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Remember Invidious? You can watch and download YouTube videos with it without ads and tracking (technically, without JavaScript). There is playlist feature in it and in this tutorial we will discuss how to create one, add videos to it, and play the videos automatically one by one. 

 

About This Tutorial

This tutorial assumes you are using Invidious (visit https://ytprivate.com) and know that everything is applicable to another Invidiouses. In the future, there might be changes and you can use another Invidious (visit redirect.invidious.io for choices).


Register and Login

To make playlists, you should first have an account on Invidious. Signing up to Invidious, unlike YouTube, is anonymous and no email nor phone number required.

1. Click LOGIN.

2. Type a username, type a password, click REGISTER.

3. You are registered. Once registered, if you have not, you have to login first:

4. Click LOGIN.

5. Type your username, your password, login.

6. You are logged in. 

For example I have an account named iloveinvidious and it looks like below. 


Create Playlist

For example, we want to make a playlist of wild life videos like the popular Primitive Technology and similar people are doing. To create playlist:

1. Go to your Invidious. 

2. Click PLAYLISTS.

3. Click CREATE PLAYLIST, give it a name, make it Private, create, and click plus button.

4. In the search page displayed, search videos you want. In this example, wild life videos, by keywords around "primitive technology" ". 

5. Click plus button on each video of the videos displayed. 

6. Playlist created.


NOTE: you can make it Public playlist by selecting Public instead of Private.
 

Play the Playlist

1. Go to your Invidious. 

2. Click PLAYLIST. 

3. Your playlist(s) displayed.

4. Click one playlist. In this example, WILD LIFE.

5. Videos inside this playlist displayed. Click the first video. 

6. Video plays.

7. Next video will be automatically play. 

8. This playlist will end automatically at the last video.



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FreeTube - a desktop app to enjoy youtube comfortably

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Mentioned in my last tutorial, PeerTube is able to mirror YouTube videos. This means we simply copy the video addresses instead of reupload the files and video is instantly published on PeerTube. It is a cool feature. It is thanks to the tool used behind the scene named youtube-dl. Now it is the time to discuss how to do that more precisely. In this tutorial I explain mirroring several videos from that Google-owned site. I use examples from our Free Libre Open Source Software community. Enjoy!

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VLC is one of the best cross-platform open-source application in the world. It can play almost multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols. Many people use VLC for playing videos and even musics. But there is one more feature of VLC which rarely used that's downloading YouTube videos! with a little help of web browser. Although, there are many applications to download YouTube videos on Ubuntu, I'd like to show you how to download YouTube videos by using VLC, in case you don't want to install any additional applications.

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Imagine you have a playlist on YouTube that contains hundreds of videos in it and you want to download them, what will you do? Do you really want to download them one by one? I think that's not a good idea. So, in this my first post, I'd like to show you how download all videos of YouTube playlist by simply type a few commands.


Applications used:
In order to getting this trick done, we have to install two applications called umph and youtube-dl. Umph is such an application that can parse YouTube feeds, it can parse playlists, favourite lists, and user upload lists. Youtube-dl is well-known command line tool for downloading YouTube videos by giving their video links.