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  • ZeroHora@lemmy.mltoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Piped? Invidious? Anything else? Which frontend should I link for YouTube content that respects privacy, like XCancel for Twitter links?English
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    7 months ago

    Freetube

    Edit: In my experience Piped or Invidious gets rate limited often and stop loading videos for a while and I need to change instances. Freetube doesn’t have that problem, the only times videos stop working is when youtube changes something, when that happens I use Freetube to grab the video link and run a script to download with yt-dl and watch on the mpv player.

    script that I grabbed on the internet 
    #!/usr/bin/env bash

# Directory for downloaded videos:
DL_DIR="$HOME/Downloads/yt"
mkdir -p $DL_DIR

# Video player:
#PLAYER="xdg-open"
PLAYER="/usr/bin/mpv"
#PLAYER="/usr/bin/smplayer"

# Downloader and options:
YTDL="/bin/yt-dlp"
YTDL_OPTS=(--no-playlist -S "res:1080" -N 5 --add-chapters)
YTDL_DIR_OPTS=(-P "$DL_DIR")

set -e

CMD() {
  printf "[CMD]: "
  printf "\"%s\" " "$@"
  printf "\n"
  "$@"
}

# Get URL from clipboard if run without argument:
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
  URL="$(xclip -o -sel c)"
#  CMD qdbus org.kde.klipper /klipper org.kde.klipper.klipper.clearClipboardHistory
else
  URL="$1"
fi

# Get video filename
printf "[URL]: %s\n" "$URL"
FILENAME=$("$YTDL" --get-filename "${YTDL_DIR_OPTS[@]}" "$URL")
printf "[FILE]: %s\n" "$FILENAME"

# Download video
CMD "$YTDL" "${YTDL_OPTS[@]}" "${YTDL_DIR_OPTS[@]}" "$URL"

# Play video
CMD "$PLAYER" "$FILENAME" >/dev/null 2>&1

    I also configured a cronjob to clean the directory everyday.