Hello everybody!
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Hello everybody!
We've released a new stable version of Invidious, which fixes the very annoying "Youtube API returned error 400" error on the channel pages.
It however does not change the video playback capabilities of Invidious: currently a PO token/visitor data pair and inv_sig_helper are required to watch videos. We're still working on a solution that make them optional.
A lot of other bugs were also fixed. Read the full changelog here:
Release Release v2.20241110.0 · iv-org/invidious
Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube. Contribute to iv-org/invidious development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub (github.com)
-SamantazFox
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your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦replied to Invidious last edited by
"currently a PO token/visitor data pair and inv_sig_helper are required to watch videos"
i do not understand what you mean by this. explain it to me like am 5.
i use Freetube which has y'all as a fallback and when their app was in some transitional period, nothing worked and i would get these messages but have no idea what i needed to do to get Invidious to work again
they've upgraded things and it now works without your backend, but i still want to know what the error means
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Invidiousreplied to your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 last edited by
"inv_sig_helper" is a tool we created to run some untrustworthy (but required) JavaScript code from Google. That the same code that runs in your browser when you go to Youtube.
The PO token/visitor data are two bits of information provided by Youtube when you go to their website, that allows them to follow you through (= some sort of session identifier).
The documentation explains how to make it all work:
-SamantazFox
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your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦replied to Invidious last edited by
ah. so this has to happen at the server level, not the user level, correct?
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Invidiousreplied to your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 last edited by
@blogdiva Yes, this is something you need to consider only if you host an instance yourself.
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