- Copylefted libre software (AGPLv3+ licensed)
- Audio-only mode (and no need to keep window open on mobile)
- Lightweight (the 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)
- Support for Reddit comments in place of YouTube comments
- Import/Export subscriptions, watch history, preferences
- Developer API
- Does not use any of the official YouTube APIs
- Does not require JavaScript to play videos
- No need to create a Google account to save subscriptions
- No ads
- No CoC
- No CLA
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Public instances are to be found in this list.
- invidio.us 🇺🇸
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Invidious-Updater is a self-contained script that can automatically install and update Invidious.
$ docker-compose upThen visit localhost:3000 in your browser.
$ docker-compose build$ docker volume rm invidious_postgresdata $ docker-compose buildTo manually compile invidious you need at least 2GB of RAM. If you have less you can setup SWAP to have a combined amount of 2 GB or use Docker instead.
# Arch Linux $ sudo pacman -S base-devel shards crystal librsvg postgresql # Ubuntu or Debian # First you have to add the repository to your APT configuration. For easy setup just run in your command line: $ curl -sSL https://dist.crystal-lang.org/apt/setup.sh | sudo bash # That will add the signing key and the repository configuration. If you prefer to do it manually, execute the following commands: $ curl -sL "https://keybase.io/crystal/pgp_keys.asc" | sudo apt-key add - $ echo "deb https://dist.crystal-lang.org/apt crystal main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/crystal.list $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt install crystal libssl-dev libxml2-dev libyaml-dev libgmp-dev libreadline-dev postgresql librsvg2-bin libsqlite3-dev$ useradd -m invidious $ sudo -i -u invidious $ git clone https://github.com/iv-org/invidious $ exit$ sudo systemctl enable postgresql $ sudo systemctl start postgresql $ sudo -i -u postgres $ psql -c "CREATE USER kemal WITH PASSWORD 'kemal';" # Change 'kemal' here to a stronger password, and update `password` in config/config.yml $ createdb -O kemal invidious $ psql invidious kemal < /home/invidious/invidious/config/sql/channels.sql $ psql invidious kemal < /home/invidious/invidious/config/sql/videos.sql $ psql invidious kemal < /home/invidious/invidious/config/sql/channel_videos.sql $ psql invidious kemal < /home/invidious/invidious/config/sql/users.sql $ psql invidious kemal < /home/invidious/invidious/config/sql/session_ids.sql $ psql invidious kemal < /home/invidious/invidious/config/sql/nonces.sql $ psql invidious kemal < /home/invidious/invidious/config/sql/annotations.sql $ psql invidious kemal < /home/invidious/invidious/config/sql/playlists.sql $ psql invidious kemal < /home/invidious/invidious/config/sql/playlist_videos.sql $ exit$ sudo -i -u invidious $ cd invidious $ shards update && shards install $ crystal build src/invidious.cr --release # test compiled binary $ ./invidious # stop with ctrl c $ exit$ sudo cp /home/invidious/invidious/invidious.service /etc/systemd/system/invidious.service $ sudo systemctl enable invidious.service $ sudo systemctl start invidious.service$ sudo echo "/home/invidious/invidious/invidious.log { rotate 4 weekly notifempty missingok compress minsize 1048576 }" | tee /etc/logrotate.d/invidious.logrotate $ sudo chmod 0644 /etc/logrotate.d/invidious.logrotate# Install dependencies $ brew update $ brew install shards crystal postgres imagemagick librsvg # Clone the repository and set up a PostgreSQL database $ git clone https://github.com/iv-org/invidious $ cd invidious $ brew services start postgresql $ psql -c "CREATE ROLE kemal WITH PASSWORD 'kemal';" # Change 'kemal' here to a stronger password, and update `password` in config/config.yml $ createdb -O kemal invidious $ psql invidious kemal < config/sql/channels.sql $ psql invidious kemal < config/sql/videos.sql $ psql invidious kemal < config/sql/channel_videos.sql $ psql invidious kemal < config/sql/users.sql $ psql invidious kemal < config/sql/session_ids.sql $ psql invidious kemal < config/sql/nonces.sql $ psql invidious kemal < config/sql/annotations.sql $ psql invidious kemal < config/sql/privacy.sql $ psql invidious kemal < config/sql/playlists.sql $ psql invidious kemal < config/sql/playlist_videos.sql # Set up Invidious $ shards update && shards install $ crystal build src/invidious.cr --releaseInstructions are available in the updating guide.
$ ./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 -c THREADS, --channel-threads=THREADS Number of threads for refreshing channels (default: 1) -f THREADS, --feed-threads=THREADS Number of threads for refreshing feeds (default: 1) -o OUTPUT, --output=OUTPUT Redirect output (default: STDOUT) -v, --version Print versionOr for development:
$ curl -fsSLo- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/samueleaton/sentry/master/install.cr | crystal eval $ ./sentry 🤖 Your SentryBot is vigilant. beep-boop...Documentation can be found in the wiki.
Extensions can be found in the wiki, as well as documentation for integrating it into other projects.
- FreeTube: A libre software YouTube app for privacy.
- CloudTube: A JavaScript-rich alternate YouTube player
- PeerTubeify: On YouTube, displays a link to the same video on PeerTube, if it exists.
- MusicPiped: A material design music player that streams music from YouTube.
- LapisTube: A fancy and advanced (experimental) YouTube front-end. Combined streams & custom YT features.
- HoloPlay: Funny Android application connecting on Invidious API's with search, playlists and favoris.
- Fork it ( https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/fork )
- Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
- Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
- Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
- Create a new pull request
- Log in with an account you have elsewhere, or register an account and start translating at Hosted Weblate.
Feel free to send an e-mail to omarroth@protonmail.com or join our Matrix server, or #invidious on freenode.
You can also read the release notes on the page of releases CHANGELOG.md included in the repository.