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Revision as of 01:08, 23 November 2019
YouTube is the second most popular website in the world, behind only Google. However, unlike Google, YouTube does not function at all without proprietary JavaScript (see The JavaScript Trap). This guide describes a number of options for accessing this wealth of knowledge and entertainment. It also provides alternatives to posting videos to YouTube so we can reduce our dependence on it.
Contents
Invidious
By far the easiest option is to use a public instance of invidious.
Youtube links looks like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaA1a1AaA-a
Invidious links look like this: https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=AaA1a1AaA-a
Links can be manually changed or converted with an add-on.
self-hosting invidious
Command-line Programs
youtube-dl
Open a terminal.
Install youtube-dl on a Debian based system.
sudo apt install -y youtube-dl
Download a video with a command like this:
youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaA1a1AaA-a
ytdl
RSS
You can get an RSS feed of a channel if you have its ID like so:
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id={channel_id}
