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Invidious

Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube

  • Audio-only mode (and no need to keep window open on mobile)
  • Open-source (AGPLv3 licensed)
  • No ads
  • No need to create a Google account to save subscriptions
  • Lightweight (homepage is ~4 KB compressed)
  • Tools for managing subscriptions:
    • Only show unseen videos
    • Only show latest (or latest unseen) video from each channel
    • Delivers notifications from all subscribed channels
    • Automatically redirect homepage to feed
    • Import subscriptions from YouTube
  • Dark mode
  • Embed support
  • Set default player options (speed, quality, autoplay, loop)
  • Does not require JS to play videos
  • Support for Reddit comments in place of YT comments
  • Import/Export subscriptions, watch history, preferences
  • Does not use any of the official YouTube APIs
  • Developer API

Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/omarroth
Patreon: https://patreon.com/omarroth
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BCH: qq4ptclkzej5eza6a50et5ggc58hxsq5aylqut2npk

Installation

Docker:

Build and start cluster:

$ docker-compose up

And visit localhost:3000 in your browser.

Rebuild cluster:

$ docker-compose build

Delete data and rebuild:

$ docker volume rm invidious_postgresdata
$ docker-compose build

Arch Linux:

# Install dependencies
$ sudo pacman -S shards crystal imagemagick librsvg

# Setup PostgresSQL
$ sudo systemctl enable postgresql
$ sudo systemctl start postgresql
$ sudo -i -u postgres
$ createuser -s YOUR_USER_NAME
$ createdb      YOUR_USER_NAME
$ exit

# Setup Invidious
$ git clone https://github.com/omarroth/invidious
$ cd invidious
$ ./setup.sh
$ shards
$ crystal build src/invidious.cr --release

On Ubuntu:

# Install dependencies
$ curl -sSL https://dist.crystal-lang.org/apt/setup.sh | sudo bash
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install crystal libssl-dev libxml2-dev libyaml-dev libgmp-dev libreadline-dev librsvg2-dev postgresql imagemagick

# Setup PostgreSQL
$ sudo systemctl enable postgresql
$ sudo systemctl start postgresql
$ sudo -i -u postgres
$ createuser -s YOUR_USER_NAME_HERE
$ createdb      YOUR_USER_NAME_HERE
$ exit

# Setup Invidious
$ git clone https://github.com/omarroth/invidious
$ cd invidious
$ ./setup.sh
$ shards
$ crystal build src/invidious.cr --release

On OSX:

# Install dependencies
$ brew update
$ brew install shards crystal-lang postgres imagemagick librsvg

# Setup Invidious
$ git clone https://github.com/omarroth/invidious
$ cd invidious
$ ./setup.sh
$ shards
$ crystal build src/invidious.cr --release

Usage:

$ crystal build src/invidious.cr --release
$ ./invidious -h
Usage: invidious [arguments]
    -b HOST, --bind HOST             Host to bind (defaults to 0.0.0.0)
    -p PORT, --port PORT             Port to listen for connections (defaults to 3000)
    -s, --ssl                        Enables SSL
    --ssl-key-file FILE              SSL key file
    --ssl-cert-file FILE             SSL certificate file
    -h, --help                       Shows this help
    -t THREADS, --crawl-threads=THREADS
                                     Number of threads for crawling (default: 1)
    -c THREADS, --channel-threads=THREADS
                                     Number of threads for refreshing channels (default: 1)
    -f THREADS, --feed-threads=THREADS
                                     Number of threads for refreshing feeds (default: 1)
    -v THREADS, --video-threads=THREADS
                                     Number of threads for refreshing videos (default: 1)

Or for development:

$ curl -fsSLo- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/samueleaton/sentry/master/install.cr | crystal eval
$ ./sentry

Extensions

Contributing

  1. Fork it ( https://github.com/omarroth/invidious/fork )
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
  4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
  5. Create a new Pull Request

Contributors