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Lemmy bot to automatically reply to YouTube links with Piped ones (feddit.rocks)

submitted 1 year ago by kavin@feddit.rocks to c/technology

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cross-posted from: https://feddit.rocks/post/3214

So I created an open-source Lemmy bot to reply to posts/comments with YouTube links with converted Piped links to preserve your privacy.

Piped is an open-source alternative privacy-friendly frontend to YouTube. You can watch the same content from YouTube without connecting to Google's servers.

You can find the source code at: https://github.com/TeamPiped/lemmy-piped-link-bot

You can find Piped's source code at: https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped

PS: I'm the author of Piped :P

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[–] Monomate@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If Piped is basically a proxy to access YouTube videos, who pays for this proxy (which shouldn't be cheap)?

[–] kavin@feddit.rocks 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I currently host the official instance, which is entirely run by donations. However, there are many community instances people can switch to in the preferences menu on the site. They are listed at https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped/wiki/Instances

[–] Starmina@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And I would like to add that one can download "Yattee" (Privacy oriented video player for iOS, tvOS and macOS), and add any instance from this list by adding its URL in Parameters > Instances > Personalized instance. It's really an awesome client.

[–] kavin@feddit.rocks 2 points 1 year ago

You have a similar project for Android called Libretube :) Here's a list of projects that use Piped's API: https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped#made-with-piped

[–] secret_ninja@feddit.nl 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow! Thanks for this. I usually use invidious but I’m not super happy with it; Piped looks great!

[–] averyminya 2 points 1 year ago

I signed up for it sometime last week. Created an account, subbed to about 50 channels and organized them with the categories you can make. Well, unfortunately I guess there was some bug where logging in and viewing trending and feed was happening. Submitted a bug report with details, one other also had the issue, within 2 days they said there was a fix out. Within 14 hours after that I saw the reflected changes! Was able to login to my account again and everything was still there. Been rock solid ever since!

[–] OneRedFox 4 points 1 year ago

Just tried Piped for the first time and was sold when I got a page full of actually relevant search results instead of 6 relevant search results and then a bunch of garbage like I get on regular YouTube. Nicely done. 👍