoId = data[2]
+			if len(videoId) != 11: # videoId sanity check
+				incrementBadRequests()
+				return 400, f'error: bad request. wrong videoId: {videoId} is {len(videoId)} characters long, but should be 11.', []
+
+			started = int(time.time())
+			try:
+				extracted_related = ythdd_extractor.related('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=' + videoId)
+				extracted_related['took'] = int(time.time()) - started
+				return 200, "OK", extracted_related
+			except Exception as e:
+				incrementBadRequests()
+				return 400, f'error: unknown error while parsing {videoId}: {e}', []
+
+		case _:
+			incrementBadRequests()
+			return notImplemented(data)
+
+
+	'''
+	if data[1] not in ("video", "channel", "handle", "playlist", "related"):
+		incrementBadRequests()
 		return notImplemented(data)
 	if data[2] not in ("c", "nc", "lc"): # comments, no comments, limited comments
+		incrementBadRequests()
 		return notImplemented(data)
 	if data[2] == "lc":
 		if len(data) <= 4:
@@ -62,6 +125,7 @@ def hot(data):
 	except Exception as e:
 		incrementBadRequests()
 		return 400, f'error: failed to get "{videoId}" ({data[2]}). {e}', []
+	'''
 
 def lookup(data):
 	match data[0]:
diff --git a/ythdd_extractor.py b/ythdd_extractor.py
index 8c3b0ef..7ad2ed9 100644
--- a/ythdd_extractor.py
+++ b/ythdd_extractor.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/python3
-import yt_dlp, toml
+import yt_dlp, requests, json
+import ythdd_globals
 
 ytdl_opts = {
 	#"format": "bv*[height<=720]+ba", # to be defined by the user
@@ -14,11 +15,53 @@ ytdl_opts = {
 	"simulate": True
 }
 
-def extract(url, getcomments=False, maxcomments=""):
+def extract(url: str, getcomments=False, maxcomments=""):
+	if len(url) == 11:
+		url = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=" + url
 	if getcomments:
 		ytdl_opts['getcomments'] = True
 	if maxcomments:
 		ytdl_opts['extractor_args'] = {'youtube': {'max_comments': [maxcomments, "all", "all", "all"]}}
 	with yt_dlp.YoutubeDL(ytdl_opts) as ytdl:
 		result = ytdl.extract_info(url, download=False)
-	return result
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+	return result
+
+def related(url: str):
+	# WARNING! HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL, DUE TO BREAK ANYTIME
+	if len(url) == 11:
+		params = {'v': url}
+	else:
+		videoId = url.find("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=") # len() = 32
+		if videoId == -1:
+			raise BaseException
+		videoId = url[32:44]
+		params = {'v': videoId}
+
+	user_agent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; rv:130.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/130.0'
+	if ythdd_globals.config['extractor']['user-agent']:
+		user_agent = ythdd_globals.config['extractor']['user-agent']
+
+	headers = {
+		'User-Agent': user_agent,
+		'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/png,image/svg+xml,*/*;q=0.8',
+		'Accept-Language': 'en-US,en;q=0.5',
+		'DNT': '1',
+		'Sec-GPC': '1',
+		'Connection': 'keep-alive',
+		'Upgrade-Insecure-Requests': '1',
+		'Sec-Fetch-Dest': 'document',
+		'Sec-Fetch-Mode': 'navigate',
+		'Sec-Fetch-Site': 'none',
+		'Sec-Fetch-User': '?1',
+		'Priority': 'u=0, i',
+		'Pragma': 'no-cache',
+		'Cache-Control': 'no-cache',
+	}
+	response = requests.get(url, headers=headers, params=params)
+	extracted_string = str(response.content.decode('utf8', 'unicode_escape'))
+	start = extracted_string.find('{"responseContext":{"serviceTrackingParams":')
+	start2 = extracted_string.find('{"responseContext":{"serviceTrackingParams":', start + 1)
+	end = extracted_string.find(';</script>', start2)
+	extracted_json = json.loads(extracted_string[start2:end])
+
+	return extracted_json["contents"]['twoColumnWatchNextResults']["secondaryResults"]
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