TeamPiped/Piped
Piped
Piped is a privacy-focused video streaming service and self-hosted media proxy. It allows users to watch video and audio content without advertisements, user tracking, or the requirement of official accounts.
The project utilizes a decentralized server network to distribute workloads and rotate outbound IP addresses, which helps bypass regional content restrictions and prevent provider blocks. It includes the ability to identify and skip sponsored segments within media files for a cleaner viewing experience.
The service provides a JSON API for third-party integration to fetch video streams, comments, channel information, and trending content. Users can manage personalized playlists and feeds while deploying their own private instances via a reverse proxy.
Features
- Privacy-Preserving Media Proxies - Provides a private interface to stream video and audio content without advertisements or user tracking.
- Video Streaming - Provides a privacy-focused platform for streaming video and audio without ads or tracking.
- Decentralized Instance Architectures - Implements a decentralized network architecture to distribute workloads and bypass regional content blocks.
- Media Proxies - Functions as a self-hosted proxy to control data access and bypass regional restrictions via distributed networking.
- Federated Sharing Protocols - Coordinates data and workload sharing across a decentralized network of independent server instances.
- Media Stream Parsers - Parses external page data to extract raw media URLs, bypassing advertisements and tracking scripts.
- Video Streaming Clients - Provides a privacy-focused interface for streaming media without advertisements or tracking.
- Private Hosting - Allows users to maintain data sovereignty by hosting their own private instances of the service.
- REST APIs - Exposes a REST-based JSON API for third-party clients to fetch video metadata and streams.
- Reverse Proxies - Supports self-hosting via reverse proxies to maintain user control over the server instance.
- Geographic Restriction Bypasses - Bypasses geographic content restrictions by routing requests through a network of distributed server instances.
- Outbound IP Rotation - Cycles server IP addresses periodically to prevent service disruptions caused by provider blocks.
- Proxy and Fingerprint Rotation - Automatically rotates outbound IP addresses to avoid rate limiting and blocks from content providers.
- Sponsored Segment Filters - Detects and allows skipping of sponsored segments within media files for a cleaner experience.
- Public API Definitions - Provides a public JSON interface for programmatic access to video and audio data.
- Media Data APIs - Exposes a JSON API for third-party applications to fetch video streams, comments, and channel information.
- Social Platforms - Efficient, privacy-friendly alternative frontend for YouTube.
- Video Streaming - Privacy-friendly, efficient YouTube frontend.
