Invidious
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Invidious is a free and open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.[2][3] It is available as a Docker container,[4] or from the GitHub master branch.[5] It is intended to be used as a lightweight and "privacy-respecting" alternative to the official YouTube website.[2] Many privacy preserving redirecting software as well as YouTube clients use Invidious instances.[6][7][8][9]
Original author(s) | Omar Roth |
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Developer(s) | Samantaz Fox, unixfox, Matthew McGarvey[1] |
Initial release | August 13, 2018; 5 years ago (2018-08-13) |
Stable release | 2024.03.20-67980a2
/ March 20, 2024; 33 days ago (2024-03-20) |
Repository | Mirror from GitHub: gitea |
Written in | Crystal, HTML, JavaScript |
Type | Frontend |
License | AGPLv3 |
Website | invidious |
Invidious does not use the official YouTube API but scrapes the website for video and metadata such as likes and views.[10] This is done intentionally to decrease the amount of data shared with Google.[citation needed] The web-scraping tool is called the Invidious Developer API.[10] It is also partially used in the free and open-source app, Yattee.[11]