I just use Newpipe
However, Piped and Invidious are not dead. YouTube is trying really hard to kill them but they still work somewhat. It is a cat and mouse game.
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My personal Invidious server works just fine.
I am already paying for proton vpn for other reasons and connecting to other countries that don’t allow ads seems to work. It even works on NVIDIA media player and I might even assume Apple TV. I just lost my premium today so yeah
Edit. Just noticed this is a self hosted sub, I’ll just leave this in case someone needs the info but otherwise I’ll delete
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I’m using News Explorer for my RSS feeds which also supports subscribing to YouTube channels. In the newer versions it even pulls the comments from YT.
I was using freshrss which can grab the rad feed for a channel, but I’ve moved to tube archivist with a Jellyfin plugin. Now they are all predownloaded and just show up on my tv via Jellyfin app.
It’s a way better way to keep track of what you want to watch.
Just curious if there's a setting in any of those applications that removes downloaded videos which have been watched at least once, and after x amount of time? It's sort of like a watch list. If watched, I don't want to keep the video. But if I do, I can add it to a playlist and let PinchFlat download it for archive.
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I was going to recommend android apps until I saw iOS. I don't know anyones that let you keep a local subscription like newpipe does without needing to sideload. So if there are I'd be interested.
On iOS, I uninstalled the app and use Brave for YT & if I need to get on Reddit.
NewPipe or Patched YouTube App using ReVanced Manager
yt-dlp --sponsorblock-remove all <url> is the way. It turns playlist link into nicely named, curated video files awaiting to played by a regular video player
Does "all" remove every type of segment? Because that seems excessive for most people, there is a lot of filler/etc sections that are over-zealously tagged.
Anything work for iOS? I was using a side loaded app but it recently stopped working.
Brave.
I believe that YouTube supports RSS. I haven't used it in years, but gPodder allowed subscribing to channels.
Ah, yeah. From this post:
- Go to the YouTube channel page.
- Click more for the About box.
- Scroll down to click Share channel. Choose Copy channel ID.
- Get the feed from
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_idplus that channel ID from the previous step.
From there, something (like a podcast client) needs to grab the video.
Otherwise, I've been using Tartube to download to my media server, which is not great but fine, except for needing to delete the lock file when it (or the computer) crashes, and the fact that the media server hasn't the foggiest idea of how to organize the "episodes."
Thanks for this! It actually works with a regular RSS reader, nice!
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Self hosted Invidious still works
Freetube and mpv (uses yt-dlp in the background) work well for me 🤷
Grayjay by FUTO has been working well for me
Forgot about that one but it’s only on Android (mobile-wise)
Oh, I wasn't sure what platform you needed. For iOS, yeah I have no idea. For anyone else that comes across this though, Grayjay also has a desktop app now
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