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Piped
An open-source alternative frontend for YouTube which is efficient by design.
The Problem
YouTube has an extremely invasive privacy policy which relies on using user data in unethical ways. You give them a lot of data – ranging from ideas, music taste, content, political opinions, and much more than you think.
By using Piped, you can freely watch and listen to content freely without the fear of prying eyes watching everything you are doing.
Features:
User Features
No Ads
No Tracking
Lightweight on server and client
Infinite Scrolling
Light/Dark themes
Login
Feeds
Playlists
Integration with SponsorBlock
Integration with LBRY for streaming
4K support
No connections to Google’s servers
Playing just audio
PWA support
Support for iOS
Locally saved Preferences
Available in many languages, thanks to our translators
Embedded video support
Technical Features
Multi-region load-balancing
Performant by design, designed to handle 1000s of users concurrently
Does not use official YouTube APIs
Uses NewPipeExtractor to extract information
Public JSON API
Screenshots
Player
Trending
Channel
Public Chat Rooms
You can join us via Matrix at #piped.
You can also join us at the libera.chat IRC network which is bridged to the Matrix room at #piped.
Self-Hosting
See https://piped-docs.kavin.rocks/docs/self-hosting/ for more details.
The source code of the documentation website is available at https://github.com/TeamPiped/Documentation.
Documentation
The documentation can be found at https://piped-docs.kavin.rocks (accessible via IPNS as well).
Extensions
To redirect all YouTube links to Piped, you are highly recommended to use either Piped-Redirects or Privacy Redirect.
Contributing
Translations
You can help by translating the project to a language you speak at https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/piped/frontend/
Forking, and contributing
Fork the repository on GitHub: https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped/fork
Create your feature branch: git checkout -b my-awesome-feature
Stage your files git add .
Commit your changes git commit -am ‘Add awesome new feature’
Push to the branch git push origin my-awesome-feature
Create a new pull request: https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped-Redirects/compare
Development Setup
Compiles and hot-reloads for development
You can now make changes and view then in realtime!
Contact
If you would like to contact me personally, you may do so with the following means:
Matrix: @kavin1337:matrix.org
Mastodon: https://mastodon.online/@kavin
Email: [email protected]
Donations
Donations can be made at:
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FIAT donations can be made at: https://liberapay.com/kavin
Contributions in any other form are also welcomed.
Made with Piped
Yattee – an alternative frontend for YouTube, for IOS.
LibreTube [WIP] – an alternative frontend for YouTube, for Android.
YourKit
YourKit has given an open source license for their profiler, greatly simplifying the profiling of Piped’s performance.
YourKit supports open source projects with its full-featured Java Profiler.
YourKit, LLC is the creator of YourKit Java Profiler
and YourKit .NET Profiler,
innovative and intelligent tools for profiling Java and .NET applications.