alt Hacker NewsIME newpipe breaks every few weeks or so, presumably because of some youtube change / obfuscation. Or at least that was the case a few years ago.
I've had more success hosting an invidious instance and using the materialious client for mobile. And a bonus is that it comes with sponsorblock built in.
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I found pipepipe to be more stable, break less and have more features.
A few years is different case. Invidious is also getting blocked easily. Are you running it now? If yes, then report.
"IME newpipe breaks every few weeks or so, presumably because of some youtube change / obfuscation."
Same experience. I have a commandline program I wrote to retrieve YouTube download URLs many years ago. On average it has always been more reliable than Newpipe. It continues to work when Newpipe fails and I can fix it quickly when there is a YouTube change
However I noticed recently Newpipe, the original, not SponsorBlock, old version, no updates, had been going many weeks without failure. When it eventually failed I was able to get it working again immediately by simply changing the www.youtube.com IPv4 address
Will try this again when it fails the next time
Absolutely but I stop YouTube consumption if it's not through NewPipe, so a little productivity boost here and there is not too bad ;)
I think that is overstating it, there has been one recent breakage and fix in the last few months or more roughly. It would be interesting to see it plotted out on a timeline though.
Not every week, more like a couple of times a year when YouTube makes some breaking changes.
Personally I take these periods as healthy time off from YouTube, so I'm no longer even annoyed by them.