Stepping away from open source
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Re: Stepping away from open source
#2I think the original title, “Stepping away from open source,” works better here.
Re: Stepping away from open source
#3Oh 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 changing ciphers and also I forked youtubedown which means I need to adapt my changes to new versions when I upgrade.
So I was thinking of ditching my own and adopting an existing service. Trouble is existing services tend to stop existing. I made my own YouTube streaming server in the first place because I was using HMA YouTube proxy which was always breaking.
So this is a great reminder to me to keep maintaining my own YouTube streaming server.
[I'm using a different VPN today! Is it IP banned?! I don't know. Will this comment be [dead] on arrival?? I don't know!!]
Re: Stepping away from open source
#4Invidious 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.
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#5Can someone explain what this did? I visited the site but it just seems to be a random collection of videos.
Re: Stepping away from open source
#6Invidious 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.
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#7I hadn't heard of invidious before, and it's not clear what it is when visiting Invidio.us. so for others that are curious:
https://github.com/iv-org/invidious
> Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube
Re: Stepping away from open source
#8Can someone explain what this did? I visited the site but it just seems to be a random collection of videos.
It's an alternative front end for YouTube. A rather nice one at that.
Re: Stepping away from open source
#9Here is the github issue thread: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/1320
Hopefully the community will pick it up and continue development. Projects like invidious, nitter and bibliogram have turned clicking youtube, twitter and instagram links into something I actively avoid (especially twitter which for which some thing's always gone wrong and I have to refresh) to being a joy to browse again.
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#10Note 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: