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<p>I recently stumbled across <a href=https://yewtu.be>yewtu.be</a> and found it intriguing. It not only allows for you 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. I wondered what sort of wizardry was going on under the hood and discovered 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>Wow, this is cool, and <strong>JavaScript is not required</strong>.</p>
<p>I started to use yewtu.be as my primary client for watching videos. I subscribe to about a dozen channels and I really only want to a see list of the latest videos from my subscriptions, and not be the victim of a proprietry algorithm feeding me new content. A few days ago, yewtu.be went down briefly, and that motivated me enough to self-host inviduous.</p>
<p>There are several other hosted instances of inviduous listed <a href=https://docs.invidious.io/instances/>here</a>, but being able to easily backup my own instance (along with watch history) is more compelling in my case.</p>
<p>I started to use yewtu.be as my primary client for watching videos. I subscribe to about a dozen channels and I really only want to a see list of the latest videos from my subscriptions, and not be the victim of a proprietry algorithm feeding me new content. A few days ago, yewtu.be went down briefly, and that motivated me enough to self-host invidious.</p>
<p>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 (along with watch history) is more compelling in my case.</p>
<h3 id=hosting-invidious>Hosting invidious</h3>
<p>The quickest way to get invidious up is with docker-compose as mentioned in the <a href=https://docs.invidious.io/installation/>docs</a>.</p>
<p>I made a few modifications (such as pinning the container&rsquo;s tag), and ended up with:</p>
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</span></code></pre></div><p>After invidious was up and running, I installed <a href=https://tailscale.com/>Tailscale</a> on it to leverage its MagicDNS, and I&rsquo;m now able to access this instance from anywhere at <a href=http://invidious:3000/feed/subscriptions>http://invidious:3000/feed/subscriptions</a>.</p>
<h3 id=redirecting-youtube-links>Redirecting YouTube links</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 inviduous.</p>
<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>Without subjecting my entire household to this, 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>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 inviduous setup. There doesn&rsquo;t appear to be a way to stream in 4K yet.</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>
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