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Browse FreshRSS like YouTube: "Youlag Theme for FreshRSS" (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by lent9004@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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"Youlag Theme for FreshRSS" provides a video-focused browsing experience for your RSS subscriptions. It tries to provide a similar experience to YouTube, primarily through its layout using CSS, but also a little bit of Javascript.

Git repo for more details: https://github.com/civilblur/youlag

In case you're not aware, "FreshRSS is a self-hosted RSS feed aggregator".

The idea is that you subscribe to content creators through YouTube's RSS feed https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id={id_goes_here}, then browse, watch, save to playlist ("label"), right within FreshRSS.

There's also third-party extension for FreshRSS that provides the ability to use Invidious, but as we all know, the public instances are unfortunately struggling quite a bit as of writing.

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[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 4 points 17 hours ago

"Youlag" lmao

[–] slug@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

pretty cool, i want to encourage this purely in the interest of building up a community of more interesting themes. that part of freshrss is so bland.

[–] lent9004@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

Hopefully this will spark some interest in that!

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

Does PeerTube offer RSS feeds?

[–] Quail4789@lemmy.ml 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Is it possible to incorporate dearrow into freshrss without writing my own extension? I've gotten so used to not getting clickbaited I can't browse youtube without it.

[–] lent9004@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

I have limited knowledge of what limitations extensions have at the moment, but considering FreshRSS is server side rendered, integrating DeArrow on a deeper level would be ideal (if possible). It would mean that the thumbnail and title you get when you load the page would immediately be the non-clickbait ones, and it would only need to run it once for each video (if cached).

I did however test DeArrow's API and it was very straightforward. However, running it as a client-side script would essentially mean that every video would have to be checked and "DeArrowed" on the fly, and it would do that for every page refresh. That might not be very performant for you, nor DeArrow's free API service.

In short, it should be possible, but not ideal. I'm personally interested in the idea as well, but I'm not sure if I'll have time to tackle this.

[–] pe1uca@lemmy.pe1uca.dev 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Does it apply it to all feeds? Or can it detect what feeds are actually Youtube ones?

[–] lent9004@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

It applies the theme across the entire instance!

I believe it could be done however, but it's likely more suitable as an extension, opposed to a "theme" that relies on client-side css/js. I haven't explored the documentations for extensions as I intended this to be a "quick" solution to get a youtube-like experience.