I am starting to detangle myself from Google and one of the services I use is YouTube.
I learned that piped exists the other day but that is just a front end for Google.
Is there a tool that I can host on my server that will let me give it YouTube links, that will then download/stream to my server and then server to my phone or computer?
I guess I am looking for a tool that will cache my YouTube videos locally and even download my subscriptions when they upload new stuff.
I’m not sure what this buys me that Piped does not, except that I am backing up videos in case they are removed.
Yes it’s called Invidious.
Piped is just a front end and the data is still on Youtube servers right? Honestly that is probably enough but I’ll check out the one /u/tkk13909@sopuli.xyz suggested.
That’s right, but from a user data perspective, Google does not know that you are the one watching the video, so it cannot sell your data.
Piped consists of a frontend, a backend and a proxy. The frontend is the site you see, the backend stores all the data like video information, user accounts and subscriptions, and the proxy loads the videos you watch from YT. The only thing it doesn’t do is download and store the videos, it’ll always stream them on demand.
https://www.tubearchivist.com/
I’ve liked this one. Let’s you subscribe to channels/playlists and download en-masse if your inclined
This is really cool. I’m still struggling to find a good replacement for my use case. I almost exclusively watch youtube on my Nvidia Shield on SmartTube with sponsorblock.
I do use Jellyfin already and I see there is a Jellyfin plugin. Do you know if Jellyfin gets sponsorblock information as chapters? That would probably be an okay solution, even if it doesn’t automatically skip them.
Self host invidious maybe?
AFAIK, Piped always proxies the videos through a server.
I am more familiar with Invidious. Find an Invidious server that lets you enable proxying. Some examples are yewtu.be, invidious.protokolla.fi and inv.nadeko.net. Then find an RSS app that lets you download the content, as well as supports cookies. Use the invidious server’s cookies in your RSS app to proxy the content you download. Invidious servers can provide RSS feeds for individual channels, as well as your complete subscription feed.
And if possible donate a dollar or two, regularly, to the invidious server that you use, since it takes up a lot of bandwidth and motivates the hoster to keep up what they are doing.
PeerTube can do this (yes, out of the box!).
