Piped: The Youtube Experience You've Been Waiting For
Piped: The Youtube Experience You've Been Waiting For
An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design. - GitHub - TeamPiped/Piped: An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.
Anyone who's been using privacy-respecting frontends for some time will recognise Piped. A YouTube frontend with no ads, integrated SponsorBlock, return dislikes, and a customisable UI.
Piped also allows you to subscribe to as many channels as you want without ever logging into a Google account. You can export your subs list from YouTube and import them to Piped seamlessly.
If you've never heard of it, give it a glance at https://piped.video. For more instances, check here.
can definitely recommend this, but just a head's up - Google has a habit of hitting the main instance with rate limiting, which causes videos to not load until it gets fixed. but thankfully Piped has multiple instances, so if the main one is down, you can keep watching.
Excellent timing! With the rumblings of YT attacking anti-ad users and me using my new iPad Pro for watching stuff on the go, I’ve just started looking into side-loading.
Looks like I’ll be going with an app that utilizes this fw. Good share!
Inb4 YouTube starts charging for API access… too soon? :(
Piped (and similar projects like NewPipe, Invidious, and FreeTube) scrape YouTube instead of using an API; so just like Nitter, they won't be affected by a paid API.
Ironically Nitter stopped working lately, since Twitter started requiring users to be logged in to read anything.
Invidious does use a YouTube API. FreeTube uses Invidious, so probably same story there. I don't know about the others.
I recently had a back and forth with one of invidious's developers. Judge for yourself.
I'm sure they're watching the reddit situation very closely.
I use it for about a year new. There are a few hiccups now and then, but you can just switch instance. That's why I recommend using Libredirect with it. If you have trouble with an instance just ping the instances in Libredirect and chose a new one. Backup your preferences from the old instance and import it to the new. Your settings and subscriptions are available again.
How is it different from NewPipe?
It uses NewPipe in the backend. Your requests will be proxied through the Piped server.
How does it compare to invidious? Worth switching?
Is this a similar concept to NewPipe?
Yep, Piped uses the NewPipeExtractor to load videos, just like NewPipe. However, Piped runs it server side, and NewPipe runs it client side. YouTube likes to rate limit the big instances too, so all you have to do is use a smaller one like il.ax or piped.adminforge.de.
Yes, it uses NewPipeExtractor to get the videos, so it's basically just a different UI as far as I understand it.
SmartTube for Google/Android TVs! So amazing. AdBlock and sponsorblock built in.
Really the only solution to watch YouTube on TV. I sideloaded it to my shield. github
Hello there, I'm the author of Piped and would love to answer any questions you may have! 👋
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is there any way for me to sign into my youtube account by way of piped so I can get my sub feed and stuff?
You can export your Youtube subscription into a csv file that can be imported into Piped. If you enable cookies you don't even need to create an account and can still have a personal feed. That's the main reason for me to use it above Invidious
Initial player response is not valid. Doesn’t inspire confidence that it is immediately broken.
eh, i don't think it's fair to discount a youtube frontend for having a bug, especially not a frontend as new as this one. projects at this early a stage always have issues, & youtube frontends have to deal with the added bonus of google randomly rate-limiting & consistently trying to break them. youtube frontends are always going to have issues & need constant updates by nature, there's not much any of them can do about it
main instance is being rate limited - basically Google likes to go 'fuck you' and kill the main instance for a few days. just switch to a smaller instance and you'll be good
Piped is excellent. Even live streams and 4K videos are working.
I am self-hosting my own instance. The setup was a bit more involved than for other alternative frontends, but definitely worth it.
Do any of these frontends have a "watch later" function? What I really need is the "remove watched" button, since its just a playlist.
I just create a playlist "watch later" add my videos to it and use it like the watch later feature in YouTube. It does a pretty good job
Just downloaded it, thank you!
Piped js no longer working since YT started blocking Ad-blockers.
What do you mean exactly? I just tried it and it and Piped seems to work just fine.
that's weird, it's working fine for me. maybe you could try hopping to a smaller instance and see if that helps? maybe it's also a regional thing im unaware of.