pixdoet / yt-2005-watch

2005 YouTube frontend that uses youtubei

ARCHIVING ON 1 DEC 2023 - SEE BELOW

yt-2005-watch

A YouTube frontend written with the YouTubeI api, otherwise more commonly known as the InnerTube API.

Requirements

• Webserver (preferably, Apache)
• PHP ≥ 7.2.5 (Minimum Twig requirement)
• cURL extension for PHP

Setup

1. Go to your webserver's documentroot, then do git clone https://github.com/pixdoet/yt-2005-watch.git on the directory.
2. You're done! If you wanna configure stuff, edit includes/config.inc.php, where the values are clearly marked in the comments.

Directory structure

• /includes/: Contains include files for the PHP code
  • /includes/html/: Contains HTML files used for includes (no results, header etc)
• /templates/: HTML templates for Twig
• /yts/: Contains static files (YouTube Static)

License

Apache 2.0

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Publicly maintained instances

Stable: http://cleantalk.great-site.net (shutting down 31 Dec 2023)

The future of yt-2005-watch

Really? It's been 2 years since this project has started. Unfortunately, it's also time for the project to come to a rest, as it existed in an abandoned state since 2023. I just don't have the time and energy to commit to a project like this anymore, sorry :(

Maybe time will come when I inevitably start to create projects for the Old YouTube Community again? Dunno. Until then, I wish the best for y'all, and goodbye.

yt-2005-watch's Issues

Dev Build is down

hi please ignore my username i signed into my very old account to say that the dev build is down, also this is real cool and it would be cooler if there were some of these for other years but most just that the dev build is down and it would be awesome if it came back up

Consider switching to Invidious and documenting code

500

"192.168.0.244 is currently unable to handle this request."
"HTTP ERROR 500"

Video Playing doesn't seem to work

If i select a video, the player doesn't work

Looking for viable hosting for dev server

The server should be:

1. Relatively fast
2. Support Git and SSH (mostly git, I don't like updating files over FTP)
3. Support PHP 8++

If anyone knows about any good hosting that meet these criteria, do please comment on this thread or reach me by email. Thanks!

Fix for copyrighted videos

So I've actually found a fix for the copyrighted videos, but the person that found it has requested the method to be private. So do we

1. Keep doing the current method and maintain 100% open source or
2. Use the method, but keep the method secret, and make the project not fully open source.

Do please tell me what you think!

Video playback doesn't seem to be working...?

As in the title, the player does not seem to be able to load video resources correctly.
Test on Firefox 115.0.2 / K-Meleon 76.4.7.

https://rehike.hiew.me/ got hacked

Pixdoet, it looks like your Dev website got hacked. It redirects to a McAfee scam.

See this picture:

Please fix your Dev website as soon as possible. Your's truly, Jose Ernesto.

error 523 while accessing rehike.hiew.me since yesterday

I tried recently to access the rehike.hiew.me client but the site don't load, it just display a cloudflare message.

Add check for profile description avalability

profile.php errors out when going to someone's profile without a description.

rehike.hiew.me down atm

Doing some experiments on the server so everything is closed and private. In the meantime, you can use the stable server, which will be updated to the latest commit from the dev branch

Index page requesting new response object many times, causing lag and repeated videos

In index.php:

$response_object = requestBrowse("FEwhat_to_watch"); // requested first time

$response = json_decode($response_object);
function homepageFeed($number)
{
    $response_object = requestBrowse("FEwhat_to_watch"); // requested everytime function runs
    ...
}
...
for ($i = 0; $i < 8; $i++) { 
    $obj = homepageFeed($i); // requestBrowse runs for 8 times
    ...
}

This causes huge amounts of lag and duplicate results since it requests a different response from youtubei every single time the loop runs.

rehike.Hiew.me down (again)

Server maintenance for 3 days so yeah

Development on hiatus as I have exams coming in May

I might return briefly to developing this around late May to early June.

Your Composer dependencies require a PHP version ">= 7.2.5" on watch.php

Title says it all, any fix?

Add 2005 player style

Hello, very cool project but lack in player style... can add style for 2005 player? THanks.