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Applications: add Koutube #591

Closed iGerman00 closed 1 month ago

iGerman00 commented 1 month ago

A friend suggested that I PR it here. I've had this project running for a while; it's a way to avoid loading the YouTube embed along with all the tracking and ads that come with it—primarily on Discord but also potentially on other apps. It's about as privacy-respecting as it can be while running on Cloudflare's servers, but I think it still fits the applications doc.

Let me know if you'd rather not have the links populated like that for consistency.

unixfox commented 1 month ago

Is this project using invidious in any way?

iGerman00 commented 1 month ago

Yes, that is correct. All the data is received from an Invidious instance and the video direct URLs are also obtained through its API. The project is basically an API wrapper. I should have clarified, apologies.

TheFrenchGhosty commented 1 month ago

From what I'm seeing it's not really an "extension" so why add it under extension?

iGerman00 commented 1 month ago

It's not really an application (like a client), userscript or browser extension either. I guess it could be categorized as a utility but the only one currently present is an updater for Invidious itself, so a bit of a different scope.

In my opinion, it best fits in the "Extensions that integrate Invidious into other Apps" category, in a sense that it integrates content from Invidious into Discord, without ever leaving Discord. So that's why I proposed putting it there.