Invidious

Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube

Audio-only mode (and no need to keep window open on mobile)
Open-source (AGPLv3 licensed)
No ads
No need to create a Google account to save subscriptions
Lightweight (homepage is ~4 KB compressed)
Tools for managing subscriptions:
- Only show unseen videos
- Only show latest (or latest unseen) video from each channel
- Delivers notifications from all subscribed channels
- Automatically redirect homepage to feed
- Import subscriptions from YouTube
Dark mode
Embed support
Set default player options (speed, quality, autoplay, loop)
Does not require JS to play videos
Support for Reddit comments in place of YT comments
Import/Export subscriptions, watch history, preferences
Does not use any of the official YouTube APIs
Developer API

Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/omarroth
Patreon: https://patreon.com/omarroth
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Installation

Docker:

Build and start cluster:

$ docker-compose up

And visit localhost:3000 in your browser.

Rebuild cluster:

$ docker-compose build

Delete data and rebuild:

$ docker volume rm invidious_postgresdata
$ docker-compose build

Arch Linux:

# Install dependencies
$ sudo pacman -S shards crystal imagemagick librsvg

# Setup PostgresSQL
$ sudo systemctl enable postgresql
$ sudo systemctl start postgresql
$ sudo -i -u postgres
$ createuser -s YOUR_USER_NAME
$ createdb      YOUR_USER_NAME
$ exit

# Setup Invidious
$ git clone https://github.com/omarroth/invidious
$ cd invidious
$ ./setup.sh
$ shards
$ crystal build src/invidious.cr --release

On Ubuntu:

# Install dependencies
$ curl -sSL https://dist.crystal-lang.org/apt/setup.sh | sudo bash
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install crystal libssl-dev libxml2-dev libyaml-dev libgmp-dev libreadline-dev librsvg2-dev postgresql imagemagick

# Setup PostgreSQL
$ sudo systemctl enable postgresql
$ sudo systemctl start postgresql
$ sudo -i -u postgres
$ createuser -s YOUR_USER_NAME_HERE
$ createdb      YOUR_USER_NAME_HERE
$ exit

# Setup Invidious
$ git clone https://github.com/omarroth/invidious
$ cd invidious
$ ./setup.sh
$ shards
$ crystal build src/invidious.cr --release

On OSX:

# Install dependencies
$ brew update
$ brew install shards crystal-lang postgres imagemagick librsvg

# Setup Invidious
$ git clone https://github.com/omarroth/invidious
$ cd invidious
$ ./setup.sh
$ shards
$ crystal build src/invidious.cr --release

Usage:

$ crystal build src/invidious.cr --release
$ ./invidious -h
Usage: invidious [arguments]
    -b HOST, --bind HOST             Host to bind (defaults to 0.0.0.0)
    -p PORT, --port PORT             Port to listen for connections (defaults to 3000)
    -s, --ssl                        Enables SSL
    --ssl-key-file FILE              SSL key file
    --ssl-cert-file FILE             SSL certificate file
    -h, --help                       Shows this help
    -t THREADS, --crawl-threads=THREADS
                                     Number of threads for crawling (default: 1)
    -c THREADS, --channel-threads=THREADS
                                     Number of threads for refreshing channels (default: 1)
    -f THREADS, --feed-threads=THREADS
                                     Number of threads for refreshing feeds (default: 1)
    -v THREADS, --video-threads=THREADS
                                     Number of threads for refreshing videos (default: 1)

Or for development:

$ curl -fsSLo- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/samueleaton/sentry/master/install.cr | crystal eval
$ ./sentry

Extensions

Alternate Tube Redirector: Automatically open Youtube Videos on alternate sites like Invidious or Hooktube.
Invidious Redirect: Redirects Youtube URLs to Invidio.us (userscript)
iPhone Redirector Shortcut: Automatically open YouTube videos in Invidious (iPhone shortcut)
Youtube to Invidious: Scan page for youtube embeds and urls and replace with Invidious (userscript)
Invidious Downloader: Tampermonkey userscript for downloading videos or audio on Invidious (userscript)

Made with Invidious

FreeTube: An Open Source YouTube app for privacy.
CloudTube: Website featuring pastebin, image host, and YouTube player
PeerTubeify: On YouTube, displays a link to the same video on PeerTube, if it exists.

Contributing

Fork it ( https://github.com/omarroth/invidious/fork )
Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
Create a new Pull Request

Contributors

omarroth - creator, maintainer

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