Django-link-archive
Invidious
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Django-link-archive
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Google fights Invidious (a privacy YouTube Front end)
I am running my of YouTube front-end.
Link: https://github.com/rumca-js/Django-link-archive
Demo: https://renegat0x0.ddns.net/apps/catalog
Allows me to add channels, download individual videos, bookmark videos, etc. Uses iframe to display the video.
I have no problems with viewing videos:
- I use ff with adblock
- videos are embedded using no-referrer-when-downgrade policy
I have literally no ads.
There are some drawbacks:
- YouTube may change their policies, change embedding strategies
- To have control over videos, you still have to manually download them
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Show HN: Free Plain-Text Bookmarking
I wrote bookmark manager in Django.
https://github.com/rumca-js/Django-link-archive
You can self host it.
You can add RSS sources and auto import new links regularly.
It may not be stare of the art, but gets the job done.
Demo below, but may not be working when you look at it. It runs on raspberry pi.
https://renegat0x0.ddns.net/apps/catalog/entry/11503/
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A search engine in 80 lines of Python
I have myself dabbled a little bit in that subject. Some of my notes:
- some RSS feeds are protected by cloudflare. It is true however that it is not necessary for majority of blogs. If you would like to do more then selenium would be a way to solve "cloudflare" protected links
- sometimes even selenium headless is not enough and full blown browser in selenium is necessary to fool it's protection
- sometimes even that is not enough
- then I started to wonder, why some RSS feeds are so well protected by cloudflare, but who am I to judge?
- sometimes it is beneficial to cover user agent. I feel bad for setting my user agent to chrome, but again, why RSS feeds are so well protected?
- you cannot parse, read entire Internet, therefore you always need to think about compromises. For example I have narrowed area of my searches in one of my projects to domains only. Now I can find most of the common domains, and I sort them by their "importance"
- RSS links do change. There need to be automated means to disable some feeds automatically to prevent checking inactive domains
- I do not see any configurable timeout for reading a page, but I am not familiar with aiohttp. Some pages might waste your time
- I hate that some RSS feeds are not configured properly. Some sites do not provide a valid meta "link" with "application/rss+xml". Some RSS feeds have naive titles like "Home", or no title at all. Such a waste of opportunity
My RSS feed parser, link archiver, web crawler: https://github.com/rumca-js/Django-link-archive. Especially interesting could be file rsshistory/webtools.py. It is not advanced programming craft, but it got the job done.
Additionally, in other project I have collected around 2378 of personal sites. I collect domains in https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database/tree/ma... . These files are JSONs. All personal sites have tag "personal".
Most of the things are collected from:
https://nownownow.com/
https://searchmysite.net/
I wanted also to process domains from https://downloads.marginalia.nu/, but haven't got time to read structure of the files
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Is YouTube starting to protect channel RSS feeds?
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Disclaimer: I have a automated RSS reader enabled in my network: https://github.com/rumca-js/Django-link-archive
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Is Google Getting Worse? A Longitudinal Investigation of SEO Spam in Search [pdf]
On the other hand it is not 1995. Time has moved on. I wrote a Simple RSS feed, that also serves as search engine for bookmarks.
I am able to run it in attick on raspberry pi. We do not have to rely so heavily on google.
https://github.com/rumca-js/Django-link-archive
It is true that it does not serve me as google, or kagi replacement. It is a very nice addition though.
With a little bit off determination I do not have to be so dependent on google.
Here is also a dump of known domains. Some are personal.
https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database
...and my bookmarks
https://github.com/rumca-js/RSS-Link-Database
Some more years, and google can go to hell.
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Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
[4] https://github.com/rumca-js/Django-link-archive
These are exported then to github repositories:
[5] https://github.com/rumca-js/RSS-Link-Database - bookmarks
[6] https://github.com/rumca-js/RSS-Link-Database-2023 - 2023 year news headlines
[7] https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database - all known to me domains, and RSS feeds
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The Small Website Discoverability Crisis
My own repositories:
- bookmarked entries https://github.com/rumca-js/RSS-Link-Database
- mostly domains https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database
- all 'news' from 2023 https://github.com/rumca-js/RSS-Link-Database-2023
I am using my own Django program to capture and manage links https://github.com/rumca-js/Django-link-archive.
