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TeamNewPipe / NewPipe

NewPipe

A libre lightweight streaming front-end for Android.

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REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

What to know before exploring

What it is

A libre lightweight streaming front-end for Android.

GitHub

Where it is used

No documented product use was verified in the last source check.

What people are saying

I love NewPipe and use it heavily on my phone and Shield TV. https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by year81 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-11-29 23:42:59 UTC to 2026-08-15 05:47:47 UTC.

0510152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 14 mentions; 2 submissions, 12 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 17 mentions; 1 submissions, 16 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 11 mentions; 1 submissions, 10 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 11 mentions; 0 submissions, 11 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 4 submissions, 4 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 9 mentions; 3 submissions, 6 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC14212
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC17116
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC11110
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC11011
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC844
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC936
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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rmunn·Sep 12, 2025
I don't use the Youtube app on mobile, precisely because I've been unable to block ads in it. Instead, I do one of two things: either pre-download the video with yt-dlp then copy the .mp4 to my phone and watch it with the VLC app, or else if there's a video I need to watch right now and all I have is my phone, I use the NewPipe app (https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe, GPL 3, has to be sideloaded because of course Google won't allow it in the Google Play store) to watch the video without ads. Every so often Google changes the internals of how Youtube works, and then NewPipe fails until they get out a new release, but it's been working fine for the past several months.
In The effects of algorithms on the public discourse
kuylar·Feb 13, 2025
YouTube currently bans every IP address with a lot of guest traffic. They have also banned all datacenter IP ranges. Sometimes a "poToken" (a magic string that's used to 'validate' a client to prove that it's an official client) can be used to bypass this, but most of the time it's easier to just sign in with a Google account (which is also dangerous because YouTube has been banning accounts with unusual activity since last year[0]) Nowadays, most third party clients either use a browser/WebView to generate a poToken[1], or directly require a user to enter it for downloading[2] I feel like the parent commenters issue is related to this, and it looks like there's an ongoing PR to implement support for it[3] (Invidious already had supported poTokens, hovewer their implementation were setting a single token in the config, and AFAIK that meth
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od doesn't work anymore) [0] https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/10085 [1] https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/pull/11955 [2] https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/PO-Token-Guide#guide-p... [3] https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/4985
In YouTube's New Hue
uncharted9·Apr 2, 2024
I can help you in some way because I have experimented with blocking a lot of distracting sites for my own internet de-addiction journey. You can set up NextDNS or Adguard DNS to block YouTube at the router, device, or browser level. Really a great service, and free up to 300k network queries per month. There is a single toggle for YouTube in the Parental Controls section of both of these public DNS services to block all related domains of YouTube on the website as well as mobile apps. They also allow custom user rules that support wildcards, and you can specify all second-level domains related to YouTube to block them. I can list some of them off the top of my head: ``` youtube.com youtu.be googlevideo.com ytimg.com youtubekids.com youtube-nocookie.com ``` You can also edit the hosts file on your desktop (or on a rooted Android phone, if
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you've got one). Currently, this is what I use, and it does a decent job of blocking YouTube on my desktop. ``` 0.0.0.0 www.youtube.com 0.0.0.0 youtube.com 0.0.0.0 m.youtube.com 0.0.0.0 youtu.be 0.0.0.0 www.youtu.be 0.0.0.0 i.ytimg.com 0.0.0.0 accounts.youtube.com 0.0.0.0 gdata.youtube.com 0.0.0.0 uploads.gdata.youtube.com 0.0.0.0 www.youtube-nocookie.com 0.0.0.0 youtubekids.com 0.0.0.0 www.youtubekids.com 0.0.0.0 youtube-ui.l.google.com 0.0.0.0 youtube.googleapis.com ``` There is a nifty browser extension called [Unhook](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/unhook-hide-youtube...) that can remove lots of addictive elements from the YouTube.com website like recommendations, shorts, homepage feed, likes, comments, subscription feed etc., and allows you to only interact with bare minimum UI consisting just videos. It's highly customizable and you can turn on or off the options according to your needs. On Android you can use this FOSS app called [NewPipe](https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/) to consume YouTube videos without the official app and without needing your Google Account. There is no feed here and you can turn off video recommendations and comments in it if you want.
In Ask HN: How to Block YouTube at Home
yunruse·Jan 29, 2024
Extra anecdata: I've been fetching with Feedly and, having looked into it, it has all my subscriptions right up to a video released just around the same time as this NewPipe issue was raised [0]. I'd wager it's just caching; the YouTube RSS has been down for at least 4 hours (though as another commenter says, Invidious feeds[1] seems to work!) [0] https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/10801#issuecom... [1] https://invidious.io, e.g. https://yewtu.be
In Tell HN: YouTube RSS feeds are gone

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