Comment by ZinniaZirconium | Hacker News Reader

Comment by ZinniaZirconium | Hacker News Reader

ZinniaZirconium

Oh that's a shame.

> The API will continue to function until October 1st, to give time for any services relying on it to migrate to other solutions.

Aw no. I was thinking about using invidio.us in my own projects but now I guess I won't!

I have need of a YouTube streaming server, backend only, which I can embed on a web page. I made my own with youtubedown and bash but maintaining it is a pain since YouTube is always changing ciphers and also I forked youtubedown which means I need to adapt my changes to new versions when I upgrade.

So I was thinking of ditching my own and adopting an existing service. Trouble is existing services tend to stop existing. I made my own YouTube streaming server in the first place because I was using HMA YouTube proxy which was always breaking.

So this is a great reminder to me to keep maintaining my own YouTube streaming server.

[I'm using a different VPN today! Is it IP banned?! I don't know. Will this comment be [dead] on arrival?? I don't know!!]

There are many alternative instances, that's the great thing about projects like invidious.

https://instances.invidio.us

For your own projects, I would recommend relying on multiple instances anyway because if one has downtime you could just use another one.

Yes except the whole invidious project is rapidly being abandoned according to discussion on GitHub. The next breaking change in YouTube could break invidious forever if the project is unmaintained.

I just need to remember not to be lazy and to continue maintaining my fork of youtubedown. The only obstacle for me is I really don't use YouTube frequently so mostly it's a matter of remembering to do the necessary maintenance.

Why did you decide to fork youtubedown?

I forked youtubedown because it has too many features. I don't want to download any files and I don't want to mux DASH formats. All I want is a script that prints the 360p video url as fast as possible. And JWZ broke support for premuxed video which I added back. And JWZ broke support for requesting a specific cipher which I added back. Basically youtubedown development went in a direction which diverged from my use case.

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