Your service was amazing and it's sad that we will no longer be able to access it after the 1st of September, is there any other alternative to Invidious?
zaheerhakim
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the specific instance is shutting down, not the project.
boehs
on 25 Aug 2020
the specific instance is shutting down, not the project.
So I鈥檒l still able to use the website to watch YouTube videos?
zaheerhakim
on 25 Aug 2020
So I鈥檒l still able to use the website to watch YouTube videos?
It's more like you have to use other instance. Here's a list
https://invidious-redirect.cadence.moe/
diazepan
on 25 Aug 2020
So I鈥檒l still able to use the website to watch YouTube videos?
It's more like you have to use other instance. Here's a list
Thank you 馃槂
Stay Safe!
zaheerhakim
on 25 Aug 2020
the specific instance is shutting down, not the project.
Yes, but no.
The instance is shutting down, yes, but the only developer is also quitting. If Invidious doesn't get a new developer the project is dead.
the specific instance is shutting down, not the project.
So I鈥檒l still able to use the website to watch YouTube videos?
As long as Invidious doesn't get a new developer the project is dying, currently if YouTube change something and no one can fix it, the project will be dead.
TheFrenchGhosty
on 25 Aug 2020
the specific instance is shutting down, not the project.
Yes, but no.
The instance is shutting down, yes, but the only developer is also quitting. If Invidious doesn't get a new developer the project is dead.
the specific instance is shutting down, not the project.
So I鈥檒l still able to use the website to watch YouTube videos?
As long as Invidious doesn't get a new developer the project is dying, currently if YouTube change something and no one can fix it, the project will be dead.
Thank you.
Understood.
Hope everything goes well.
Stay Safe!
zaheerhakim
on 25 Aug 2020
The instance is shutting down, yes, but the only developer is also quitting. If Invidious doesn't get a new developer the project is dead.
As long as Invidious doesn't get a new developer the project is dying, currently if YouTube change something and no one can fix it, the project will be dead.
Begs the question; is this not about to become a community-developed project? If so, how come? I'm pretty sure Invidious could benefit from it.
SolAZDev
on 25 Aug 2020
The instance is shutting down, yes, but the only developer is also quitting. If Invidious doesn't get a new developer the project is dead.
As long as Invidious doesn't get a new developer the project is dying, currently if YouTube change something and no one can fix it, the project will be dead.
Begs the question; is this not about to become a community-developed project? If so, how come? I'm pretty sure Invidious could benefit from it.
it was always community developed, to an extent. we can all contribute, but, the main person who contributed the most by far is stepping down.
boehs
on 25 Aug 2020
it was always community developed, to an extent. we can all contribute, but, the main person who contributed the most by far is stepping down.
Exactly, it was always a community project, no one other than the main developer bothered to work on it, and today, we get he consequence of that sadly.
TheFrenchGhosty
on 26 Aug 2020
I'll be willing to help, but I think I need the help of the main developer for that..
This is a great project which gives hope for privacy! I'd be sad to watch it die.
aurianer
on 26 Aug 2020
Hope it doesn't die. Excellent project for privacy.
zaheerhakim
on 26 Aug 2020
I'm hoping we can find some devs, shame it was written in Crystal.
It would be nice not to have to move to another frontend (again), as Invidious has been integrated into so many things.
However, if we did, I cannot say I am +1 for the implementations I have seen so far which seem to all be written in Python unless I am missing something. Not against a popular language obviously, But I cannot say I am for moving to a python based frontend lol
grravity
on 29 Aug 2020
I'm hoping we can find some devs, shame it was written in Crystal.
Yeah, that's a problem.
Not against a popular language obviously, But I cannot say I am for moving to a python based frontend lol
You don't give any reasons why you're against it. I'd rather it be written in something with more potential contributors (e.g. python) than in something like Crystal where there are far fewer potential contributors (and even less who will actually care enough to contribute to this project...)
craftyguy
on 30 Aug 2020
Not against a popular language obviously, But I cannot say I am for moving to a python based frontend lol
The fact that it is easier to find people willing and able to reimplement Invidious in Python than it is to find people willing and able to maintain the existing Crystal codebase is enough to convince me that Python is the right choice, if we want to avoid ending up in this situation again.
chaosmonk1
on 30 Aug 2020
i got affected by #1388 and find this issue
my need for invidious is to get all video from channel and process it with another program
so far i found 3 program
- https://github.com/pluja/Yotter , unfortunately no api and it only got few video from channel
- https://github.com/cloudrac3r/youtubedl-invidious / https://git.sr.ht/~cadence/Second , i haven't try both of them but it seem promising
- https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl , still try to write the script for this
rachmadaniHaryono
on 30 Sep 2020
Just discover MotionBox: http://omega.gg/MotionBox/ (https://github.com/omega-gg/MotionBox)
Really good app to stream from different servers (youtube, dailymotion, vimeo, etc...), with lot of options. A newPipe's like desktop app in a sort. Definitely worth a try 馃憤
rdhox
on 5 Oct 2020
Motionbox
I wouldn't call this an alternative to Invidious. Invidious was simply a web based front-end to YouTube. Not an application.
grravity
on 5 Oct 2020
Motionbox
I wouldn't call this an alternative to Invidious. Invidious was simply a web based front-end to YouTube. Not an application.
Invidious was also an API used by almost all the desktop application :)
One of the only alternative is new pipe which not exist on desktop.
rdhox
on 5 Oct 2020
Freetube exist on desktop. But some people, including me, still want to have invidious.
TheFrenchGhosty
on 6 Oct 2020
Not against a popular language obviously, But I cannot say I am for moving to a python based frontend lol
The fact that it is easier to find people willing and able to reimplement Invidious in Python than it is to find people willing and able to maintain the existing Crystal codebase is enough to convince me that Python is the right choice, if we want to avoid ending up in this situation again.
While I'm much more familiar with Python than with Crystal, a Python implementation would be more resource intensive thus making it significantly harder to independently host.
Serkan-devel
on 11 Oct 2020
If anyone is interested I wrote a rust port of newpipe (not invidious), and a WIP frontend
It's available at
https://rustypipe.deepraven.co/
Project is open source at
https://github.com/deep-gaurav/rusty_pipe
deep-gaurav
on 15 Oct 2020
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The fact that it is easier to find people willing and able to reimplement Invidious in Python than it is to find people willing and able to maintain the existing Crystal codebase is enough to convince me that Python is the right choice, if we want to avoid ending up in this situation again.