What do you use to private watch YouTube?

blue lion

I use a private Piped instance

@decisoft@lemm.ee

Can you show your docker-compose? I’ve tried several times without succeeding 🤧

@_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com

You can’t just ask that. Not without at least taking them out to a fancy dinner first. Maybe a little dancing.

@decisoft@lemm.ee

My bad 😁

blue lion

Before anything, you’ll want to create a folder for the unix socket: mkdir /var/run/ytproxy and chown it to your reverse proxy’s user and group.

The Docker files:

compose.yml

services:
  piped-frontend:
    image: 1337kavin/piped-frontend:latest
    container_name: piped-frontend
    environment:
      BACKEND_HOSTNAME: $API_ENDPOINT
    depends_on:
      - piped
    restart: unless-stopped
    networks:
      - proxy

  piped-proxy:
    image: 1337kavin/piped-proxy:latest
    container_name: piped-proxy
    environment:
      - UDS=1
    volumes:
      - /var/run/ytproxy:/app/socket  # unix socket location
    user: 1000:1000
    restart: unless-stopped
    networks:
      - proxy

  piped:
    image: 1337kavin/piped:latest
    container_name: piped-backend
    volumes:
      - ./piped/config/config.properties:/app/config.properties:ro
    depends_on:
      - piped-db
    restart: unless-stopped
    networks:
      - backend_piped
      - proxy

  piped-db:
    image: pgautoupgrade/pgautoupgrade:16-alpine
    container_name: piped-db
    environment:
      - POSTGRES_DB=$DB_NAME
      - POSTGRES_USER=$DB_USER
      - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=$DB_PASS
    volumes:
      - ./piped/pgdb:/var/lib/postgresql/data
    restart: unless-stopped
    networks:
      - backend_piped

networks:
  backend_piped:

  proxy:
    external: true

.env

API_ENDPOINT=  # no scheme prefix (ex. pipedapi.domain.example)
DB_NAME=
DB_USER=
DB_PASS=

To configure the reverse proxy (I use nginx), you can use Piped’s recommended files with your domains. The linked repo also contains a template for the required config.properties.

Let me know if you run into issues, I’ll be glad to help 🙂

@akilou@sh.itjust.works

Grayjay

@blindbunny@lemmy.ml

Does it just stop playing sometimes? It’s the only thing I don’t like about it so far

Possibly linux

Not foss

@akilou@sh.itjust.works

I didn’t say it was, I’m just answering the dude’s question

@Prunebutt@slrpnk.net

Freetube on Linux, newpipe on android and maybe a private invidious instance.

@macstainless@discuss.tchncs.de

I use YT-DLP to scrip the download of vids I want to watch and it drops them into Plex for me. I set it to run every 4 hours.

@robalees@lemmy.world

Oooh, this is interesting! How do you get the script to get latest videos from your subscribers?

@mosiacmango@lemm.ee

Can’t speak to his method, but the jellyfin media sever has a YouTube plugin called Fintube that uses the above downloader to integrate YouTube content.

@robalees@lemmy.world

Interesting, wonder if I can do something similar with Plex

@mosiacmango@lemm.ee

I just moved over to jellyfin from plex. I highly recommend it. It’s way more streamlined and active than plex, with a seriously good plugin community. No investor based bloat.

The only issue I had was that jellyfin would crash on scanning my very old music library, where plex would not. To fix it, I used musicbrainz picard to correctly add idv3 tags and remove illegal characters from song names. Now, its smooth as silk.

Blxter

All the plugin talk about jellyfin makes me want to switch wish Plex kept support for them. Jellyfin does seem to make way bigger strides than Plex these days

@mosiacmango@lemm.ee

Honestly, you should swap. They have tons of excellent plugins.. The intro skip alone is way better than Plex’s.

The end user clients are very solid too. Their kodi client alone is leagues ahead of the plex community one.

The only feature that plex has over jellyfin at this point in my mind is sharing content easy with people out of your home network. With Jellyfin you need to setup your own certs or reverse proxy like SWAG, or use something like tailscale.

Blxter

Yea I also believe (could be wrong) the Sonic analysis for music and Plex amp is much better than what finamp provides

Edit: I did run both about a year ago just to see the differences so it would not be hard for me to spin it back up

Edit 2: prob going to because I want to test the YouTube and twitch plugins tbh

@pirat@lemmy.world

I just tried this on an Ultra.cc seedbox with yt-dlp installed, and the Fintube plugin configured to the right path for that, yet when I go to Dashboard > Fintube and click the Submit button to add a video to the download, nothing happens. Can’t figure out what’s wrong.

Maybe Jellyfin doesn’t have the necessary write permissions to write the file to that folder, but I’m not quite sure how to change those on such a seedbox, if that’s the case.

Any experience with this to share? Would the Submit button usually lead to a different view, or does it just stay on that video submission screen while the download happens silently in the background? The lack of action I experience when clicking it feels a bit awkward…

@macstainless@discuss.tchncs.de

So there’s 2 files that go along with the main script: a config file and a download list.

The download list file is literally a list of YT channel URLs and any time I want it to get new channels, I add to the list. Conversely if I get tired of watching a channel, I comment it out or just delete it. YT-DLP just traverses the list.

