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Re: Show HN: Tube – Minimalist YouTube

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Post by epiapp »

krrrh wrote: post #49

Hijacking this thread to share other approaches to YouTube without YouTube. This site takes a YouTube URL, extracts the audio and adds a link to your personal podcast feed on huffduffer. It’s great for loading a bunch of interviews, lectures, and other things that don’t require the video into your podcast player. https://snarfed.org/2015-03-07_huffduff-video

Another approach for YouTube without YouTube: subscribe to YouTube channels and playlists by RSS. I set up an app for this. Just head over to https://www.epiyoutube.com. Or whenever you're on YouTube and viewing a channel, user, or playlist, just add 'epi' to the url, right in front of 'youtube,' and there's your RSS feed.

Oh, and another approach: watch YouTube videos on Bing Videos. I actually use that more than I use my RSS app. Just make sure you've got your adblocker on, and you're all set.

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Post by stephengillie »

NetOpWibby wrote: post #43
stephengillie wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm writing a small JavaScript engine that converts websites to JSON, and displays JSON as websites. Since an entire site is described in the same JSON file, the whole site is a single download, and it rebuilds pages in the browser instead of calling the server - much faster, especially on mobile. If the browser had this small engine, it could render these sites natively.

Your project sounds very interesting, is it hosted somewhere?

The site is in alpha, at https://www.sparational.com. it has links to my GitHub, and to the site engine on S3. It started as a simple Node project to host a blog and a few random pages. Now, the goal is a single-page application, in more than one sense.

Re: Show HN: Tube – Minimalist YouTube

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Post by textmode »

I have a 2-line shell script using only sed and curl (or equivalent) that obviates any need for youtube-dl, python, third party websites, etc. Unlike youtube-dl it will not download videos where the uploader is some commercial media outlet that wants to prohibit downloading.

Re: Show HN: Tube – Minimalist YouTube

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Post by ealhad »

JulienRbrt wrote: post #20
lucb1e wrote: post #14

I started a project to make websites like this for all websites, but didn't get very far. I feel like pretty much every other website could use a lightweight and fast version. Creating those versions is a lot of boring work, though, as you're just parsing DOMs or APIs and there is no challenge to it. (Never mind when they change the HTML again.) Thanks for creating this one!

One thing I love to do is to block all the garbage of websites with uBlock Origin by adding my own filters. That does not give a result as good as this project but it quicker to do.

For this, you could use uMatrix (by the same author).

Re: Show HN: Tube – Minimalist YouTube

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Post by ealhad »

ucaetano wrote: post #40
sakuronto wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And there are always ad blockers, if you dislike ads but do hate Google!

And hate the content producers too!

All the content producers I follow have either a Patreon or a Tipeee page, which allows me to give them some money (probably much more than what they would earn if I watched the ads).

Re: Show HN: Tube – Minimalist YouTube

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Post by craftyguy »

doomrobo wrote: post #47
RodgerTheGreat wrote: post #25

For some time I've been tinkering with a script which manages my own fine-grained youtube subscription preferences, periodically scrapes various pages for metadata, and then as necessary extracts videos by using the youtube-dl utility. The end result is a directory on my machine which always has a few interesting videos to watch, ad-free, tracking-free, network connection free, using my favorite full-featured video p…

Not sure how much you'd benefit from it, given that you've already got a good setup, but I just made a website called HookRSSTube[0] that essentially proxies YouTube RSS feeds and replaces the video playback with HookTube[1] instead. I'd love to know if you have any comments or suggestions. [0] https://hookrsstube.com [1] https://hooktube.com

+1 for hooktube! I now use a greasemonkey script to auto-redirect all youtube.com links to hooktube instead.

Re: Show HN: Tube – Minimalist YouTube

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Post by iamdave »

chriswarbo wrote: post #45
RodgerTheGreat wrote: post #25

For some time I've been tinkering with a script which manages my own fine-grained youtube subscription preferences, periodically scrapes various pages for metadata, and then as necessary extracts videos by using the youtube-dl utility. The end result is a directory on my machine which always has a few interesting videos to watch, ad-free, tracking-free, network connection free, using my favorite full-featured video p…

youtube-dl is really cool, and supports loads of sites as well as just youtube. VLC can also play youtube URLs directly, although buffering can be annoying. There's also a Python package called "whitey" which provides an ncurses interface for searching youtube, and sending videos to e.g. mplayer or youtube-dl. If you want to "subscribe" without needing an account, every youtube channel provides an RSS feed (look in t…

VLC can also play youtube URLs directly

I legitimately did not know this, thanks for the knowledge share! Can it follow playlist s of videos?

There's a few video game streamers whose commentary and remarks are so funny and well written I find myself listening to them more like a podcast than watching the video, so I'm often queuing up playlists and having the background noise while doing house chores and the like

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