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[AGPL Violation] inv.skyn3t.in

This was discussed on Matrix awhile back.

Changes include:

• Rounded thumbnail in search results
• Hidden footer
• Different dark theme background color
• Centered title text on videos
  and possibly more.

The instance also hasn't been updated since March 28th.

@zer0-source as it looks like you're the maintainer, could you disclose the source for your Instance?

config vars incomplete

https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/blob/master/src/invidious/helpers/helpers.cr has more

I thought of not porting them manually, and automatically turning the defaults, comments to docs. 2h later I'm going to stop.

Either link to 'find more vars there, but beware the top level keys are wrong and there's bunch of other things as well' or watch the file for changes, and update docs accordingly.

ytprivate.com

HTTPS with DDoS protection from DDoS-Guard.
Hosted in the US.

[Bug] no instances list can be found at the official url

https://docs.invidious.io/Invidious-Instances.md or https://instances.invidious.io , which are the urls provided in this repository, returns a 404 error.

https://api.invidious.io/ and https://instances.invidio.us are the correct one, and they should probably be in the description of this repository and in the README.md .

Error during installation

I follow instruction for debian.

shards update; shards install
Resolving dependencies
Fetching https://github.com/will/crystal-pg.git
Fetching https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal-sqlite3.git
Fetching https://github.com/kemalcr/kemal.git
Fetching https://github.com/ysbaddaden/pool.git
Fetching https://github.com/iv-org/protodec.git
Fetching https://github.com/iv-org/lsquic.cr.git
Fetching https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal-db.git
Fetching https://github.com/luislavena/radix.git
Unable to satisfy the following requirements:

- `crystal (>= 0.35.0, < 2.0.0)` required by `pg 0.23.2`
- `crystal (>= 0.35.0, < 2.0.0)` required by `sqlite3 0.18.0`
- `crystal (~> 0.35, >= 0.35.0)` required by `kemal 0.27.0`
- `crystal (*)` required by `pool 0.2.4`
- `crystal (>= 0.34.0, < 2.0.0)` required by `protodec 0.1.4`
- `crystal (~> 0.35, >= 0.35.1)` required by `lsquic 2.18.1-1`
- `crystal (>= 0.35.0, < 2.0.0)` required by `db 0.10.1`
- `crystal (< 1.0.0)` required by `radix 0.3.9`
Failed to resolve dependencies, try updating incompatible shards or use --ignore-crystal-version as a workaround if no update is available.
Resolving dependencies
Fetching https://github.com/will/crystal-pg.git
Fetching https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal-db.git
Fetching https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal-sqlite3.git
Fetching https://github.com/kemalcr/kemal.git
Fetching https://github.com/luislavena/radix.git
Fetching https://github.com/jeromegn/kilt.git
Fetching https://github.com/crystal-loot/exception_page.git
Fetching https://github.com/ysbaddaden/pool.git
Fetching https://github.com/iv-org/protodec.git
Fetching https://github.com/iv-org/lsquic.cr.git
Unable to satisfy the following requirements:

- `crystal (>= 0.35.0, < 2.0.0)` required by `pg 0.23.1`
- `crystal (>= 0.35.0, < 2.0.0)` required by `sqlite3 0.18.0`
- `crystal (~> 0.35, >= 0.35.0)` required by `kemal 0.27.0`
- `crystal (< 1.0.0)` required by `pool 0.2.3`
- `crystal (~> 0.34, >= 0.34.0)` required by `protodec 0.1.3`
- `crystal (~> 0.35, >= 0.35.1)` required by `lsquic 2.18.1-1`
- `crystal (~> 0.35, >= 0.35.0)` required by `db 0.10.0`
- `crystal (< 1.0.0)` required by `radix 0.3.9`
Failed to resolve dependencies, try updating incompatible shards or use --ignore-crystal-version as a workaround if no update is available.

[AGPL Violation] flixify.com

https://flixify.com/feed/popular
Seems like both the service name and footer has been modified. They also don't seem to disclose the source anywhere from what I can see.

Are live streams unsupported?

I've tried a few youtube live streams and they all just get a spinner forever, but regular videos play fine, and I tried one of the live streams a while after it ended and it played fine too. So is playing live streams unsupported? If so, could you please document that limitation and ideally display an error to the user when they try to join a live stream?

Here are a couple warnings I see over and over in my console log when I try to play a live stream which I didn't see with a regular video. Maybe this is related and is helpful?

