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Re: Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube

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Post by jszymborski »

ad404b8a372f2b9 wrote: post #68
jszymborski wrote: post #59

I've been consuming my YouTube videos via RSS and youtube-dl these days. I have a little python script that collects the video urls from the feed, downloads them, and then NewsBlur notifies me of the new videos. NewsBlur has become the way I find new academic papers (arXiv/journal RSS feeds), consume the news, webcomics, and YouTube videos.

I didn't know arxiv had an rss feed, I usually find interesting papers through reddit, twitter and paperscape. Do you do any filtering on the feed to find the good stuff?

No, but I've definitely thought of using sklearn's Naive Baye's implementation to give me paper highlights (a la Mendeley, minus Elsevier). You can train on paper abstracts you've previously found interesting/uninteresting.

Luckily arXiv RSS feeds are by category, so I scan the titles of all e.g. qbio papers for a day and add the interesting ones to my reading list.

Re: Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube

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Post by xxpor »

jszymborski wrote: post #59

I've been consuming my YouTube videos via RSS and youtube-dl these days. I have a little python script that collects the video urls from the feed, downloads them, and then NewsBlur notifies me of the new videos. NewsBlur has become the way I find new academic papers (arXiv/journal RSS feeds), consume the news, webcomics, and YouTube videos.

FWIW youtube-dl supports downloading from a channel directly, and with a flag can spit out a file with every previously downloaded video. So the next time you run youtube-dl itll just grab new stuff.

Re: Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube

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Post by hombre_fatal »

bestnameever wrote: post #6

We seem to be going from pirated movies and music to pirated youtube. Not really sure how I feel about that.

The HN zeitgeist answers:

- Artists need to find a new business model then.

- Artists should be hobbyists.

- If it's on the internet, it's mine for the taking.

Re: Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube

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Post by omarroth »

patchtopic wrote: post #5

Looks great, except the search seems very limited.

Would you mind clarifying what you mean? If you're looking for search filters you can use them using operators[0][1], similar to Google or DDG.

0. https://github.com/omarroth/invidious/wiki/Search-operators

1. https://invidio.us/search?q=type%3Aplaylist+sort%3Adate+musi...

Re: Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube

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Post by omarroth »

finnjohnsen2 wrote: post #63

How will this website not be killed by Google lawyers at any moment?

Essentially because it replicates the way a browser works, similar to youtube-dl. I would very much recommend taking a look through [0] for some more info, but one of the main goals of the project is to avoid use of any Google APIs. This also includes login, as mentioned in an earlier comment[1].

0. https://github.com/omarroth/invidious/issues/130

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21545348

Re: Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube

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Post by trickstra »

desdiv wrote: post #65
ekianjo wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is there to terminate if you browse Youtube without signing in?

When regular users visit youtube.com, they get a page with some videos on it. Regardless of whether they're logged in or not, there are videos there. Banned users visiting youtube.com will just get a text page[0] with zero video content. Google will use all the dirty tracking tricks to make sure that banned users remain banned even when their IP or device changes. [0] https://i.imgur.com/qTTGhhG.png

Incognito window, different browser, clear cookies... any of these will make you look like a new user to youtube. Just don't sign in of course.
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