Piped
Piped
An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.
Piped (code) is an alternative frontend to YouTube – a minimal frontend that gets you to the videos you want to watch, faster.
If you've been annoyed by the algorithm and constantly changing organization of the YouTube home page and search experience, consider trying Piped.
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: