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Piped

Learn about Piped, an alternate frontend to YouTube that improves performance and privacy

AwesomeFOSS Team

• 6 min read
Piped
An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.
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(Updated 2025/01/03)

Piped (code) is an alternative frontend to YouTube – a minimal frontend that gets you to the videos you want to watch, faster.

piped.video on 2022/11/29 (source: https://piped.video)

If you've been annoyed by the algorithm and constantly changing organization of the YouTube home page and search experience, consider trying Piped.

Public Instances

Here is a list of public instances you can use with Piped:

Instance Name Instance API URL Instance Location(s) CDN Registered Users
kavin.rocks (Official) https://pipedapi.kavin.rocks 🇺🇸, 🇮🇳, 🇳🇱, 🇨🇦, 🇬🇧, 🇫🇷 Yes
tokhmi.xyz https://pipedapi.tokhmi.xyz 🇺🇸 Yes
moomoo.me https://pipedapi.moomoo.me 🇬🇧 Yes
syncpundit.io https://pipedapi.syncpundit.io 🇺🇸, 🇮🇳, 🇬🇧, 🇯🇵 Yes
mha.fi https://api-piped.mha.fi 🇫🇮 Yes
garudalinux.org https://piped-api.garudalinux.org 🇫🇮 Yes
rivo.lol https://pipedapi.rivo.lol 🇨🇱 Yes
leptons.xyz https://pipedapi.leptons.xyz 🇦🇹 Yes
lunar.icu https://piped-api.lunar.icu 🇩🇪 Yes
dc09.ru https://ytapi.dc09.ru 🇷🇺 Yes
colinslegacy.com https://pipedapi.colinslegacy.com 🇺🇸 Yes
vyper.me https://yapi.vyper.me 🇨🇱 Yes
looleh.xyz https://api.looleh.xyz 🇳🇱 Yes
cfe.re https://piped-api.cfe.re 🇵🇱 Yes
r4fo.com https://pipedapi.r4fo.com 🇩🇪 Yes
nosebs.ru https://pipedapi.nosebs.ru 🇫🇮 Yes
kavin.rocks libre (Official) https://pipedapi-libre.kavin.rocks 🇳🇱 No
mint.lgbt https://pa.mint.lgbt 🇨🇦 No
il.ax https://pa.il.ax 🇺🇸 No
privacy.com.de https://piped-api.privacy.com.de 🇩🇪 No
projectsegfau.lt https://api.piped.projectsegfau.lt 🇫🇷 No
projectsegfau.lt in https://pipedapi.in.projectsegfau.lt 🇮🇳 No
projectsegfau.lt us https://pipedapi.us.projectsegfau.lt 🇺🇸 No
whatever.social https://watchapi.whatever.social 🇺🇸 No
privacydev.net https://api.piped.privacydev.net 🇫🇷 No
palveluntarjoaja.eu https://pipedapi.palveluntarjoaja.eu 🇫🇷 No
smnz.de https://pipedapi.smnz.de 🇩🇪 No
adminforge.de https://pipedapi.adminforge.de 🇩🇪 No
qdi.fi https://pipedapi.qdi.fi 🇺🇸 No
hostux.net https://piped-api.hostux.net 🇫🇷, 🇱🇺 No
vern.cc https://pdapi.vern.cc 🇺🇸 No
pfcd.me https://pipedapi.pfcd.me 🇩🇪 No
frontendfriendly.xyz https://pipedapi.frontendfriendly.xyz 🇺🇸 No
piped.yt https://api.piped.yt 🇩🇪 No
astartes.nl https://pipedapi.astartes.nl 🇳🇱 No
osphost.fi https://pipedapi.osphost.fi 🇫🇮 No
simpleprivacy.fr https://pipedapi.simpleprivacy.fr 🇫🇷 No
drgns.space https://pipedapi.drgns.space 🇺🇸 No
ggtyler.dev https://piapi.ggtyler.dev 🇺🇸 No
pluto.lat https://api.watch.pluto.lat 🇫🇮 No
seitan-ayoub.lol https://piped-backend.seitan-ayoub.lol 🇩🇪 No
owo.si https://pipedapi.owo.si 🇩🇪 No
minionflo.net https://api.piped.minionflo.net 🇩🇪 No
nezumi.party https://pipedapi.nezumi.party 🇮🇹 No
ducks.party https://pipedapi.ducks.party 🇳🇱 No
ngn.tf https://pipedapi.ngn.tf 🇹🇷 No
coldforge.xyz https://pipedapi.coldforge.xyz 🇺🇸 No
codespace.cz https://piped-api.codespace.cz 🇨🇿 No
reallyaweso.me https://pipedapi.reallyaweso.me 🇩🇪 No
phoenixthrush.com https://pipedapi.phoenixthrush.com 🇩🇪 No
private.coffee https://api.piped.private.coffee 🇦🇹 No
ehwurscht.at https://schaunapi.ehwurscht.at 🇦🇹 No
darkness.services https://pipedapi.darkness.services 🇺🇸 No
andreafortuna.org https://pipedapi.andreafortuna.org 🇩🇪 No
wireway.ch https://piped.wireway.ch 🇨🇭 No
ע.net https://piped-nextgen.xn--17b.net 🇮🇱 No
ic0.app https://nuv3d-7iaaa-aaaan-qahma-cai.ic0.app/ 🇺🇸 No
syncpundit.io https://piped.syncpundit.io 🇺🇸 No
ezero.space https://piped.ezero.space 🇺🇸 No

(this list is sourced from the Piped Wiki, along with other instnces

YouTube with an API

Piped also provides an API that makes it easy to automate your YouTube experience, without signing up for Google services and making API keys.

Here are just some of the endpoints:

  • /streams/:videoId
  • /comments/:videoId (& /nextpage/comments/:videoId)
  • /trending
  • /channel/:channelId
  • /c/:name
  • /user/:name
  • /sponsors/:videoId

Running/Self-Hosting Piped

Piped has an incredible amount of features but is easy to run and easy to self host. They even provide dedicated documentation for self hosters. Unfortunately the Docker repos aren't properly versioned (only latest is available), but the images used in the Github repo are available: