[Frotag]

IME newpipe breaks every few weeks or so, presumably because of some youtube change / obfuscation. Or at least that was the case a few years ago.

I've had more success hosting an invidious instance and using the materialious client for mobile. And a bonus is that it comes with sponsorblock built in.

https://invidious.io/

https://materialio.us/

[distances]

Not every week, more like a couple of times a year when YouTube makes some breaking changes.

Personally I take these periods as healthy time off from YouTube, so I'm no longer even annoyed by them.

[super256]

I found pipepipe to be more stable, break less and have more features.

https://pipepipe.dev/

[FireInsight]

How can it be more stable if it still uses NewpipeExtractor?

[_blk]

Absolutely but I stop YouTube consumption if it's not through NewPipe, so a little productivity boost here and there is not too bad ;)

[dyauspitr]

What’s the point of newpipe? You can block ads with ublock. You can block shorts with browser extensions. What other benefits does newpipe offer?

[kyleee]

I think that is overstating it, there has been one recent breakage and fix in the last few months or more roughly. It would be interesting to see it plotted out on a timeline though.

[jimlikeslimes]

I think there was a phase of repeated breakages a while back, but things seem to have stabilised.

Fixes are released quickly ime too.

[truckingthrow33]

I use it to mainly download videos, and that seems to break every few weeks. I just updated and it's fixed. Small price to pay.

[faust201]

A few years is different case. Invidious is also getting blocked easily. Are you running it now? If yes, then report.

[agile-gift0262]

I am running it, and I used to use NewPipe before. I honestly don't notice much difference in stability. In both cases I would experience issues every couple of months for a day or 2. As YouTube made some change and I need to upgrade the app or server to resolve it. I wouldn't say one is better than another. Both have different advantages and drawbacks that come mostly from the nature of one being an app and the other being a server+web

[1vuio0pswjnm7]

"IME newpipe breaks every few weeks or so, presumably because of some youtube change / obfuscation."

Same experience. I have a commandline program I wrote to retrieve YouTube download URLs many years ago. On average it has always been more reliable than Newpipe. It continues to work when Newpipe fails and I can fix it quickly when there is a YouTube change

However I noticed recently Newpipe, the original, not SponsorBlock, old version, no updates, had been going many weeks without failure. When it eventually failed I was able to get it working again immediately by simply changing the www.youtube.com IPv4 address

Will try this again when it fails the next time

[fuzztester]

Why did you think of changing the ip address?