I used a public instance of Piped for a while and thought about selfhosting it, but the installation process was incredibly hard, to the point of being obnoxious, and in the end, it didn’t even work. I liked the features I saw on the public instances and would like to revisit it some time. Until there I’m using Viewtube. Installation was a breeze and it looks pretty nice.

Do you have some other YT frontend that we could try, post it here and tell us how easy/difficult it is to run and your opinion about it.

  • @gobbling871@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0•1 year ago

    I’ve hosted invidious relatively easy for a while now. Simple UI and just works. If anyone needs my compose and config setup, reply and I’ll post it.

    • fatboy93English
      1•1 year ago

      It would be great if you can post the compose and comfigs!

      Are there any minimum requirements?

      • @gobbling871@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        No minimum requirements. And here you go:

        #version: "3.8"
services:
  invidious:
    image: quay.io/invidious/invidious:latest
    restart: unless-stopped
    security_opt:
      - no-new-privileges
    container_name: invidious
    stop_grace_period: 3s
    ports:
      - 127.0.0.1:3000:3000
    environment:
      INVIDIOUS_CONFIG: |
        db:
          dbname: invidious
          user: invidious
          password: superstrongpassword491
          host: postgres
          port: 5432
        check_tables: true
        popular_enabled: true
        login_enabled: false
        statistics_enabled: true
        hsts: true
        hmac_key: *PICK-A-LONG-RANDOM-STRING*
        https_only: true
        external_port: 443
        use_quic: true
        database_url: postgres://invidious:superstrongpassword491@postgres/invidious?auth_methods=md5,scram-sha-256
        force_resolve: ipv4
        domain: *your.domain.com*
    healthcheck:
      test: wget -nv --tries=1 --spider http://127.0.0.1:3000/api/v1/comments/jNQXAC9IVRw || exit 1
      interval: 30s
      timeout: 5s
      retries: 2
    depends_on:
      - postgres

  postgres:
    image: postgres:15-alpine
    container_name: postgres
    security_opt:
      - no-new-privileges
    restart: always
    # purposefully excluded volumes section
    # the database will reset on recreate
    environment:
      POSTGRES_DB: invidious
      POSTGRES_USER: invidious
      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: superstrongpassword491
    healthcheck:
      test: pg_isready -U invidious -d invidious
      interval: 10s
      timeout: 5s
      retries: 5