odysee-frontend VS NewPipeExtractor

You can follow the status from here https://github.com/OdyseeTeam/odysee-frontend/issues/2792

technically it is open source since it's just a frontend for the LBRY video protocol

Opened issue https://github.com/OdyseeTeam/odysee-frontend/issues/2356 Sorry about that and thanks for reporting!

Someone has reported an issue here (which might be the same thing) there's a fix here created 6 days ago that still needs approval. Last update was 3 days ago. I'm not sure what timeline to expect since the other PRs I looked at got merged on the same day. Hopefully it will be resolved soon since I also can't publish updates to my playlists.

Don't think feature like that existing currently, but filed issue in github so maybe someday. https://github.com/OdyseeTeam/odysee-frontend/issues/2172

Filed it in here so devs will see it. https://github.com/OdyseeTeam/odysee-frontend/issues/1924

Sorry about that, seeing same here, opened an issue in https://github.com/OdyseeTeam/odysee-frontend/issues/1218 Thanks for finding.

Check the source code if you don't trust it. Pretty sure it's just for analytics(how many people are visiting the site) and error reporting.

There's this thing called NewPipeExtractor, which scrapes a lot of details from YouTube like videos, comments, and channels. But using it is a bit of a hassle since it requires implementing some abstract class, and its documentation is hard to understand.

For example there is https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor which allows downloading videos. there is https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts which activates Windows, I have tried and it works.

As for native support, it seems the issue for it exists but is pretty quiet so you may want to subscribe to it or lobby for some progress: https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor/issues/690

See https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/pull/8837 and https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor/pull/904 for pull requests with this feature. The extractor PR is also needed for LibreTube (as LibreTube depends on Piped which depends on our extractor).

For an example the youtube/streaming front-end android client NewPipe and its associated "backend" NewPipeExtractor has a lot of machinary to emulate what javascript does in your browser when you ask it to play a video/stream from various websites (most notably youtube). It does take a lot of effort, which is why it often goes into periods of quiet development as the previous maintainers burn-out and new ones take over. But it isnt impossible, but modern websites do not let go of thier content easily. Also note that even this is only read-only, there isnt a mechanism to allow you to post.

NewPipe Team's commits were crucially helpful in resolving the issue. TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor#960 (https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor/pull/960) THANKS SO MUCH, NEWPIPE TEAM!

You should indeed see them, that's a bug. I opened a new issue for this with some technical details: https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor/issues/1017.