ViewTube
ViewTube is an alternative YouTube frontend.
It can recommend, play and search for videos. It saves your watch progress and you can subscribe to channels for them to appear in your subscription feed.
It's built using Nuxt.js and Nest.
Check uptime.m-o.dev/status for updates and downtime status.
Try the dev version on dev.viewtube.io.
Features
- Watch videos without ads or tracking
- Built from the ground up to be mobile and desktop friendly
- Dark and light themes
- Touch friendly video player with gestures
- Supports loop, speed, autoplay and volume
- Create an account separately from Youtube
- Read comments
- Search for videos
- Watch playlists
- Subscribe to channels and see their latest uploads
- Receive push notifications for subscribed channels
- Integrated SponsorBlock support
Where does ViewTube get the data from?
ViewTube does not use the official Youtube API. It instead scrapes the data from the website using a combination of custom built tools and the following open source libraries.
The Invidious API is still used in a few places. You can check the progress on replacing the invidious api here.
Screenshots
Homepage
Video
Channel
Host it yourself
A comprehensive installation guide is available in the wiki
Development setup
Prerequisites
- Nodejs v18.x
- Pnpm 7.3.x
- MongoDB 5.0.x
If you don't want to install locally, use the supplied docker-compose.dev.yml
- MongoDB 4.4.x
- Redis 6.x
Instructions
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Clone this repo
git clone https://github.com/ViewTube/viewtube-vue -
Install dependencies
pnpm installor use docker-compose to install more easily and hassle-free
pnpm run serve:env -
Start the components seperately in multiple terminals
pnpm run serve:server
pnpm run serve:client -
Visit localhost:8066 with a browser
Pull requests welcome
Contributors
Thanks goes to these wonderful people
 cyacedev |
 Vendrix |
 Mennaruuk |
 Missu |
 beardeddude |