Supports Invidious
As I was reading down the post, that's what I was thinking. Would be great to pipe it through Invideous. I may have my next project.
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I was actually contemplating if I should've omitted the mention of Invidious, seeing how it is a niche feature, but I guess it was the right call to keep it.
This looks great, the whole setup. I have been wanting a way for my kid to have a more curated access to YouTube.
So, cool and all, but I've been using freshrss with libredirect and freetube for this for ages, and it's great when freetube works, which with the cat and mouse with youtube is less often than I'd like (kudos to freetube, great project).
Honestly what I'd really like is something to download rss yt vid to a cache with yt-dlp (which breaks much less), grab the sponsorblock and pipe to something light and distraction free like mpv or vlc. Clear the cache after a day or whatever.
Anyone seen anything like this ?
You can catch the previous thread here, where there was a discussion about this using Pinchflat: https://lemmy.world/post/42859073
Pinchflat
Thanks, looks like it could work, bit more than I want, and it'll need integrating, but it is what it is. I'll see if it's worth the pain to transition.
Of course there's this...
MonkCanatella @sh.itjust.works English
I just have a somewhat annoying yt dlp script that runs on a schedule on my computer that downloads all my subscriptions. I tried everything else including pinchflat and it wasn’t really much of an improvement tbh.
TheLeadenSea
@sh.itjust.works
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Could you share that script please? I’d like to set up something similar
MonkCanatella
@sh.itjust.works
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Give me a bit, I’ll set up a gist with the details!
TheLeadenSea
@sh.itjust.works
English
Thanks!
followed by crickets. Such is life.
Cool, this looks great!
This looks great but unfortunately, it stops keyboard controls from working.
Youlag adds its own keyboard control, so it might be interfering with FreshRSS' default ones. I personally never utilized any of FreshRSS' keyboard shortcuts and might have overlooked that aspect.
If you don't mind opening an issue in the repo with the relevant context, I might be able to look into it in the future.