I sub to channels and use Youtubes recommendations and new for you to find additional channels etc but I don't watch them I use Metube and a browser plugin and download the videos to a directory. I don't get all the privacy but I also am not giving them much watch data and I can avoid the ads.
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Freetube on desktop works beautifully. They just added playlists too
This is awesome!
on the minus side, it's electron and it doesn't have tabs, but it's a rather minor inconvenience for me
NewPipe on my phone. I don't have PC I can use rn but when I used to have one I'd just use my browser (mainly Firefox) with ublock origin to watch YouTube (without signing in).
I just watch it on youtube.com without logging in. Sacrificing convenience and using some frontend that only work if you pray hard is not something I want to do daily-drive
There are some periods where YouTube make changes frequently so that e.g. FreeTube stops working for some time, but for the most part it works reliably well. I would say it provides a much better convenience than watching on youtube.com logged out, as you have profiles, subscriptions, playlist and history. Including adblock, sponsorblock and dearrow, and granular control over what to show or not (comments, shorts, live etc.).
NewPipe or PipePipe.
Been using PipePipe for awhile now and love it. Unfortunately, recently it has not been able to load playlists 9/10 times. Very frustrating. Hopefully it gets a patch soon.
Any problems I've had with these apps has usually been solved by reconnecting my VPN.
I don't have a VPN.
Freetube on Linux, newpipe on android and maybe a private invidious instance.
I use a private Piped instance
Can you show your docker-compose? I've tried several times without succeeding 🤧
You can't just ask that. Not without at least taking them out to a fancy dinner first. Maybe a little dancing.
My bad 😁
Before anything, you'll want to create a folder for the unix socket: mkdir /var/run/ytproxy and chown it to your reverse proxy's user and group.
The Docker files:
compose.yml
services:
piped-frontend:
image: 1337kavin/piped-frontend:latest
container_name: piped-frontend
environment:
BACKEND_HOSTNAME: $API_ENDPOINT
depends_on:
- piped
restart: unless-stopped
networks:
- proxy
piped-proxy:
image: 1337kavin/piped-proxy:latest
container_name: piped-proxy
environment:
- UDS=1
volumes:
- /var/run/ytproxy:/app/socket # unix socket location
user: 1000:1000
restart: unless-stopped
networks:
- proxy
piped:
image: 1337kavin/piped:latest
container_name: piped-backend
volumes:
- ./piped/config/config.properties:/app/config.properties:ro
depends_on:
- piped-db
restart: unless-stopped
networks:
- backend_piped
- proxy
piped-db:
image: pgautoupgrade/pgautoupgrade:16-alpine
container_name: piped-db
environment:
- POSTGRES_DB=$DB_NAME
- POSTGRES_USER=$DB_USER
- POSTGRES_PASSWORD=$DB_PASS
volumes:
- ./piped/pgdb:/var/lib/postgresql/data
restart: unless-stopped
networks:
- backend_piped
networks:
backend_piped:
proxy:
external: true
.env
API_ENDPOINT= # no scheme prefix (ex. pipedapi.domain.example)
DB_NAME=
DB_USER=
DB_PASS=
To configure the reverse proxy (I use nginx), you can use Piped's recommended files with your domains. The linked repo also contains a template for the required config.properties.
Let me know if you run into issues, I'll be glad to help 🙂
I use YT-DLP to scrip the download of vids I want to watch and it drops them into Plex for me. I set it to run every 4 hours.
Oooh, this is interesting! How do you get the script to get latest videos from your subscribers?
So there's 2 files that go along with the main script: a config file and a download list.
The download list file is literally a list of YT channel URLs and any time I want it to get new channels, I add to the list. Conversely if I get tired of watching a channel, I comment it out or just delete it. YT-DLP just traverses the list.
The config is where the magic happens. That dictates how the file is named, quality you download at, location it's saved to, format, etc. You can incorporate SponsorBlock which is awesome and even DeArrow has an integration. I enjoy the logging feature so it doesn't re-download vids it's already snagged. Generally I'll tell it to get every video from a channel that's been posted in the last 15 days.
