“Youlag” is a theme and extension for the feed aggregator FreshRSS. It delivers a video-focused browsing experience for your YouTube RSS feeds, all within FreshRSS, with a sleek theme and extra features.
Supports video feeds from YouTube, Invidious, and Piped.
Why?
The general idea is to subscribe to YouTube channels via RSS, allowing you to follow your favorite creators without an account. With Youlag installed, you can browse and watch videos in a familiar, YouTube-like interface.
More features are planned, including video queuing (with some limitations).
Git repository for more details:
https://github.com/civilblur/youlag
Features:
- ⭐ Optimized for Video Viewing
- Browse your YouTube, Invidious, Piped RSS subscriptions with ease.
- Clean, familiar video platform layout.
- Fullscreen viewing for videos and feed items.
- Quickly exit videos with
Esckey. - Shortcuts for external viewing: “Invidious”, “YouTube”, or “YouTube embed view” (for less distraction).
- Dark mode.
- 🖥️ Desktop & Mobile
- Reponsive design.
- Redesigned menus for better one-handed navigation.
- Improved readability and legibility across devices.
Since v3.0.0, and currently v3.0.2, Youlag has been refactored from a CSS theme to work more like an extension. This has improved stability and allowed me to add more features.
It’s still not yet a native FreshRSS extension, but my plan is to convert it to one.
Very cool! Have you explored running this on an Android TV at all, since that’s what I was thinking of trying this on. That way you can flip through channels without needing to deal with login on TVs. Also I don’t think YouTube supports making feeds for channel types (ex. Cooking etc.), whereas an RSS feed would make it possible
Since I don’t use a TV myself, I have not looked into this scenario unfortunately.
For android tv I cannot recommend Smarttube enough. https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube
Did smarttube have custom feeds? I only saw playlists (where you add videos to them manually) and the ability to pin individual channels to the sidebar.
What I have in mind is an option that lets you scroll through the recent content from a group of channels (ex. cooking, travel, self hosting, tech review, etc.)