Invidious
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Invidious is a free and open-source alternative frontend to YouTube. It is available as a Docker container, or from the GitHub master branch. It is intended to be used as a lightweight and "privacy-respecting" alternative to the official YouTube website. Many privacy preserving redirecting software as well as YouTube clients use Invidious instances.
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Using Invidious: Select a public instance from the list and start watching videos right now! 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. Creating an account is not required, but recommended, especially if you want to contribute regularly. Weblate also allows you to log-in with major SSO providers like GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket, Google, ... You may view the LICENSE in which this software is provided to you here.
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- invidious.io
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- source code repository URL
- gitea.invidious.io/iv-org/invidious
- issue tracker URL
- github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues
- software version identifier
- 2.20260207.0
- IRC channel URL
- irc://irc.freenode.net/#invidious
- user manual URL
- github.com/iv-org/documentation
- inception
- 2018-08-13
- publication date
- 2018-08-13
- hashtag
- Invidious
- social media followers
- 2205
- Commons category
- Invidious
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Invidious is a free and open-source alternative frontend to YouTube. It is available as a Docker container, or from the GitHub master branch. It is intended to be used as a lightweight and "privacy-respecting" alternative to the official YouTube website. Many privacy preserving redirecting software as well as YouTube clients use Invidious instances.
Invidious does not use the official YouTube API but scrapes the website for video and metadata such as likes and views. This is done intentionally to decrease the amount of data shared with Google, but YouTube can still see a user's IP address. The web-scraping tool is called the Invidious Developer API. It is also partially used in the free and open-source app, Yattee.