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Invidious

Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube. Created by Omar Roth

Free Open Source
Web

An alternative front-end to YouTube

## Official Onion Sites:
* kgg2m7yk5aybusll.onion
* axqzx4s6s54s32yentfqojs3x5i7faxza6xo3ehd4bzzsg2ii4fv2iid.onion

## Features:
* Audio-only mode (and no need to keep window open on mobile)
* Open-source (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 ... More Info »

* 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, preferences
* Does not use any of the official YouTube APIs
* Developer API

Invidious is listed in

Google Alternatives and "Do Not Track" - software.

Links to official Invidious sites

Official Website GitHub

Features

Ad-free Allows subscriptions Download videos from youtube Embeddable Lightweight Night mode/Dark Theme No download Work without JavaScript No Login Required No registration required Play web video Privacy focused Watchlists Web-Based Add a feature

Category

Tags

tor youtube-player youtube-videos

Invidious was added by Nonon in Jan 2019 and the latest update was made in May 2020. The list of alternatives was updated Apr 2020. It's possible to update the information on Invidious or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

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