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

Clone this repo

git clone https://github.com/ViewTube/viewtube-vue
Install dependencies

pnpm install

or 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