NewPipe is essentially an unofficial Youtube client. It is a free and open source app available on the F-Droid software repository. It is an alternative to the official YouTube app and is available on the F-Droid repository or in the Github releases page.
NewPipe does not use the official YouTube APIs, but instead uses scrapes of websites of video and meta-data (such as likes, dislikes and views). It is done to lessen the amount of data shared to Google. This scraping tool is known as NewPipe-Extractor. It is also used in the free and open source app, SkyTube. NewPipe was originally released as Version 0.3 on 4 September 2015 and was created by Christian Schabesberger.
NewPipe is also a great way for users of Huawei phones or others who do not have access to Google Play Services on their phone. Also, the app is ad free, which is a huge complaint of users using YouTube.
But the app interface looks a little outdated compared to YouTube and isn’t as fluid. For this, developers are working on a new version with a cleaner and faster interface. For now, the company has come out with an update for NewPipe app with some new features, updates and fixes.
Software Details:-
Name – NewPipe
Download – Click Here
Following are the changes in the new update:-
Updates to the app –
New
- YouTube Mix support.
- Display additional info about search query, video creators or video content.
Improved
- Update Invidious URL list in the manifest.
- Use of user agent of DownloaderImpl also in ReCaptchaActivity.
Fixed
- Fixed crash that deleted video refreshing.
- Fixed blank ReCaptcha webview.
- Removed timestamp from share URL for all services except YouTube.
- Updated NewPipe’s website domain name.
Development
- Use GitHub actions as a CI instead of Travis.
- Fixed spelling mistakes in app.
- Use ContextCompat.getDataDir()
- Use of notification instead of a Progress Dialog in Mission Adapter.
- Use Activity Compat.recreate()
- Extract export database logic into own class.
- Use view binding in activities.
- Use Web View Client Compat.
- Use ServiceCompat.stopForeground()
Updates ot the Extractor –
New
- YouTube Mix support.
- YouTube stream segments support.
Fixed
- PeerTube Fixed related streams API URL when no tags.
