Piped

An alternative YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.

Features:

• No Ads
• No Tracking
• Infinite Scrolling
• Integration with SponsorBlock
• Integration with LBRY
• 4K support
• No connections to Google's servers
• Playing just audio
• Livestreams support with a quality selector
• PWA support
• Preferences saved locally
• Multi-region loadbalancing
• Performant by design, designed to handle 1000s of users concurrently

WIP

• Proper video support Blocked by NPE#461
• Login
• Comments
• Feeds
• 8K support
• Custom extractor for streams?
• Video Muxing

Development Setup

yarn install

Compiles and hot-reloads for development

yarn serve

You can now make changes and see them as soon you save the file!

YourKit

YourKit has given an open source license for their profiler, greatly simplifying the profiling of Piped's performance.

YourKit supports open source projects with its full-featured Java Profiler. YourKit, LLC is the creator of YourKit Java Profiler and YourKit .NET Profiler, innovative and intelligent tools for profiling Java and .NET applications.