Invidious

A Youtube frontend for private video streaming. Uses yt-dlp as a backend for downloading videos.

Installation (Manual)

https://docs.invidious.io/companion-installation/

1. Install Crystal 1.12 (https://software.opensuse.org//download.html?project=devel%3Alanguages%3Acrystal&package=crystal1.10)
2. sudo apt install make libssl-dev libxml2-dev libyaml-dev libgmp-dev libreadline-dev postgresql librsvg2-bin libsqlite3-dev zlib1g-dev libpcre3-dev libevent-dev fonts-open-sans npm
3. npm install -g deno

Creating Invidious User

1. useradd -m invidious
2. su - invidious
3. git clone https://github.com/iv-org/invidious

Setting up PostgreSQL

1. systemctl enable --now postgresql
2. sudo -i -u postgres
3. `psql -c “CREATE USER kemal WITH PASSWORD ‘yourpasswordhere’;”
4. createdb -O kemal invidious
5. exit

Creating Keys

1. Generate two secret keys (HMAC_KEY and invidious_companion_key)
   1. pwgen 16 1
   2. pwgen 16 1

Setting up invidious

1. su - invidious
2. cd invidious
3. make
4. Now, you should have a binary called invidious in the same folder
5. vim config/config.yml

db:
	user: kemal
	password : yourpassword
	...
	
invidious_companion:
  - private_url: "http://companion:8282"
    public_url: "http://invidious.mydomain.com"
invidious_companion_key: "CHANGE_ME!!"
...
hmac_key: "CHANGE_ME!!"
...
https_only: true
domain: "yoshixi.net"
external_port: 443

6. ./invidious --migrate
7. exit

Setup systemD service

1. cp /home/invidious/invidious/invidious.service /etc/systemd/system/invidious.service
2. systemctl enable --now invidious.service

Setup Invidious Companion

1. git clone https://github.com/iv-org/invidious-companion.git
2. cd invidious-companion
3. deno task compile
4. cp config/config.example.tml config/config.toml
5. Edit the config file to be:

[server]
port = 8282
host = "0.0.0.0"
secret_key = "SAMEASINVIDIOUSCOMPANIONKEY"

1. ./invidious_companion

Setup NGINX

Copy the nginx.conf found on this site: https://docs.invidious.io/companion-nginx/

After the server is running, you can access the frontend at localhost:3000