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I guess that's when you double down and just scrape Invidious[1] for the audio files. edit: The Firefox extension "Privacy Redirect"[2] also uses Invidious to

by hnarn 6y ago

I guess that's when you double down and just scrape Invidious[1] for the audio files. edit: The Firefox extension "Privacy Redirect"[2] also uses Invidious to automatically redirect all youtube links, and does similar things for pages like reddit and twitter to their respective "mirrors". [1]: https://docs.invidious.io/Invidious-Instances.md https://docs.invidious.io/Invidious-Instances.md [2]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-redirect/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-redir...

HEHENE 6y ago
Wow, I had no idea about Invidious. This perfectly solves my use case of needing a REST API to get MP3 urls for YouTube videos. I was looking into building or finding a REST API for youtube-dl, but this seems a lot easier.
- hnarn 6y ago
  The mirrors frequently go offline from being blocked though, so it may be easier to rely on youtube-dl depending on how likely it is that you will be rate-limited. You could of course also try and set up your own, private Invidious instance and see what mileage you get from that.
  - andrepd 6y ago
    Yep! I do that and just hand the URL to friends.
wcarss 6y ago
For anyone else wondering "what the heck is invidious?", from their github[1]: "Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube." Cool! But man, classic open source: the front page of those docs says nothing about what the heck the project is, just a list of URLs to visit, and the main website[2] is just an under-construction page with a link to the github repo. 1 - https://github.com/iv-org/invidious https://github.com/iv-org/invidious 2 - https://invidious.io/ https://invidious.io/
- galfarragem 6y ago
  Check https://redirect.invidious.io/ https://redirect.invidious.io/ and try another Invidious instance.
- gojomo 6y ago
  Remaining somewhat illegible probably helps the project survive for the benefit of the cognoscenti.
  - toyg 6y ago
    ... and they say security by obscurity doesn't work! /s

by hnarn 6y ago

HEHENE 6y ago

Wow, I had no idea about Invidious. This perfectly solves my use case of needing a REST API to get MP3 urls for YouTube videos. I was looking into building or finding a REST API for youtube-dl, but this seems a lot easier.

hnarn 6y ago
The mirrors frequently go offline from being blocked though, so it may be easier to rely on youtube-dl depending on how likely it is that you will be rate-limited. You could of course also try and set up your own, private Invidious instance and see what mileage you get from that.
- andrepd 6y ago
  Yep! I do that and just hand the URL to friends.

wcarss 6y ago

For anyone else wondering "what the heck is invidious?", from their github[1]: "Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube." Cool! But man, classic open source: the front page of those docs says nothing about what the heck the project is, just a list of URLs to visit, and the main website[2] is just an under-construction page with a link to the github repo. 1 - https://github.com/iv-org/invidious https://github.com/iv-org/invidious 2 - https://invidious.io/ https://invidious.io/

galfarragem 6y ago
Check https://redirect.invidious.io/ https://redirect.invidious.io/ and try another Invidious instance.
gojomo 6y ago
Remaining somewhat illegible probably helps the project survive for the benefit of the cognoscenti.
- toyg 6y ago
  ... and they say security by obscurity doesn't work! /s