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IME newpipe breaks every few weeks or so, presumably because of some youtube change / obfuscation. Or at least that was the case a few years ago. I've had more
by Frotag 8mo ago
IME newpipe breaks every few weeks or so, presumably because of some youtube change / obfuscation. Or at least that was the case a few years ago.
I've had more success hosting an invidious instance and using the materialious client for mobile. And a bonus is that it comes with sponsorblock built in.
https://invidious.io/ https://invidious.io/
https://materialio.us/ https://materialio.us/
- kyleee 8mo agoI think that is overstating it, there has been one recent breakage and fix in the last few months or more roughly. It would be interesting to see it plotted out on a timeline though.
- jimlikeslimes 8mo agoI think there was a phase of repeated breakages a while back, but things seem to have stabilised. Fixes are released quickly ime too.
- truckingthrow33 8mo agoI use it to mainly download videos, and that seems to break every few weeks. I just updated and it's fixed. Small price to pay.
- Hoodedcrow 7mo agoFor downloads, I prefer Seal - a wrapper for yt-dlp. yt-dlp can update faster like this since doesn't have to update together with the app, and can add metadata and apply Sponsorblock. Could just use yt-dlp from Termux but this is more convenient.
- _blk 8mo agoAbsolutely but I stop YouTube consumption if it's not through NewPipe, so a little productivity boost here and there is not too bad ;)
- dyauspitr 8mo agoWhat’s the point of newpipe? You can block ads with ublock. You can block shorts with browser extensions. What other benefits does newpipe offer?
- Hoodedcrow 7mo agoFor me, the main benefit over the browser are the progress tracking and playlists. You can do both with bookmarks in the browser, but it's much less convenient.
- DangitBobby 8mo agoNewpipe is more pleasant than YouTube on FF Android with uBlock in my opinion. I often search find a video on YouTube, copy the share link into Newpipe and watch there.
- dyauspitr 8mo agoWhat do you mean by pleasant? Is this primarily something for Android users?
- scotty79 8mo agoLeaner. No ads in layout. Better organized. Not cluttered by buttons nobody asked for.
- mikae1 8mo agoIt's a native Android app vs. a bloated multi MB web page. Of course NewPipe and PipePipe are better. :)
- faust201 8mo agoIf you have a $100 phone then UI is lighter as compared to running firefox etc.
- WickyNilliams 8mo ago
- super256 8mo agoI found pipepipe to be more stable, break less and have more features. https://pipepipe.dev/ https://pipepipe.dev/
- FireInsight 8mo agoHow can it be more stable if it still uses NewpipeExtractor?
- super256 8mo agoApparently they forked the extractor some years ago and have been maintaining it independently, without merging anything from the original branch.
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 8mo ago"IME newpipe breaks every few weeks or so, presumably because of some youtube change / obfuscation." Same experience. I have a commandline program I wrote to retrieve YouTube download URLs many years ago. On average it has always been more reliable than Newpipe. It continues to work when Newpipe fails and I can fix it quickly when there is a YouTube change However I noticed recently Newpipe, the original, not SponsorBlock, old version, no updates, had been going many weeks without failure. When it eventually failed I was able to get it working again immediately by simply changing the www.youtube.com IPv4 address Will try this again when it fails the next time
- fuzztester 8mo agoWhy did you think of changing the ip address?
- brnt 8mo agoRate limiting IP addresses is one of the many tools in YouTube's anti 3rd party client toolbox.
- fuzztester 7mo agogot it, thanks.
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- faust201 8mo agoA few years is different case. Invidious is also getting blocked easily. Are you running it now? If yes, then report.
- agile-gift0262 8mo agoI am running it, and I used to use NewPipe before. I honestly don't notice much difference in stability. In both cases I would experience issues every couple of months for a day or 2. As YouTube made some change and I need to upgrade the app or server to resolve it. I wouldn't say one is better than another. Both have different advantages and drawbacks that come mostly from the nature of one being an app and the other being a server+web
- distances 8mo agoNot every week, more like a couple of times a year when YouTube makes some breaking changes. Personally I take these periods as healthy time off from YouTube, so I'm no longer even annoyed by them.