[HN Gopher] LibreTube: Alternative YouTube front end for Android...
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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.
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| - no live chat on streams
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| - no personalized recommendation feed
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| - no community posts
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| - no membership videos / community posts
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| - no notifications for streams / uploads / community posts /
| replies / reminders for upcoming streams
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| - no shorts on the home page
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| - no comment section
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| - no picture in picture mode
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| - no saving where I left off in a video
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| - no "My Mix"
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| - making clips
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| - 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)
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| [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.
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| 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]
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