README

Piped










An open-source alternative frontend for YouTube which is efficient by design.

A list of public instances can be found at the documentation here.

 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 without the fear of prying eyes watching everything you are doing.

 Features:

User Features

-   [x] No Ads
-   [x] No Tracking
-   [x] Lightweight on server and client
-   [x] Infinite Scrolling
-   [x] Light/Dark themes
-   [x] Login
-   [x] Feeds
-   [x] Playlists
-   [x] Integration with SponsorBlock
-   [x] Integration with LBRY for streaming
-   [x] Integration with Return YouTube Dislike via RYD-Proxy
-   [x] 4K support
-   [x] No connections to Google's servers
-   [x] Playing just audio
-   [x] PWA support
-   [x] Locally saved Preferences
-   [x] Available in many languages, thanks to our translators
-   [x] Embedded video support
-   [x] No age restriction
-   [x] Bypasses Geo restrictions if possible through a federated network

Technical Features

-   [x] Multi-region load-balancing
-   [x] Performant by design, designed to handle 1000s of users concurrently
-   [x] Does not use official YouTube APIs
-   [x] Uses NewPipeExtractor to extract information
-   [x] Public JSON API
-   [x] Federated protocol on Matrix to let instances collaborate with each other

 Having trouble?
If you have any general questions regarding how Piped works or trouble setting up your own instance, please consult the following public chat rooms and documentation for help. Please use these platforms exclusively for such cases and do NOT open an issue.

 Public Chat Rooms/Communities

-   You can join us via Matrix at piped.
-   You can join us on Lemmy on the [email protected] community.

 Self-Hosting

See https://docs.piped.video/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://docs.piped.video (accessible via IPNS as well).

The API specification is located at https://github.com/TeamPiped/OpenAPI.

 Extensions

To redirect all YouTube links to Piped, you are highly recommended to use either Piped-Redirects, Libredirect or Predirect.

 Contributing

 Translations

You can help by translating the project to a language you speak at https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/piped/frontend/

 Mirrors

-   Cloudflare Pages - cf.piped.video
-   Vercel - vc.piped.video
-   Render - re.piped.video
-   Fleek - fl.piped.video
-   DigitalOcean - do.piped.video
-   Netlify - nf.piped.video
-   Azure - az.piped.video

 Forking, and contributing

-   Fork the repository on GitHub: https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped/fork
-   Create your feature branch: git checkout -b my-awe