Piped: A privacy-friendly YouTube front end which is efficient by design

Re:Piped: A privacy-friendly YouTube front end which is effi... by notafraudster on Saturday July 17, 2021 @06:54PM (#27869441)

I can't tell based on the GitHub description whether this is a website or some code you run locally. Like, I don't really know what a replacement front-end is. Is it a Chrome extension? I clicked the documentation and that didn't really answer anything for me. It's a Java backend, a Golang proxy, and a JS frontend? How do I actually use it?

I tried Googling "piped" and "piped youtube" and couldn't find any reference so I assume it's not a website. I could imagine using this, but not if I have to run it myself.

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Re:Piped: A privacy-friendly YouTube front end which is effi... by cyounkins on Saturday July 17, 2021 @06:58PM (#27869461)

I think it is what is running at https://piped.kavin.rocks/

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Re:Piped: A privacy-friendly YouTube front end which is effi... by andrewzah on Saturday July 17, 2021 @07:37PM (#27869662)

Essentially you self-host it and it operates, I assume, via YouTube’s API or scraping.

Invidious is another alternative frontend to youtube. I use it because it loads much faster than YT and it has an API that makes it easy for me to batch download my playlists. However it occasionally gets authentication errors and I have to restart the service manually.

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Re:Piped: A privacy-friendly YouTube front end which is effi... by hi5eyes on Saturday July 17, 2021 @08:17PM (#27869823)

invidio.us is a much cleaner experience compared to default youtube/cancer youtube search too

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Re:Piped: A privacy-friendly YouTube front end which is effi... by emanuelpina on Saturday July 17, 2021 @08:22PM (#27869847)

There're two instances at the moment: https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped/wiki/Instances

Here's the documentation, including how to self-host an instance: https://piped-docs.kavin.rocks/

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Re:Piped: A privacy-friendly YouTube front end which is effi... by denton-scratch on Sunday July 18, 2021 @04:11AM (#27871494)

Ah, Docker. Looks like you have to run a minimum of TWO servers (or containers). You need a Java 11 server, and at least one golang proxy. Looks like "self-hosting" means, in practice, cloud hosting.

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Re:Piped: A privacy-friendly YouTube front end which is effi... by danielheath on Sunday July 18, 2021 @04:30AM (#27871552)

I mean, two docker containers isn’t zero overhead but it’s a long way from “needs multiple boxes and you have to pay someone to manage it”.

A systemd unit file to run a docker container isn’t a hard thing to write.

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Re:Piped: A privacy-friendly YouTube front end which is effi... by denton-scratch on Sunday July 18, 2021 @05:51AM (#27871765)

I don't use Docker or systemd. I don't need to rehearse my objections to systemd; I object to Docker because it's a proprietary skin wrapped around open-source container mechanisms.

I run Xen VMs, and I don't want to dedicate two VMs to something like this (my VM host has 16GB of RAM).

I'm not saying this solution is no good; it's just not a match for me.

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Re:Piped: A privacy-friendly YouTube front end which is effi... by nargek on Monday July 19, 2021 @05:47AM (#27880737)

Why would you have to dedicate two vm ? You can use containers (LXC) and that's it.

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Re:Piped: A privacy-friendly YouTube front end which is effi... by denton-scratch on Monday July 19, 2021 @08:26AM (#27881847)

I could use LXC; I looked into it about 5 years ago, and it looked reasonable. But I can only administer a limited number of technology bundles, and I went with Xen for virtual hosting. If I deployed Piped as LXC, I'd have to figure out how to do it (LXC is not The Docker Way, and the installation instructions are for Docker).

I don't mind admin work - I quite like it - but for me, it's pure overhead, since I run nothing else under LXC.

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Re:Piped: A privacy-friendly YouTube front end which is effi... by maccolgan on Monday July 19, 2021 @10:10PM (#27889427)

Try Podman, I think you'll like it.

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