It’s a thankless job
I actually wish it’d come back; I can’t stand being sent to YouTube.
Wait, is it gone?
I mean I haven’t seen it in 2-3 months.
It’s still here for me, it could be blocked on your instance
I’ll edit my post if he replies to me
I blocked it a while ago, so no idea.
Amén.
Although, I wish it worked on any device I have
It replied to a comment I made just a day or two ago. It’s definitely not gone.
It would be stupid, but very funny if someone created a YouTube bot for Piped links…
They’d get into an endless loop of responding to each other. Just a regular internet conversation then
Like when the reddit lotr bots get stuck in a loop.
Needed one the other day because the post only had the Piped one and Piped never loads for me. When it briefly used to load then it would buffer constantly.
What is the etiquette for posting YT links in this scenario? If the content is from YT I’d prefer to post the canonical link instead of a mirror that may go down or may get hugged to death. If you’d rather view on a mirror I’d suggest you use e.g. LibRedirect. Does this make sense? Are there better ideas? I’d like to promote non-YT frontends but am not sure what the best option here would be.
I would say just post the YT link and let folks do what they want with it. When someone only posts a piped link I don’t bother clicking because they are very unreliable for me and I pay for YouTube so I like to just use it and not deal with the bs.
It would be nice if client apps allowed URL rewriting. I’m on iOS and I doubt Apple will make system-wide URL rewriting possible (ignoring jailbreaking).
On Android you can assign alternative apps as a standard app for specific URLs. This works just fine without root etc. via the regular app settings. E.g. in my case YouTube links from everywhere (mail program, browser, lemmy, …) open automatically in the privacy-friendly NewPipe app from F-Droid.
Where have u set this option I can’t find it in settings some time ago I have probably set YouTube as default since I can’t chose a different app …
In Android 14: Settings / App Settings / / Default opening (Terms might be slightly different. As my Android isn’t in English, I had to translate it.)
First go to the official YouTube app (if installed) and remove the binding. Then, go to NewPipe (or your preferred client) and set the binding there.
Typically, you can find the setting by holding down on the app’s icon, tapping the icon that looks like an “i” inside an “o”, and tapping on “Open by default”. After that, make sure “Open supported links” is on, and then tap “+ Add link” to add more supported links. That’s how it is on my phone, anyway.
Like you said, if you (or Google) have already set a default (for example, YouTube links always opening in the YouTube app), you have to go in to your YouTube app settings (same way as described above) and switch off “Open supported links”. Then you can go into the other app’s settings (Newpipe, ReVanced, etc.) and make it the default.
Thanks man unfortunately I have a Xiaomi phone so probably I don’t have the default options for video streaming links since miui and android are similar I have found the app settings and the defaults but I don’t have anything such as default video player (for links ) thanks anyway 👍🏻
For miui it’s apps / manage apps / 3 dots top right corner / opening links. go to YouTube and find the links it opens, now add those links to your app of choice and uninstall / disable the official app.
Thanks i have found it finally 👍🏻
Couldn’t a client app manipulate the URL from the fetched post content before displaying, even on iOS?
Yes, that’s what I’m wanting app developers to do.
Piped is not a mirror, it’s just like a backdoor access to the original YouTube video.
So if you can access it on YT, you can access it on Piped
So if you can access it on YT, you can access it on Piped
Unless Piped dies
Piped can’t die. It’s just software. Maybe one instance can “die” and go offline for some reason but there are thousands more.
Same for Invidious.
Oh, I thought it’s a single website. My bad
The bot OP is talking about links to a single website. But the code running the site is used to run many sites like it. Similar to how Lemmy works.
That’s my understanding, anyway. I haven’t looked too much into it, so I could be wrong.
I can’t imagine there’d be any damage to posting two or more links: the YT one, a piped one, an invidious one, etc… All sides of the conversation that matter are covered.
Hot take: Piped API sucks and is a giant waste of resources (unless you’re running your own instance)
What is it exactly?
It’s a proxy to access YouTube privately. But all the servers are overloaded.
What does that have to do with the API though? You said that the API sucks I’m curious about that part. I understand thinking the public instances suck because they can never keep up and get overloaded but your original comment said that the API itself was bad somehow.
By API I think he meant the default API endpoint, not the API specification
I agree. I’ve had to switch instances so many times, it’s frustrating.
I found Piped to be way too slow. Use Freetube instead.
I’m vibing with invidious
I blocked it because Piped never seems to work.
Do content creators get views if I watch a video through any of the front-ends?
Content creators get almost nothing from ads. You’re better off donating $5 to their buymeacoffee or patreon or similar, etc.
That’s not true and I don’t know where this comes from. Ask anyone who actually is successful on YouTube and they will tell you YouTube ads pay quite well and their revenue share is very favorable.
Content creators barely get anything anyway
Imo piped fucking sucks and the page barely loads
That’s why I blocked it.
BILF
You can block users.
It’s a meme, not a support ticket 😅
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
Idk, might need the little guy if uBlock loses the war on YouTube.
NewPipe
Newpipe uses the piped API
actually, both use the newpipe extractor https://newpipe.net/FAQ/download/#download-youtube-api https://docs.piped.video/docs/architecture/
Oh, ok, ty
newpipe is only on android…
That’s great for mobile. Desktop I don’t like using piped.video because it’s ugly and slow so I just grab link from there then use yt-dlp + mpv.
Still no link to https://youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ =(
Maybe he overdosed on meme links
PIPED BOT TEST https://youtu.be/ERGfao1Acqc?si=ScB1WpHc_xfUmxdM
