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<section class="body"><p>I recently stumbled upon <a href="https://yewtu.be">yewtu.be</a> and found it intriguing. It not only allows you to watch YouTube without <em>being on YouTube</em>, but it also allows you to create an account and subscribe to channels without a Google account. What sort of wizardry is going on under the hood? It turns out that it&rsquo;s a hosted instance of <a href="https://invidious.io/">invidious</a>.</p>
<p><img src="/images/watching-youtube-in-private/computerphile.png" alt="requestly"></p>
<p><img src="computerphile.png" alt="image"></p>
<p>The layout is simple, and <strong>JavaScript is not required</strong>.</p>
<p>I started using <a href="https://yewtu.be">yewtu.be</a> as my primary client for watching videos. I subscribe to several YouTube channels and I prefer the interface invidiuous provides due to its simplicity. It&rsquo;s also nice to be in control of my search and watch history.</p>
<p>A few days ago, yewtu.be went down briefly, and that motivated me enough to self-host invidious. There are several other hosted instances listed <a href="https://docs.invidious.io/instances/">here</a>, but being able to easily backup my own instance (including subscriptions and watch history) is more compelling in my case.</p>
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<p>I made a few modifications (such as pinning the container&rsquo;s tag), and ended up with:</p>
<pre><code class="language-yaml">version: &quot;3&quot;
services:
invidious:
image: quay.io/invidious/invidious:5160d8bae39dc5cc5d51abee90571a03c08d0f2b
restart: unless-stopped
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<h3 id="redirecting-youtube-links">Redirecting YouTube links<a href="#redirecting-youtube-links" class="hanchor" ariaLabel="Anchor">#</a></h3>
<p>I figured it would be nice to redirect existing YouTube links that others send me, so that I could seamlessly watch the videos using invidious.</p>
<p>I went looking for a way to redirect paths at the browser level. I found the lightweight proxy <a href="https://requestly.io/">requestly</a>, which can be used to modify http requests in my browser. I created the following rules:</p>
<p><img src="/images/watching-youtube-in-private/requestly-rules.png" alt="requestly"></p>
<p><img src="requestly-rules.png" alt="requestly"></p>
<p>Now the link <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lz30by8-sU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lz30by8-sU</a> will redirect to <a href="http://invidious:3000/watch?v=-lz30by8-sU">http://invidious:3000/watch?v=-lz30by8-sU</a></p>
<p>I&rsquo;m still looking for ways to improve this invidious setup. There doesn&rsquo;t appear to be a way to stream in 4K yet.</p></section>