[HN Gopher] LibreTube: Alternative YouTube front end for Android... ___________________________________________________________________ LibreTube: Alternative YouTube front end for Android built with Piped Author : marcodiego Score : 40 points Date : 2022-03-20 20:44 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (f-droid.org) (TXT) w3m dump (f-droid.org) | charcircuit wrote: | This is missing too many features to be useful for me. | | - no live chat on streams | | - no personalized recommendation feed | | - no community posts | | - no membership videos / community posts | | - no notifications for streams / uploads / community posts / | replies / reminders for upcoming streams | | - no shorts on the home page | | - no comment section | | - no picture in picture mode | | - no saving where I left off in a video | | - no "My Mix" | | - making clips | | - watching clips | ssl232 wrote: | It has one very useful feature though, that it's not made by | Google. | charcircuit wrote: | That is meaningless to me if the app can't do what I need it | to do. I don't need every feature of the YouTube app, but | there is some key functionality that I need. | seb1204 wrote: | Sounds like this solution is not for you then. | gotostatement wrote: | could google interfere w/ the API's that are used to make this | work? | rektide wrote: | sure, absolutely. ultimately though their clients generally are | pretty reversible & we can keep doing whatever they do, but | better and improved. | | which is what makes humanity & society great- iteration & | refinement & self-determinism. try as the sad pathetic squalid | soulless ghouls might, the attempts to suppress soul & dignity | are themselves usually temporary & brief regainings of | control/destructions of human will. | c0balt wrote: | Anytime a breaking API change happens in the API used by | YouTubes frontend apps like piped[0] (the YouTube interface for | this project) or NewPipe[1] tend to break too. This is mostly | due the majority of these players not employing the Google | YouTube API but instead accessing and/ or scraping the publicly | available routes exposed for/ by the YouTube fronted. (You may | also find most of the streaming aspect is similiar/ the same as | youtube-dl) | | [0]: https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped [1]: | https://newpipe.net/ | moron4hire wrote: | Note that the YouTube API does not provide access to the | media streams for videos. And while Google does provide a | number of black-box-style widgets for embedding in apps or | webpages, they are not suitable for all use cases. For | example: every VR app that wants to include support for | YouTube playback has to use a scraping tool of some kind | because none of the embedding options can be rendered in 3D. | | EDIT: I'd love to be proven wrong here. But I've dug into the | code of several open source VR apps that include YouTube | playback and they all end in including youtube-dl or yt-dlp. | fredley wrote: | I'll stick with YouTube Vanced. As well as blocking ads, it | recently introduced a feature that skips over paid promotional | segments in (popular) videos. It's great! | | https://youtubevanced.com/ | Gucio wrote: | The official website is (was) https://vancedapp.com/ | | youtubevanced is not official, watch out | RL_Quine wrote: | Except for it being unmaintained. | ChrisClark wrote: | But they've stopped development on it, and it's only a matter | of time until it's dead due to Youtube changes. | Namidairo wrote: | They're shutting up shop and pulling all their builds soon. The | assumption being YouTube may have finally sent a cease and | desist. | [deleted] | einpoklum wrote: | How does it compare to NewPipe, feature-wise? Also, can someone | describe "piped" briefly? A DDG search yields too many irrelevant | results (e.g. | https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=piped) | slowbdotro wrote: | https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped is the code :) | [deleted] ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-03-20 23:00 UTC)