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Youtube/Peertube hybrid client? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by minimar@lemmy.world to c/foss

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I've recently decided I don't want to browse youtube via the whole 'recommended' frontpage anymore, I want to switch to a purely subscription-based feed. This means I'll need to use a third party frontend/client, as the official sub box is algorithmic.

However, I've always been interested in peertube and love to try to use it whenever I can, but unfortunately, the content just isn't there yet to use it exclusively. There already exists clients that let you use either service, but that's not quite what I'm after.

What I'm looking for is a client with a sub feed that takes from both services. I can subscribe to a channel on youtube, and another on peertube, and my sub feed will display both together. Does such a thing exist?

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[–] minimar@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

newpipe is great! But, it's only for mobile, I need a desktop solution, too.

[–] biangbiangnoodle@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

uh oh. uhhhhhhhh i'm afraid not. i think something you could do is get an RSS feed of all the channels you want (i don't remember if youtube still does this or not but i think peertube does) and use a feed reader to aggregate all of your inputs together on a convenient feed. but, other than that, i am far from certain.

[–] TofuSauce 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

youtube does still create a rss feed ^^ To get the url you need to tweak it a little, and some rss feaders even find it by themselves with just the channel link

[–] un_ax@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

The rss definition is on the videos page, so if you paste in the youtube/c/channelname/videos page to the RSS reader it should be able to find it.

If it's really old, the direct feeds are https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=[id] but you have to hunt down a real channel id and not just a url slug.

[–] RiseAndShine 6 points 1 year ago

FreeTube is what you're looking for. LibreTube, Newpipe and FreeTube can import/export each-others subscriptions too

[–] cnx@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago

I use a web feed reader (Liferea) and open videos in mpv. Actually I usually open PeerTube videos in the browser to give it a thumb up and possibly help with delivery, but mpv can play them too.