My destination for the files is a YouTube library folder I set up in Plex. Plex sees it just as another TV-like library and it pulls the metadata from the files, which are embedded by YT-DLP.
Hope this helps!
Very helpful! Thank you so much!
You got it. Good luck!
Can't speak to his method, but the jellyfin media sever has a YouTube plugin called Fintube that uses the above downloader to integrate YouTube content.
I just tried this on an Ultra.cc seedbox with yt-dlp installed, and the Fintube plugin configured to the right path for that, yet when I go to Dashboard > Fintube and click the Submit button to add a video to the download, nothing happens. Can't figure out what's wrong.
Maybe Jellyfin doesn't have the necessary write permissions to write the file to that folder, but I'm not quite sure how to change those on such a seedbox, if that's the case.
Any experience with this to share? Would the Submit button usually lead to a different view, or does it just stay on that video submission screen while the download happens silently in the background? The lack of action I experience when clicking it feels a bit awkward...
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Grayjay
Does it just stop playing sometimes? It's the only thing I don't like about it so far
Not foss
I didn't say it was, I'm just answering the dude's question
Newpipe or libretube
Grayjay on my Android phone. I like that it supports a lot of different services, and I have subs on Odysee, Rumble, and Nebula (I pay for a sub there). I sometimes download videos for offline use if I'm going to listen on my commute or something (no point in using up data if I don't need to).
On my desktop/laptop, I just use YouTube directly w/ uBlock Origin on Firefox (to block ads) without logging in. I don't watch much YouTube on my desktop/laptop, and when I do, I'll just look for a specific video or whatever.
I also have NewPipe installed on my phone for when I want to find something specific (i.e. background music or something), because Grayjay's search kind of sucks.
Not Foss so if that's something that matters to you I would recommend you look elsewhere
Grayjay is source available, which is better than nothing. I'd prefer FOSS, but the features make up for the poor choice of license.
So is Windows XP
That doesn't mean much
It's really not. Windows XP had its source leaked, it's not source available. Grayjay is source available, so I can see every new commit before it hits my phone. That's a pretty big difference, and it's the most important when it comes to public security audits.
You aren't legally allowed to do anything about a bad commit so it is meaningless
That doesn't follow. If there's a bad commit in Windows 10 or 11, I won't even know about it. If there's a bad commit in Grayjay, I can:
- not upgrade, or downgrade to an unaffected version
- report the issue on their issue tracker
- technically violate the license by patching it myself and building my own copy (probably fine provided I don't distribute changes)
I can do exactly none of that with most proprietary software, so this source-available license is much better than those. Again, it's not ideal, but considering it the same as every other proprietary software license is absurd.
youtube-local over a Mullvad (other services like Proton or IVPN are great as well) works really well for me
With invidious and in FreshRSS I use the youtube extension to use the embedded video player, you just need update this part of the code https://github.com/FreshRSS/Extensions/blob/master/xExtension-YouTube/extension.php#L153-L163
It easy just to replace for this:
public function getHtmlContentForLink(FreshRSS_Entry $entry, string $link): string
{
$domain = 'www.youtube.com';
if ($this->useNoCookie) {
$domain = 'www.youtube-nocookie.com';
}
$domain = 'invidious.personal.com';
$params = 'quality=dash';
$url = str_replace('//www.youtube.com/watch?v=', '//'.$domain.'/embed/', $link);
$url = str_replace('http://', 'https://', $url);
$url = $url . '?' . $params;
return $this->getHtml($entry, $url);
}
The only change is to use $domain = 'invidious.personal.com';
And add the parameter quality=dash
Seems there's also this one https://github.com/tunbridgep/freshrss-invidious
but haven't tried it
NewPipe
I use several of the suggestions above, but also for IOS (iPhone) I use “Firefox Focus” and it clears everything when I close it and I can watch ad free.
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