VIDEOJS: WARN: Problem encountered with the current HLS playlist. HLS playlist request error at URL:
VIDEOJS: WARN: Removing all playlists from the blacklist because the last rendition is about to be blacklisted.

How we we add our instance to uptime.invidio.us?

Documentation requires JavaScript

Ironically, given that one of the listed features of Invidious is "Javascript is 100% optional", https://docs.invidious.io/ requires JS to even show page content, in an egregious example of shitty, worst-practice web development on the part of Wiki.js :J

New public instance

Hi! I want to share my new public instance:

https://notyoutube.org

New Invidious Instance

Hi,

I've set a new Invidious instance, and would like to join public instances list

URL

https://y.com.cm/

Location

server is located in Germany with Cloudflare enabled

Age restricted videos don't work

Add instance invidious.exonip.de

https://invidious.exonip.de/
Running on german server on a contabo (http://contabo.de/) vps.
Using docker (source not modified) and Nginx proxy and apache2 proxy
Not using any Web statistics

Broken endpoint

https://docs.invidious.io/en/Always-use-%22local%22-to-proxy-video-through-the-server-without-creating-an-account is broken

On GitHub: https://github.com/iv-org/documentation/blob/master/Always-use-%22local%22-to-proxy-video-through-the-server-without-creating-an-account.md

It is probably because of " "

Generate the documentation statically

We should use a static page generator instead of WikiJS for the documentation, it's much more stable and can be hosted on GitHub pages.

Candidates:

• Jekyll
• Hugo
• MkDocs
• Hexo
• Something else?

Example for authentification

Let's say I have a account and want the Feed or my subscriptions, what would I have to do, using curl?

There is 1 default Token that comes with the installation do I use that to directly get the feed or do you I create a new token with that token as authentication?

I just understand or can make it work, I am no oauth expert I assume it's based ot that right?

500 Error When Sorting By Version

When sorting by version on: https://instances.invidio.us/?sort_by=health a 500 error is thrown.

invidious.exonip.de is outdated

@Exonip please update!

If this isn't done by Friday 13th, we'll have to remove your instance from the public list.

Add instance invidious.silkky.cloud.

https://invidious.silkky.cloud

The instance is hosted in Finland on a Hetzner dedicated server (AX41-NVMe). Vanilla invidious, no analytics or Cloudflare.

Mozilla Observatory:
https://observatory.mozilla.org/analyze/invidious.silkky.cloud

Config (docker): https://github.com/TheSilkky/invidious-silkkycloud/

If anything is wrong with my configuration please let me know.

New instances

Hello I found 2 new instances for invidious
https://www.pvcy.top/feed/popular
https://iteroni.com/feed/popular

lack of documentation on account creating and benefits

Hello!

Couldn't find any info on what kind of account should I choose to be able to add comments and if that possibility is present at all. Tried to log in with G-account using app password but it failed. And I have strong habit not to put initial G-pass outside of their products.

Would be very helpful to have a page on accounts in wiki. Could people who already use it write one?

Add https://youtube.076.ne.jp

Please add → https://youtube.076.ne.jp
Sarver rocation: japan

Link to instances.invidious.io/Invidious-Instances.md returns 404

<!-- Please use the search function to check if the bug you found has already been reported by someone else -->

Okay, found it: iv-org/invidious#2139

Describe the bug

Logs

Screenshots

Additional context

Continuing discussion in the existing issue is prohibited. (???)

1080p?

Is there no way to set video quality higher than 720p? Adding "&quality=dash" to the URL doesn't seem to work.

invidious.xyz is outdated.

invidious.xyz is running 0.20.1-99ba987 @ master, a commit from 26 of nov, 2020. It still has the "nil assertion failed" error when trying to access channels.

iv-org/invidious@99ba987

Add noscript redirection

Redirect or at least link to this GitHub repo on https://docs.invidious.io if JavaScript is disabled.

Add our instance please

This is our instance https://ytb.trom.tf/ - we update it very often and use anti-captcha.com. We test it daily with tens of videos.

Uptime website is down

I keep on hearing that an uptime website exists, but the link i found is not working.

Uptime for onion instances?

Would it be possible to also monitor the health of Invidious instances hosted on onions? For example right now two of them http://fz253lmuao3strwbfbmx46yu7acac2jz27iwtorgmbqlkurlclmancad.onion/ http://qklhadlycap4cnod.onion/ always give back 502 Bad Gateway. It'd be nice to know via the api which ones are usable, like the https instances.

