The main instances are so unreliable that I just run my own.
Stepping away from open source
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#12For anyone unfamiliar, Invidious is just Youtube without ads and it lets you turn the screen off on mobile. It also lets you turn videos to an "audio only" mode for speed/bandwidth.
It's a viable alternative to Spotify IMO as one use.
It's basically free Youtube Red. Really sad to hear this, hope the creator is better off for it though.
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#13For anyone unfamiliar, Invidious is just Youtube without ads and it lets you turn the screen off on mobile. It also lets you turn videos to an "audio only" mode for speed/bandwidth. It's a viable alternative to Spotify IMO as one use. It's basically free Youtube Red. Really sad to hear this, hope the creator is better off for it though.
> It's a viable alternative to Spotify IMO as one use.
Indeed. I've been using it to play background music for D&D, no more annoying adds.
I may well wind up hosting an instance following this.
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#14Note that https://invidio.us is not the only instance, just the most popular one. You can host your own, or use one of the others: https://instances.invidio.us
Repository at https://github.com/iv-org/invidious
It's written in Crystal.
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#15The main instances are so unreliable that I just run my own.
I have never had problems with the instance from https://snopyta.org.
They seem to host a lot of other services as well, such as searx, nitter and bibliogram. I mainly use their searx instance and it is my primary search provider.
They also have hidden .onion instances iirc.
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#16Oh that's a shame. > The API will continue to function until October 1st, to give time for any services relying on it to migrate to other solutions. Aw no. I was thinking about using invidio.us in my own projects but now I guess I won't! I have need of a YouTube streaming server, backend only, which I can embed on a web page. I made my own with youtubedown and bash but maintaining it is a pain since YouTube is always…
There are many alternative instances, that's the great thing about projects like invidious.
For your own projects, I would recommend relying on multiple instances anyway because if one has downtime you could just use another one.
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#17Oh that's a shame. > The API will continue to function until October 1st, to give time for any services relying on it to migrate to other solutions. Aw no. I was thinking about using invidio.us in my own projects but now I guess I won't! I have need of a YouTube streaming server, backend only, which I can embed on a web page. I made my own with youtubedown and bash but maintaining it is a pain since YouTube is always…
There are many alternative instances, that's the great thing about projects like invidious. https://instances.invidio.us For your own projects, I would recommend relying on multiple instances anyway because if one has downtime you could just use another one.
Yes except the whole invidious project is rapidly being abandoned according to discussion on GitHub. The next breaking change in YouTube could break invidious forever if the project is unmaintained.
I just need to remember not to be lazy and to continue maintaining my fork of youtubedown. The only obstacle for me is I really don't use YouTube frequently so mostly it's a matter of remembering to do the necessary maintenance.
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#18"Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube" - TIL. Running an open source project can be exhausting, and a thankless task, almost all of the time. An active community and user-base helps, but it seems like omarroth has come to the end of the road.
As the maintainer of a relatively large OSS platform (OpenFaaS), I also wrote up about this last year too. For anyone who can't relate to omarroth's statement, it might help with perspective: https://blog.alexellis.io/the-5-pressures-of-leadership/
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#19Invidious is such a treasure and something I do not want to see go by the wayside. I would like to think, for whoever is available to work on the project with the time in energy, there could be enough support to keep this going via donations.
There have been other alternatives in the past and there will be other alternatives in the future. I've found the most reliable option is to run my own and not rely on someone else's service which can break at any time and disappear at any time. Interfacing with YouTube in any unofficial way is fraught with peril by its very nature because YouTube is always trying to stop it.
I'm glad that we have the option to self-host, and would be curious to learn more if you have other self-hosted youtube frontend options. As it stands now I think if invidious isn't maintained it will likely break soon. Newpipe breaks every other week and it's actively maintained.
Invidious I found to be uniquely and particularly convenient because, for a while at least, it ran like any other website and I could skip the steps needed to self host.
Re: Stepping away from open source
#20For anyone unfamiliar, Invidious is just Youtube without ads and it lets you turn the screen off on mobile. It also lets you turn videos to an "audio only" mode for speed/bandwidth. It's a viable alternative to Spotify IMO as one use. It's basically free Youtube Red. Really sad to hear this, hope the creator is better off for it though.
Sounds like a neat way to use Youtube without being tracked by Google analytics. I guess that's the next project I will try to run on my Raspberry Pi :)