Invidious

Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube

• Audio-only (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, preference
• Does not use any of the official YouTube APIs

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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

Installing Crystal:

On Arch:

$ sudo pacman -S shards crystal
$ shards

On OSX:

$ brew update
$ brew install shards crystal-lang
$ shards

Installing Postgres:

On Arch:

Install according to the wiki

On OSX:

$ brew install postgres

Setup Postgres:

$ ./setup.sh

Installing ImageMagick (required for CAPTCHA):

On Arch:

$ sudo pacman -S imagemagick librsvg

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)
    -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)
• Invidio.us embed: Replaces YouTube embeds with Invidio.us embeds (userscript)

Contributing

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

Contributors

• omarroth - creator, maintainer