CC0 license doesn't work

It is impossible to work together on CC0 material in a collaborative fashion with people from multiple jurisdictions, which effectively renders it null and void.

Willing to put effort into fixing it up and getting it translated if it gets a better license.

New Instance

WWW:
https://invidious.hub.ne.kr
TOR:
vrg2a4cdxlngik5fkx6hbkslmd6yybsnot5bcegx6cfc7xja2t4r4zqd.onion

This is a new instance in Singapore.
Use https and no tracker or Cloudflare.

Thanks!

New invidious instance: https://invidious.s1gm4.eu (S1GM4 CHATONS)

For S1GM4 CHATONS, we have installed an instance of Invidious.

We have not done any software modification, and if we will, it will be added to our gitea forge: https://forge.s1gm4.eu

You can found this instance here: https://invidious.s1gm4.eu

Request Subtitles/Closed Captions (CC) availability support for the hearing impaired

I would appreciate an option to know if a video has closed captions available near the thumbnail(like on youtube) in the search results and the channel page.

Thanks.

New Clearnet Instance

• https://invidious.tinfoil-hat.net
  hit me with a mail, if there's any problem

tube.connect.cafe is miss-configured

@vinyll you seems to be the maintainer, since you're the one who added the instance.

Something is broken on tube.connect.cafe, making some CSS not load (see the links color).

The browser console is reporting: "The resource from “https://tube.connect.cafe/” was blocked due to MIME type mismatch (X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff)."

Note: this miss-configuration doesn't seem to affect some browser configuration and/or Chromium-based browser.

PS: the instance is also HEAVILY outdated, and is currently mostly broken.

PS-2: At first I suspected an AGPL violation, so you should definitely configure your stuff correctly.

New Invidious Instance (05/23/2021)

Hey,

I am hosting the invidious instance and will be making sure it is up almost 24/7 so for users wanting to get a invidious with best uptime you guys can watch it here. We have best ddos protection and almost 100% uptime with uptime robot. Come check us out!

Instance - https://invidious.criminal.sh/feed/trending
Uptime Robot - https://status.criminal.sh/

Add directions to export subscriptions from YouTube -

Google recently removed the "Export Subscriptions" option from the bottom of the Manage Subscriptions page. This, combined with a bug in Google Takeout means you must follow a very specific process to export your subscriptions. It would be helpful to add the process below to the Invidious documentation somewhere:

NOTE: This process won't work if you go directly to Google Takeout. You must enter the Takeout process via YouTube as described below.

1. Make sure you are signed into YouTube with the account you want to export subscriptions for.
2. Click on your profile image in the upper right corner.
3. Click on the "Your data in YouTube" option.
4. Click "More"
5. Click "Download YouTube data"
6. Click "All YouTube data included"
7. Click "Deselect all"
8. Choose "channel-memberships"
9. Click "OK"
10. Click "Next step"
11. Click "Create export"
12. Wait for the export to complete, it should be fairly quick.
13. Download the export, it will be a .zip file.
14. Expand the ZIP file.
15. Go to Invidious, click the little gear in the upper right corner.
16. Scroll down and click "Import/export data"
17. Click the "Browse" button next to "Import YouTube subscriptions"
18. Browse to the path you expanded the ZIP file to, there should be a "Takeout" folder.
19. Open "./Takeout/YouTube and YouTube Music/subscriptions/subscriptions.json".
20. Choose "Import"

New Invidious Instance

Hello,

I have added an Invidious at; https://invidious.worldofmatthew.com/

Location: United Kingdom

Host: Oracle Cloud (No Cloudflare or any other CDN used)

Thank You

Matthew Morgan

Proposal for automatic instance list maintenance

Once either #74 or #76 is merged we should be able to automate instance list maintenance through github actions. Here's an idea of how this may work:

1. Query instance API
2. Scans each instance and
   • Validate version date to make sure it is less than thirty days away from iv-org/invidious's latest commit.
   • Validate health to be >= 90%
3. If either check fails it is removed.
4. Create PR with the changes.

