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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@lemmy.ml
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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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[–] zoe@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thank you. people like u are the ones who r making this world bearable enough to live in.

Hope u'r wary of the legal repercussions from Alphabet's side. this doesn't seem like a child's play :/

[–] dandroid@dandroid.app 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Testing the bot: https://youtu.be/Q8zDzZQCP38

[–] PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/Q8zDzZQCP38

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.

[–] dandroid@dandroid.app 6 points 1 year ago

Very nice.

[–] Kory@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

That rocks! Thank you @kavin@feddit.rocks !

[–] CraigeryTheKid 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't really speak github - is there a manual way to go to a YT video, but through Piped? Or is the new url more complicated than that?

[–] kavin@feddit.rocks 10 points 1 year ago

You can just change the hostname, for example, youtube.com to piped.video. Alternatively, you could just use something like Libredirect to automatically do it on your browser.

[–] jandar_fett@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe this makes me a dummy, but I don't understand the point of the bot? Like is it supposed to replace links that people post here from YouTube, with Piped instead?

[–] kavin@feddit.rocks 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes, that's somewhat the point. You can see it in action in this comment. Rather than replace, it allows people to see a Piped link too instead of YouTube one.

Here's a really cool YouTube video: https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ (the bot will reply to this)

[–] PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/dQw4w9WgXcQ

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.

[–] VITecNet@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

Good Bot.

[–] jandar_fett@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Cool way to show to explain it by showing it in action thanks a pot, you MVP you.

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