selfhosted youtube.

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2023-09-25

youtube-local

youtube-local is really cool service that allows you to self host your own instance of youtube.

i have tried to install another popular self-hostable instance of youtube, a fork of this very project, yt-local but unfortunately, was unable to make the video player work for some reason.

anyways regardless of that, it was very easy to install youtube-local on my system,

git clone https://github.com/user234683/youtube-local yt-local
cd yt-local

python3 -m venv env
source env/bin/activate
pip3 install -r requirements.txt

python3 server.py

making a .service file for systemd,

[Unit]
Description=My Youtube

[Service]
ExecStart=/home/aadi/.local/src/yt-local/env/bin/python /home/aadi/.local/src/yt-local/server.py
ExecReload=/home/aadi/.local/src/yt-local/env/bin/python /home/aadi/.local/src/yt-local/server.py

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

and also setting up a redirect plugin to make everything youtube reroute to my instance of yt, using a firefox plugin called redirector.

^(https?://(?:[a-zA-Z0-9_-]*\.)?(?:youtube\.com|youtu\.be|youtube-nocookie\.com)/.*)

im currently having fun using this as,

• its very smooth
• it allowed me to import my subscriptions from newpipe
• it allows for customisability

all that aside, im doing well, ive been studying hard :) cyall <3 bai