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> the APIs probably changes regularly I'd go as far to say routinely. A massive pain point for third party youtube apps like newpipe which break every few mont

> the APIs probably changes regularly I'd go as far to say routinely. A massive pain point for third party youtube apps like newpipe which break every few months due to it.

arcbyte 5y ago
As a regular user of NewPipe, I disagree that it's a "massive" pain point. NewPipe works very well almost all the time. Coincidentally today is maybe the third time I've went to watch something and it's been broken. It's annoying yes, but soooo much less annoying that constant ads. It's a minor pain point that is easily solved by temporarily switching back to regular youtube.. by the time I've seen a few ads I'm more annoyed at the regular experience and NewPipe probably has a fix out by then anyway.
kyleee 5y ago
as it happens, newpipe is currently broken
- autoexec 5y ago
  0.20.2 is working for me (at least it's working enough that videos can be played and downloaded). Even in newpipe I prefer to download videos rather than stream them. VLC is a far better player, fewer ads, fewer distractions, zero comments, and what videos I re-watch and how often isn't being logged by google.
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 5y ago
  How so, exactly. I have been playing around with NewPipe SponsorBlock. It has its flaws but generally seems to work. I have not seen it mentioned but NewPipe SB also supports Soundcloud, Bandcamp and PeerTube instances. I think it includes FramaSoft's and CCC's PeerTube instances as presets. It is interesting how smoothly PeerTube seems to work. I would not rely on NewPipe for downloading or playing YouTube videos, even when it is "fixed", but the app does much more than just those two things.
londons_explore 5y ago
Youtube API's change frequently, but rarely in backwards incompatible ways. After all, youtube runs on millions of client devices which can't or won't update the client application. Eg. Android devices with google play broken or logged out. Forcing those users to update in many cases will lose a user. A 5+ year old phone's copy of youtube still runs and plays videos. Now the API's that the website uses... those can be updated with nearly zero notice...

> the APIs probably changes regularly I'd go as far to say routinely. A massive pain point for third party youtube apps like newpipe which break every few months due to it.

arcbyte 5y ago

As a regular user of NewPipe, I disagree that it's a "massive" pain point. NewPipe works very well almost all the time. Coincidentally today is maybe the third time I've went to watch something and it's been broken. It's annoying yes, but soooo much less annoying that constant ads. It's a minor pain point that is easily solved by temporarily switching back to regular youtube.. by the time I've seen a few ads I'm more annoyed at the regular experience and NewPipe probably has a fix out by then anyway.

kyleee 5y ago

as it happens, newpipe is currently broken

autoexec 5y ago
0.20.2 is working for me (at least it's working enough that videos can be played and downloaded). Even in newpipe I prefer to download videos rather than stream them. VLC is a far better player, fewer ads, fewer distractions, zero comments, and what videos I re-watch and how often isn't being logged by google.
1vuio0pswjnm7 5y ago
How so, exactly. I have been playing around with NewPipe SponsorBlock. It has its flaws but generally seems to work. I have not seen it mentioned but NewPipe SB also supports Soundcloud, Bandcamp and PeerTube instances. I think it includes FramaSoft's and CCC's PeerTube instances as presets. It is interesting how smoothly PeerTube seems to work. I would not rely on NewPipe for downloading or playing YouTube videos, even when it is "fixed", but the app does much more than just those two things.

londons_explore 5y ago

Youtube API's change frequently, but rarely in backwards incompatible ways. After all, youtube runs on millions of client devices which can't or won't update the client application. Eg. Android devices with google play broken or logged out. Forcing those users to update in many cases will lose a user. A 5+ year old phone's copy of youtube still runs and plays videos. Now the API's that the website uses... those can be updated with nearly zero notice...