The config is where the magic happens. That dictates how the file is named, quality you download at, location it’s saved to, format, etc. You can incorporate SponsorBlock which is awesome and even DeArrow has an integration. I enjoy the logging feature so it doesn’t re-download vids it’s already snagged. Generally I’ll tell it to get every video from a channel that’s been posted in the last 15 days.

My destination for the files is a YouTube library folder I set up in Plex. Plex sees it just as another TV-like library and it pulls the metadata from the files, which are embedded by YT-DLP.

Hope this helps!

@robalees@lemmy.world

Very helpful! Thank you so much!

@macstainless@discuss.tchncs.de

You got it. Good luck!

👍Maximum Derek👍

I have a locally hosted invidious instance but increasingly I’m finding most of the creators I watch are on Nebula. I just recently discovered that Rifftrax has a presence there.

Possibly linux

Does Nebula have third party clients?

@andyortlieb@lemmy.sdf.org

Grayjay can stream nebula, so there must be a way.

👍Maximum Derek👍

Not that I’m aware of, but it would be nice.

@pogodem0n@lemmy.world

NewPipe

@unrushed233@lemmings.world

youtube-local over a Mullvad (other services like Proton or IVPN are great as well) works really well for me

Karna

Self-hosted Invidious or public Invidious instances.

https://github.com/iv-org/invidious

@Selfhoster1728@lemmy.world

Libretube with a vpn! Newpipe doesn’t look great imo

@sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works

Grayjay on my Android phone. I like that it supports a lot of different services, and I have subs on Odysee, Rumble, and Nebula (I pay for a sub there). I sometimes download videos for offline use if I’m going to listen on my commute or something (no point in using up data if I don’t need to).

On my desktop/laptop, I just use YouTube directly w/ uBlock Origin on Firefox (to block ads) without logging in. I don’t watch much YouTube on my desktop/laptop, and when I do, I’ll just look for a specific video or whatever.

I also have NewPipe installed on my phone for when I want to find something specific (i.e. background music or something), because Grayjay’s search kind of sucks.

Possibly linux

Not Foss so if that’s something that matters to you I would recommend you look elsewhere

@sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works

Grayjay is source available, which is better than nothing. I’d prefer FOSS, but the features make up for the poor choice of license.

Possibly linux

So is Windows XP

That doesn’t mean much

@sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works

It’s really not. Windows XP had its source leaked, it’s not source available. Grayjay is source available, so I can see every new commit before it hits my phone. That’s a pretty big difference, and it’s the most important when it comes to public security audits.

Possibly linux

You aren’t legally allowed to do anything about a bad commit so it is meaningless

@sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works

That doesn’t follow. If there’s a bad commit in Windows 10 or 11, I won’t even know about it. If there’s a bad commit in Grayjay, I can:

not upgrade, or downgrade to an unaffected version
report the issue on their issue tracker
technically violate the license by patching it myself and building my own copy (probably fine provided I don’t distribute changes)

I can do exactly none of that with most proprietary software, so this source-available license is much better than those. Again, it’s not ideal, but considering it the same as every other proprietary software license is absurd.

@Retro_unlimited@lemmy.world

I use several of the suggestions above, but also for IOS (iPhone) I use “Firefox Focus” and it clears everything when I close it and I can watch ad free.

@pe1uca@lemmy.pe1uca.dev

With invidious and in FreshRSS I use the youtube extension to use the embedded video player, you just need update this part of the code https://github.com/FreshRSS/Extensions/blob/master/xExtension-YouTube/extension.php#L153-L163
It easy just to replace for this:

    public function getHtmlContentForLink(FreshRSS_Entry $entry, string $link): string
    {
        $domain = 'www.youtube.com';
        if ($this->useNoCookie) {
            $domain = 'www.youtube-nocookie.com';
        }
        $domain = 'invidious.personal.com';
        $params = 'quality=dash';
        $url = str_replace('//www.youtube.com/watch?v=', '//'.$domain.'/embed/', $link);
        $url = str_replace('http://', 'https://', $url);
        $url = $url . '?' . $params;

        return $this->getHtml($entry, $url);
    }

The only change is to use $domain = 'invidious.personal.com';
And add the parameter quality=dash

Seems there’s also this one https://github.com/tunbridgep/freshrss-invidious
but haven’t tried it

@Asparagus0098@sh.itjust.works

NewPipe on my phone. I don’t have PC I can use rn but when I used to have one I’d just use my browser (mainly Firefox) with ublock origin to watch YouTube (without signing in).

Possibly linux

Newpipe or libretube

@electric_nan@lemmy.ml

NewPipe or PipePipe.

@PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee

Been using PipePipe for awhile now and love it. Unfortunately, recently it has not been able to load playlists 9/10 times. Very frustrating. Hopefully it gets a patch soon.

@electric_nan@lemmy.ml

Any problems I’ve had with these apps has usually been solved by reconnecting my VPN.

@PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee

I don’t have a VPN.

What do you use to private watch YouTube?

What do you use to private watch YouTube?

Selfhosted