Looks like you've found a bug in Invidious. (Maybe not)

Looks like you've found a bug in Invidious. Please open a new issue on GitHub and include the following text in your message:
Title: Unexpected char '<' at 1:1 (JSON::ParseException)
Date: 2021-02-18T04:57:29Z
Route: /channel/UCgTxdmY7L0I5MKWrrf0Ejtg
Version: 2021.01.31-26ce0eb @ (HEAD detached at 26ce0eb)

Backtrace

Unexpected char '<' at 1:1 (JSON::ParseException)
  from ../../../usr/share/crystal/src/json/lexer.cr:371:7 in 'raise'
  from ../../../usr/share/crystal/src/json/lexer.cr:367:5 in 'unexpected_char'
  from ../../../usr/share/crystal/src/json/lexer.cr:366:11 in 'unexpected_char'
  from ../../../usr/share/crystal/src/slice.cr:229:5 in 'next_token'
  from ../../../usr/share/crystal/src/json/parser.cr:13:12 in 'get_60_videos'
  from src/invidious.cr:1716:20 in '->'
  from lib/kemal/src/kemal/route.cr:13:9 in '->'
  from ../../../usr/share/crystal/src/primitives.cr:255:3 in 'call'
  from ../../../usr/share/crystal/src/http/server/handler.cr:28:7 in 'call'
  from ../../../usr/share/crystal/src/http/server/handler.cr:28:7 in 'call_next'
  from lib/kemal/src/kemal/filter_handler.cr:21:7 in 'call'
  from ../../../usr/share/crystal/src/http/server/handler.cr:28:7 in 'call_next'
  from ../../../usr/share/crystal/src/http/server/handler.cr:28:7 in 'call_next'
  from ../../../usr/share/crystal/src/http/server/handler.cr:28:7 in 'call_next'
  from ../../../usr/share/crystal/src/http/server/handler.cr:28:7 in 'call_next'
  from ../../../usr/share/crystal/src/http/server/handler.cr:28:7 in 'call_next'
  from src/invidious/helpers/static_file_handler.cr:189:11 in 'call'
  from ../../../usr/share/crystal/src/http/server/handler.cr:28:7 in 'call'
  from ../../../usr/share/crystal/src/time.cr:356:5 in 'call'
  from ../../../usr/share/crystal/src/http/server/handler.cr:28:7 in 'call_next'
  from lib/kemal/src/kemal/init_handler.cr:12:7 in 'process'
  from ../../../usr/share/crystal/src/http/server.cr:498:5 in '->'
  from ../../../usr/share/crystal/src/primitives.cr:255:3 in 'run'
  from ???

Dashvideo quality

Hi when I use the dash video option is always buffers at 10 seconds on the video is there anything you could do to fix it ?

Update API specs

It is outdated and some fields are missing, e.g. you can have premiereTimestamp in /api/v1/search endpoint, it's only specified in /api/v1/videos/:videoId

New Instance

Clearnet:

• https://invidious.tinfoil-hat.net
  hit me with a mail, if there's any problem

AUS Location Under YTPrivate Domain

I'm not sure if having an AUS location now at https://au.ytprivate.com justifies another entry. Please let me know.

[Question] What's the purpose of keeping unmaintained and broken instances on the documentation?

I'm curious as to why Invidious is listing outdated and broken instances rather than removing them from the documentation altogether.

Add a document explaining how to test IP block

Someone had an issue and I needed them to test for IP block, however I had to look if someone ever send a quick one liner for it, and I found that.

iv-org/invidious#811 (comment)

iv-org/invidious#811 (comment)

We need a documentation page with it.

Remove inv.skyn3t.in from unmaintained

instance has been updated

invidious.zee.li

HTTPS & Cloudflare - https://invidious.zee.li

Tor - invidious.3o7z6yfxhbw7n3za4rss6l434kmv55cgw2vuziwuigpwegswvwzqipyd.onion

NYC, US Hosted

New instance(s)

At your convenience, please consider adding these:

• Clearnet: https://tube.incog.host/

• Tor: http://tuberyps2pn6dor6h47brof3w2asmauahhk4ei42krugybzzzo55klad.onion/

• I2P: http://vipzc556nzjraiqsk5xwvyhz54fvtqt3vrepdarat3zsj4a6eypq.b32.i2p/ (or tube.i2p, though the B32 url will work for all)

• Yggdrasil Network: http://[200:46bf:ee17:939:f846:572f:72db:d4d]/

These are my own. No Cloudflare, located in Luxembourg which isn't represented in the list yet and open registration.

[Enhancement] Add crystal version requirement to installation guide