Kayos
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Round-2 audit caught four real regressions on round-1 fixes plus a
handful of MEDs. This sprint fixes them.
H1 — FeedRefreshWorker exception class
Round 1 wrapped subscriptionFeed in try/catch IOException, but
UniFFI generates StrawcoreException (kotlin.Exception, not
IOException). The retry path was dead code. Catch
StrawcoreException.Network instead — the variant our error.rs
maps NetworkError::Transport into.
H2 — enrichJob terminal emit cancellation race
withContext(Dispatchers.Default) { mergeFromCache(...) } has no
suspension points so a cancel arriving mid-merge isn't observed
until the next suspending call. Without a guard, the non-suspending
_ui.update lands AFTER clearInMemoryCache() and resurrects the
cleared items. Add coroutineContext.ensureActive() after each
withContext hop, before the emit. Applied on both the refresh
terminal emit and the enrich terminal emit.
H6 — enrichVisibleItems shows stale subscriptions
The channelsSnapshot captured at refresh-end is ~2s stale by the
time the enrich terminal emit runs. If the user unsubscribed from
X in that window, X's items still appear on the feed for one
frame. Re-read Subscriptions at the terminal step and intersect
with the snapshot.
R-H3 — extract_channel_id substring match
Round 1 used trimmed_lower.find(prefix) which matches ANY position.
evil.com/?redir=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxxx silently
rewrote to the embedded channel ID. strip_prefix() anchors at byte
0. ASCII-only prefix means byte indices align in trimmed_lower vs
trimmed.
R-H2 — String::from_utf8 silent-drop
YouTube ships mojibake titles in the wild. Strict from_utf8
returned None on any bad byte, dropping the entire channel from the
feed with only a quiet None. Switch to from_utf8_lossy — quick-xml
tolerates U+FFFD replacement chars and the per-entry skip-on-empty
handles broken entries.
R-H1 — read_capped_body per-chunk size sanity
HTTP allows arbitrarily large single chunks. Reject any chunk
exceeding the whole body cap before adding it to the buffer, so a
hostile server can't get us to allocate a hyper Bytes larger than
the cap.
M3 — Avatar URL validation
ch.avatar is extractor-emitted; a poisoned channel page could ship
data:image/svg+xml,<svg>...<script> or javascript: URLs. Validate
http(s):// scheme before persisting to Subscriptions and before
surfacing via VideoDetail.uploaderAvatar.
M4 — ChannelViewModel dual loadedUrl
Same shape VideoDetail's round-1 fix declared unsafe. Move
loadedUrl into ChannelUiState, drop the field, use _ui.value
snapshot at top of load() and _ui.value.loadedUrl for the fence.
Rejected-URL path also stamps loadedUrl so the gate is coherent.
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We are rewriting large chunks of the codebase, to bring about a modern and stable NewPipe! You can download nightly builds here.
Please work on the refactor branch if you want to contribute new features. The current codebase is in maintenance mode and will only receive bugfixes.
NewPipe
A libre lightweight streaming front-end for Android.
Screenshots • Supported Services • Description • Features • Installation and updates • Contribution • Donate • License
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Warning
THIS APP IS IN BETA, SO YOU MAY ENCOUNTER BUGS. IF YOU DO, OPEN AN ISSUE IN OUR GITHUB REPOSITORY BY FILLING OUT THE ISSUE TEMPLATE.
PUTTING NEWPIPE, OR ANY FORK OF IT, INTO THE GOOGLE PLAY STORE VIOLATES THEIR TERMS AND CONDITIONS.
Screenshots
Supported Services
NewPipe currently supports these services:
- YouTube (website) and YouTube Music (website) (wiki)
- PeerTube (website) and all its instances (open the website to know what that means!) (wiki)
- Bandcamp (website) (wiki)
- SoundCloud (website) (wiki)
- media.ccc.de (website) (wiki)
As you can see, NewPipe supports multiple video and audio services. Though it started off with YouTube, other people have added more services over the years, making NewPipe more and more versatile!
Partially due to circumstance, and partially due to its popularity, YouTube is the best supported out of these services. If you use or are familiar with any of these other services, please help us improve support for them! We're looking for maintainers for SoundCloud and PeerTube.
If you intend to add a new service, please get in touch with us first! Our docs provide more information on how a new service can be added to the app and to the NewPipe Extractor.
Description
NewPipe works by fetching the required data from the official API (e.g. PeerTube) of the service you're using. If the official API is restricted (e.g. YouTube) for our purposes, or is proprietary, the app parses the website or uses an internal API instead. This means that you don't need an account on any service to use NewPipe.
