@schmiddionmobile@fosstodon.org
Post #1173789
2025-10-15 09:14 UTC
I've released version 3.1.0 of Pipeline. Starting with this release, Pipeline now fetches data about YouTube videos directly from YouTube instead of proxying over Piped. This is due to pretty much no public Piped instances working anymore. If you have a private Piped instance you want to use, you can still switch back to using Piped in the settings. This change also speeds up fetching the feed of videos a lot, for my personal feed by a factor of about 20.
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@gamey@chaos.social 2025-10-16 11:18
@schmiddionmobile@fosstodon.org Dose it use sufisticated feed logic like Newpipe (ongoing sessions to fetch metadata, scheduling that adapt to the upload frequency of a channel and so on) to prevent IP block from fetching many channels? I tried to look into creating a desktop youtube client before and feed logic was one of the main issues, especially because at least from what I could find youtube-dl lacks proper bulk fetching that keeps a single session up rather than opening many