invidious/README.md
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# Invidious
## Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube
- Audio-only (and no need to keep window open on mobile)
- [Open-source](https://github.com/omarroth/invidious) (AGPLv3 licensed)
- No ads
- No need to create a Google account to save subscriptions
- Lightweight (homepage is ~4 KB compressed)
- Tools for managing subscriptions:
- Only show unseen videos
- Only show latest (or latest unseen) video from each channel
- Delivers notifications from all subscribed channels
- Automatically redirect homepage to feed
- Import subscriptions from YouTube
- Dark mode
- Embed support
- Set default player options (speed, quality, autoplay, loop)
- Does not require JS to play videos
- Support for Reddit comments in place of YT comments
- Import/Export subscriptions, watch history, preference
- Does not use any of the official YouTube APIs
Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/omarroth
Patreon: https://patreon.com/omarroth
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BCH: qq4ptclkzej5eza6a50et5ggc58hxsq5aylqut2npk
## Installation
### Installing [Crystal](https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal):
#### On Arch:
```bash
$ sudo pacman -S shards crystal
$ shards
```
#### On OSX:
```bash
$ brew update
$ brew install shards crystal-lang
$ shards
```
### Installing Postgres:
#### On Arch:
Install according to the [wiki](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PostgreSQL#Installing_PostgreSQL)
#### On OSX:
```bash
$ brew install postgres
```
### Setup Postgres:
```bash
$ ./setup.sh
```
### Installing ImageMagick (required for CAPTCHA):
#### On Arch:
```bash
$ sudo pacman -S imagemagick librsvg
```
## Usage:
```bash
$ crystal build src/invidious.cr
$ ./invidious
```
Or for development:
```bash
$ curl -fsSLo- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/samueleaton/sentry/master/install.cr | crystal eval
$ ./sentry
```
## Extensions
- [Alternate Tube Redirector](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/alternate-tube-redirector/): Automatically open Youtube Videos on alternate sites like Invidious or Hooktube.
- [Invidious Redirect](https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/370461-invidious-redirect): Redirects Youtube URLs to Invidio.us (userscript)
- [Invidio.us embed](https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/370442-invidious-embed): Replaces YouTube embeds with Invidio.us embeds (userscript)
## Contributing
1. Fork it ( https://github.com/omarroth/invidious/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request
## Contributors
- [omarroth](https://github.com/omarroth) - creator, maintainer