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What’s the newest way of watching YouTube? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by asbestos@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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As it stands, both Piped and Invidious are dead. Because od that, I almost completely stopped watching youtube but l'd still sometimes like to check what the people I follow posted (I used to do that via Piped). Are there any new ways of following people without actually using Google? I'm aware of the tools that download new videos as they come out but I'm more interested in just "subscribing", kinda like RSS?
Ideally it would be on iOS

Edit: I found it, “Unwatched” on iOS is awesome, thanks to !FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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[–] jcolag@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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_id= plus 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."

[–] asbestos@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Thanks for this! It actually works with a regular RSS reader, nice!

[–] rammjet@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

My personal Invidious server works just fine.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Freetube and mpv (uses yt-dlp in the background) work well for me 🤷

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[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I love freetube for my android and Linux PCs.

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[–] fitgse@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Konraddo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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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[–] mbirth@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] pedroparamo@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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

[–] water1309@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What countries might that be?

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[–] stardust@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] d00phy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

On iOS, I uninstalled the app and use Brave for YT & if I need to get on Reddit.

[–] Aku@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Anything work for iOS? I was using a side loaded app but it recently stopped working.

[–] Marmanvii@lemmy.one 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Rexios@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

I’ve been running this for my whole family and friends for years at this point. Way better than any browser based solution.

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