Youlag is a FreshRSS extension that allows you to browse your YouTube and article feeds through a modernized design that incorporates quality-of-life features.

Optimized for both watching videos and reading articles.

Why?

Stay connected with creators without a Google account by using RSS. Don’t be tied to a specific platform and access your subscriptions from any device.

You can also use Youlag solely for its theme and quality of life features, ignoring any video feature.

Highlights v4.2.0

This update continues the trend of adding more customization and quality of life features.

  • Curate your own “recommended” videos based on your Watch later, or Subscriptions, or the current author
  • Video chapters/timestamp support, with prev/next buttons for skipping
  • DeArrow support
    • Replace clickbait thumbnails to screencaps
    • Use less sensational titles (when available)
    • Display video length (when available)
  • Compact view for browsing videos on mobile

…20+ more updates in the changelog

Other features

  • Block incoming YouTube shorts
  • Whitelist specific categories to use the video mode layout
  • Use Invidious instance as video playback source
  • Modernized interface for articles
  • Activate mini player to follow across pages; read articles while keeping a floating video at the bottom

Find more details: https://github.com/civilblur/youlag

  • nil@piefed.caEnglish
    1·
    6 hours ago

    I’m more interested in the CSS they got in the screenshot

  • trijste@lemmy.caEnglish
    6·
    17 hours ago

    Currently using pinchflat to scrape YouTube vids to a plex folder. Not sure this improves on that.

    • lent9004@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      10·
      17 hours ago

      If Pinchflat works well for you now, I would stick with it. The FreshRSS approach would be that it’s a lot less resource heavy and barely require any storage space. Because of this, you can serve multiple people with thousands of subscriptions.

    • turboSnail@piefed.europe.pubEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      If you need a handful of plugins to make a site tolerable, there’s probably something terribly wrong with that place. We can keep on patching it with an ever growing list of plugins, but is it really worth it.

      • James R Kirk@startrek.websiteEnglish
        1·
        17 hours ago

        Last time I looked into it something wasn’t working right about it, or maybe it was just more complicated than I wanted but maybe I’ll give it another go…

  • MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    14 hours ago

    I just have a somewhat annoying yt dlp script that runs on a schedule on my computer that downloads all my subscriptions. I tried everything else including pinchflat and it wasn’t really much of an improvement tbh.