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I'm glad that we have the option to self-host, and would be curious to learn more if you have other self-hosted youtube frontend options. As it stands now I thi

I'm glad that we have the option to self-host, and would be curious to learn more if you have other self-hosted youtube frontend options. As it stands now I think if invidious isn't maintained it will likely break soon. Newpipe breaks every other week and it's actively maintained. Invidious I found to be uniquely and particularly convenient because, for a while at least, it ran like any other website and I could skip the steps needed to self host.

ZinniaZirconium 6y ago
There's also this which includes a frontend: https://github.com/Athlon1600/youtube-downloader https://github.com/Athlon1600/youtube-downloader I'm unaffiliated but I like to follow this particular project when I want to know if others are having the same trouble with YouTube when things break for me. I only ever implemented a backend myself when I chose to self host.
ZinniaZirconium 6y ago
I'm gonna reconsider using Athlon1600/youtube-downloader in my projects but from what I remember of benchmarks I did about 8 months ago my fork of youtubedown was faster like obtain a video url in 300ms faster. In my projects I lazy load the video on demand when the user pushes play instead of preloading video at page load so minimizing the time to obtain a video url matters to me.