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Homebrew Website Club
A list od blogs mentioned by hacker news, some were adres manually by me:
https://github.com/rumca-js/Django-link-archive/blob/main/an...
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Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on
I have a project. I have posted it once herenon HN. I have not received any feedback then, it hasn't received much traction.
It is a link aggregation. Can be used as a RSS client, or YouTube front end for subscriptions.
It is intended for light, personal use, therefore it is not much scalable, but supports user management.
https://github.com/rumca-js/Django-link-archive
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Self hosted YouTube media server – Tube Archivist
Ha, I have also wrote something similar
https://github.com/rumca-js/Django-link-archive
I support not only youtube, but also any RSS source.
It functions as link aggregation software. I can also fetch meta for all videos in channel, and download videos, audios.
I am using standard Django auth module.
It still lacks polish, and it is under development. I am not a webdev, so I am still struggling with overall architecture
Invidious
- Google Broke Invidious Again
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Mobile Ad Blocker Will No Longer Stop YouTube's Ads
Youtube seems to be doing some A/B testing with the comment system which has made proxies like Invidious and yt-dlp/Newpipe unable to load comments. There is a patch for Invidious [1] which solves this problem but it is not in master yet. I tested it on my own instance and it does solve the problem.
[1] https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/4576
- YouTube: Google has found a way to break Invidious
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Google fights Invidious (a privacy YouTube Front end)
BTW, I don't understand the workaround: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/4552/files
Which was taken from here: https://github.com/LuanRT/YouTube.js/pull/624
Could anybody explain it to me?
- Google Ordered to Identify Who Watched Certain YouTube Videos
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YouTube is loading slower for users with ad blockers yet again
Use a Youtube proxy like Invidious [1], problem solved and you get to subscribe to channels without telling the Beast about your interests. Add Sponsorblock (which supports Invidious) to get rid of any in-stream advertising which remains and you'll be transported back to those hallowed times of yore when men were men, women were women and advertising was something you found in newspapers. Youtube will try to make this harder just like Xitter is trying to make it harder to use proxies like Nitter [2].
[1] https://github.com/iv-org/invidious
[2] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
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YouTube begins new wave of slowdowns for users with ad blockers enabled
Going to drop this here for others who haven't heard of it https://invidious.io/
Now, how do we fix this? YouTube's ad model sucks. Their algorithm sucks. Their front page sucks. They've captured a bunch of creators though so often YouTube is the only place you can find someone.
I want those creators to benefit from me viewing their videos. I want the fact that I view a video and like it to help other people find that video in their recommendations. I want an algorithm that shows me things that are interesting and relevant not one that promotes the spammiest and most ad heavy videos that barely have anything to do with my watch history.
Having an alternative front end is nice but I don't want to rob YouTube of the money they spend on hosting the videos.
So, how do we do this?
Peer to peer fails when there is little interest in something or when most people leech and it sucks for archiving old content.
Hosting it all in one place is super expensive and hard for a small group to manage without turning into YouTube.
Maybe we could find a way for the creators to host their own content and get paid when people view it while being part of a large federated network for easy discoverability?
Please list any projects you know of, I'm sure there are a lot of people here who would be willing to contribute or donate.
- Crystal 1.11.0 Is Released
- YouTube is trying to block Invidious
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Reviving decade-old Macs with antiX and MX Linux (2022)
Sometimes a half-solution will do, like Invidious or Piped.
[0] https://invidious.io/
[1] https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped
What are some alternatives?
hoyolab-rss-feeds - RSS feed (JSON & Atom) generator for Genshin Impact's official Hoyolab news feed
Piped - An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.
org-clive
NewPipe - A libre lightweight streaming front-end for Android.
Django-rss-feed - Link archive for a NAS drive [Moved to: https://github.com/rumca-js/Django-link-archive]
FreeTube - An Open Source YouTube app for privacy
RSS-Link-Database - Bookmarked archived links
nitter - Alternative Twitter front-end
catwiki_p3 - CatWiki (using Python 3)
SponsorBlock - Skip YouTube video sponsors (browser extension)
ytdl-pvr - A script/Docker image to continuously archive YouTube videos using ytdlp.
libreddit - Private front-end for Reddit