@blogdiva Yes, this is something you need to consider only if you host an instance yourself.

-SamantazFox

We have also added a new page to the documentation that lists the most common error messages returned by youtube, and some guidelines to help you out:

All the YouTube error messages explained with solutions - Invidious Documentation

The official Invidious documentation

(docs.invidious.io)

-SamantazFox

@blogdiva

"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:

Installation - Invidious Documentation

The official Invidious documentation

(docs.invidious.io)

-SamantazFox

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