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 more comprehensive installation guide is available in the wiki

Docker

Example docker command

$ docker create \
  --name=viewtube
  -p 8066:8066
  -v /path/to/data:/data \
  -e VIEWTUBE_URL=http://your-ip-or-domain.com
  --restart unless-stopped \
  mauriceo/viewtube:latest

Docker-compose

version: "3"

services:
  viewtube:
    container_name: viewtube
    restart: unless-stopped
    image: mauriceo/viewtube:latest
    volumes:
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
      - ./data:/data
    environment:
      - VIEWTUBE_URL=http://your-ip-or-domain.com
    ports:
      - 8066:8066

Development setup

Prerequisites

Nodejs v16.x
Yarn 1.22.x
MongoDB 4.4.x
Redis 6.x

Instructions

Clone this repo

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

yarn install
Start the dev server

yarn serve

If you want to start the api and frontend separately, you can use the following commands.
yarn serve:api
yarn serve:client
Visit localhost:8066 with a browser