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0 pointsGrimburger3y ago0 comments

> the APIs probably changes regularly

I'd go as far to say routinely. A massive pain point for third party youtube apps like newpipe which break every few months due to it.

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arcbyte3y ago

As a regular user of NewPipe, I disagree that it's a "massive" pain point. NewPipe works very well almost all the time.

Coincidentally today is maybe the third time I've went to watch something and it's been broken. It's annoying yes, but soooo much less annoying that constant ads. It's a minor pain point that is easily solved by temporarily switching back to regular youtube.. by the time I've seen a few ads I'm more annoyed at the regular experience and NewPipe probably has a fix out by then anyway.

londons_explore3y ago

Youtube API's change frequently, but rarely in backwards incompatible ways.

After all, youtube runs on millions of client devices which can't or won't update the client application. Eg. Android devices with google play broken or logged out. Forcing those users to update in many cases will lose a user. A 5+ year old phone's copy of youtube still runs and plays videos.

Now the API's that the website uses... those can be updated with nearly zero notice...

kyleee3y ago

as it happens, newpipe is currently broken

1vuio0pswjnm73y ago

How so, exactly.

I have been playing around with NewPipe SponsorBlock. It has its flaws but generally seems to work. I have not seen it mentioned but NewPipe SB also supports Soundcloud, Bandcamp and PeerTube instances. I think it includes FramaSoft's and CCC's PeerTube instances as presets. It is interesting how smoothly PeerTube seems to work.

I would not rely on NewPipe for downloading or playing YouTube videos, even when it is "fixed", but the app does much more than just those two things.

autoexec3y ago

0.20.2 is working for me (at least it's working enough that videos can be played and downloaded). Even in newpipe I prefer to download videos rather than stream them. VLC is a far better player, fewer ads, fewer distractions, zero comments, and what videos I re-watch and how often isn't being logged by google.

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