Also, since they are free and open source software, neither the app nor the Extractor use any proprietary libraries or frameworks, such as Google Play Services. This means you can use NewPipe on devices or custom ROMs that do not have Google apps installed.
Features
- Watch videos at resolutions up to 4K
- Listen to audio in the background, only loading the audio stream to save data
- Popup mode (floating player, aka Picture-in-Picture)
- Watch live streams
- Show/hide subtitles/closed captions
- Search videos and audios (on YouTube, you can specify the content language as well)
- Enqueue videos (and optionally save them as local playlists)
- Show/hide general information about videos (such as description and tags)
- Show/hide next/related videos
- Show/hide comments
- Search videos, audios, channels, playlists and albums
- Browse videos and audios within a channel
- Subscribe to channels (yes, without logging into any account!)
- Get notifications about new videos from channels you're subscribed to
- Create and edit channel groups (for easier browsing and management)
- Browse video feeds generated from your channel groups
- View and search your watch history
- Search and watch playlists (these are remote playlists, which means they're fetched from the service you're browsing)
- Create and edit local playlists (these are created and saved within the app, and have nothing to do with any service)
- Download videos/audios/subtitles (closed captions)
- Open in Kodi
- Watch/Block age-restricted material
Installation and updates
You can install NewPipe using one of the following methods:
- Add our custom repo to F-Droid and install it from there. The instructions are here: https://newpipe.net/FAQ/tutorials/install-add-fdroid-repo/
- Download the APK from GitHub Releases, compare the signing key and install it.
- Update via F-Droid. This is the slowest method of getting updates, as F-Droid must recognize changes, build the APK itself, sign it, and then push the update to users.
- Build a debug APK yourself. This is the fastest way to get new features on your device, but is much more complicated, so we recommend using one of the other methods.
- If you're interested in a specific feature or bugfix provided in a Pull Request in this repo, you can also download its APK from within the PR. Read the PR description for instructions. The great thing about PR-specific APKs is that they're installed side-by-side the official app, so you don't have to worry about losing your data or messing anything up.
We recommend method 1 for most users. APKs installed using method 1 or 2 are compatible with each other (meaning that if you installed NewPipe using either method 1 or 2, you can also update NewPipe using the other), but not with those installed using method 3. This is due to the same signing key (ours) being used for 1 and 2, but a different signing key (F-Droid's) being used for 3. Building a debug APK using method 4 excludes a key entirely. Signing keys help ensure that a user isn't tricked into installing a malicious update to an app. When using method 5, each APK is signed with a different random key supplied by GitHub Actions, so you cannot even update it. You will have to backup and restore the app data each time you wish to use a new APK.
In the meanwhile, if you want to switch sources for some reason (e.g. NewPipe's core functionality breaks and F-Droid doesn't have the latest update yet), we recommend following this procedure:
- Back up your data via Settings > Backup and Restore > Export Database so you keep your history, subscriptions, and playlists
- Uninstall NewPipe
- Download the APK from the new source and install it
- Import the data from step 1 via Settings > Backup and Restore > Import Database
Note
When you're importing a database into the official app, always make sure that it is the one you exported from the official app. If you import a database exported from an APK other than the official app, it may break things. Such an action is unsupported, and you should only do so when you're absolutely certain you know what you're doing.
APK Info
This is the SHA fingerprint of NewPipe's signing key to verify downloaded APKs which are signed by us. The fingerprint is also available on NewPipe's website. This is relevant for method 2.
CB:84:06:9B:D6:81:16:BA:FA:E5:EE:4E:E5:B0:8A:56:7A:A6:D8:98:40:4E:7C:B1:2F:9E:75:6D:F5:CF:5C:AB
Contribution
Whether you have ideas, translations, design changes, code cleaning, or even major code changes, help is always welcome. The app gets better and better with each contribution, no matter how big or small! If you'd like to get involved, check our contribution notes.
Donate
If you like NewPipe, you're welcome to send a donation. We prefer Liberapay, as it is both open-source and non-profit. For further info on donating to NewPipe, please visit our website.
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Privacy Policy
The NewPipe project aims to provide a private, anonymous experience for using web-based media services. Therefore, the app does not collect any data without your consent. NewPipe's privacy policy explains in detail what data is sent and stored when you send a crash report, or leave a comment in our blog. You can find the document here.
License
NewPipe is Free Software: You can use, study, share, and improve it at will. Specifically you can redistribute and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.