iv-org/invidious

Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube

Invidious

An open source alternative front-end to YouTube

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Features

User features

• Lightweight
• No ads
• No tracking
• No JavaScript required
• Light/Dark themes
• Customizable homepage
• Subscriptions independent from Google
• Notifications for all subscribed channels
• Audio-only mode (with background play on mobile)
• Support for Reddit comments
• Available in many languages, thanks to our translators

Data import/export

• Import subscriptions from YouTube, NewPipe and FreeTube
• Import watch history from YouTube and NewPipe
• Export subscriptions to NewPipe and FreeTube
• Import/Export Invidious user data

Technical features

• Embedded video support
• Developer API
• Does not use official YouTube APIs
• No Contributor License Agreement (CLA)

Quick start

Using Invidious:

• Select a public instance from the list and start watching videos right now!

Hosting Invidious:

• Follow the installation instructions

Documentation

The full documentation can be accessed online at https://docs.invidious.io/

The documentation's source code is available in this repository: https://github.com/iv-org/documentation

Extensions

We highly recommend the use of Privacy Redirect, a browser extension that automatically redirects YouTube URLs to any Invidious instance and replaces embedded YouTube videos on other websites with Invidious.

The documentation contains a list of browser extensions that we recommended to use along with Invidious.

You can read more here: https://docs.invidious.io/applications/

Contribute

Code

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/fork ).
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature).
3. Stage your files (git add .).
4. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add some feature').
5. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature).
6. Create a new pull request ( https://github.com/iv-org/invidi…