Freetube on Linux, newpipe on android and maybe a private invidious instance.
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.
Oooh, this is interesting! How do you get the script to get latest videos from your subscribers?
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.
Interesting, wonder if I can do something similar with Plex
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.
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
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.
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
Hmm, not using finamp. I'm pretty happy with Synfonuim.
Cant speak to that aspect.
Ok I've heard alot of good things from that according to this Reddit post it has most features minus the DJ witch is cool and I use but I like trying out new apps and it's got a free trial and only a 5$ purchase so pretty cheap all things considered.
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!
Very helpful! Thank you so much!
You got it. Good luck!
Grayjay
I use a private Piped instance
Can you show your docker-compose? I've tried several times without succeeding 🤧
You can't just ask that. Not without at least taking them out to a fancy dinner first. Maybe a little dancing.
My bad 😁
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 🙂
I just watch it on youtube.com without logging in. Sacrificing convenience and using some frontend that only work if you pray hard is not something I want to do daily-drive
I use containers on Firefox to sandbox YouTube, and then have a throwaway account that’s literally just for YouTube and nothing else. Everywhere else on the web, scripts from Google are blacklisted using uBO.
There are some periods where YouTube make changes frequently so that e.g. FreeTube stops working for some time, but for the most part it works reliably well. I would say it provides a much better convenience than watching on youtube.com logged out, as you have profiles, subscriptions, playlist and history. Including adblock, sponsorblock and dearrow, and granular control over what to show or not (comments, shorts, live etc.).
Self-hosted Invidious or public Invidious instances.
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).
Freetube on desktop works beautifully. They just added playlists too
grayjay, it's an app developed by Louis Rossman to combine a lot of streaming platforms into one privacy and security respecting app. it does have billionaire backing tho if that yanks your chain
+1 on Grayjay. Also Tubular. FreeTube on PC and SmartTube on TV.
Thanks! I’ll check it out. Thanks for yanking my chain
ofc!
NewPipe or PipePipe.
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.
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
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.
youtube-local over a Mullvad (other services like Proton or IVPN are great as well) works really well for me
I use a self-hosted invidious instance, and despite the recent issues with Google trying to block them mine works behind Mullvad VPN.
I use the web app on desktop, and Yattee client on my phone/ipad
Newpipe or libretube
NewPipe
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.
I don't watch a lot of youtube, but DuckDuckGo browser (on Android and Windows, at least) has a Duck Player that removes all of the cruft around videos and is private afaik.
A nice docker friendly front end to yt-dlp. I use it to watch YouTube on iOS devices where ublock origin is not an option.
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.
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