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My Opinion: NewPipe, Piped, Invidious, etc's days are numbered. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world

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With Reddit shutting down its API setting a precedent in the corporate tech world (and Reddit was a major outlier in that a ton of their users are technical minded and support third party clients, YouTube does not have that kind of userbase and will not get backlash for it), Twitter doing whatever the fuck they're doing, and Google already hellbent on destroying ad blockers, the days of Newpipe, Invidious, and Freetube are numbered. Wouldn't be surprised if they implement Netflix level DRM tomorrow that makes alt clients impossible. I say savour your alt clients while you can guys, you won't be able to soon.

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[-] mister_monster@monero.town 11 points 1 year ago

As long as youtube has RSS, you can still get videos.

I built this https://codeberg.org/mister_monster/YouTube2Peertube many years ago to help people resolve these problems.

[-] willya@lemmyf.uk 2 points 1 year ago

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[-] mister_monster@monero.town 2 points 1 year ago

I've never seen that problem before, but if you're having trouble the codeberg repo is a mirror of a github repo I published it to first, https://github.com/mister-monster/youtube2peertube

[-] willya@lemmyf.uk 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah weird. Codeberg is working now. I must have just been trying at the wrong time or something. Thanks!

[-] Dasnap@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Cool looking project. So is this something you use to mirror other people's YouTube channels? Does this only mirror them to a self-hosted PeerTube? I have a home server that could process the mirroring itself but I have nowhere near the storage. If this is something I can point at a subscription feed and then point at a PeerTube server then I'd be happy running it in a Docker container or something. I already run ArchiveTeam agents.

[-] mister_monster@monero.town 1 points 1 year ago

You can mirror your own as well.

It doesn't have to be self hosted peertube, as long as you have auth on the peertube server and you have a high enough upload cap it will work.

Yes, that is exactly how you'd use it, it runs on a server with some youtube channels to check periodically and some peertube accounts to mirror them to and it does it.

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