Newpipe hasn’t worked on my Android for several days now. Has YouTube blocked the app, or did an update break it?
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Yes, and it has been fixed. Update to 0.27.1 at least
For those that don’t know, you can download the latest APK directly. It takes a while for new versions to make it to repositories and this lets you get it as soon as it’s ready.
Edit: someone pointed out that NewPipe hosts their own F-droid repository, so you can add that to F-droid to get faster updates more conveniently.
Or you use Obtainium.
Add the NewPipe repo to F-Droid.
I’ve been waiting for the 0.27.1 update on F-Droid and there has been nothing so far.
Did not know you had to add the New Pipe repo.
To be clear you do not have to add newpipes repo. If you do you are using f-droid only as a client, you are not sourcing it from f-droid.
If you want it at release, add newpipes repo. If you want it from f-droid wait a few days for them to build it.
TL;DR from their(newpipe’s) reddit:
Youtube did an update that added an additonal parameter to the calls, allegedly as an anti-bot tactic.Because of how it worked, it broke all of the various frontends, but Invidious based access still worked.
Thanks
I’ve had this problem too but the latest upgrade just fixed it. And yeah, I think it was Google’s doing and it’s not the first time, it’s a constant arm’s race between them and Newpipe programmers. And Ublock programmers. And Invidious and Piped programmers etc…
It’s not showing an update. Maybe I should just uninstall and reinstall. Thanks for the reply.
Try the developers fdroid repo, not the official droid repo. The updates take longer to get to the official repo
Thanks
I did that yesterday, didn’t fix it. I was able to got the update from Newpipe directly today but my Boo had it three days ago, he said he got it from GitHub? No idea how to do that but maybe worth a looksy.
They posted a release candidate that fixed the issue to Github first, then I picked it up from their site several days ago.
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It broke on ver. 0.27.0; it should be fixed on ver. 0.27.1.
You can also use FreeTube for Android, or Grayjay.
Both of them weren’t affected by the latest YouTube change.
I mean mine’s still freezes mid video from time to time, but that was a problem before 0.27.0 broke.
It’s working great again.
I reinstalled a few times the first couple days, but I must have done it just before the fix came out two days ago.
You can export your history and then import it after the reinstall.
Oh good call-out about the history
I really recommend Revanced or Revanced Extended instead.
As it uses the normal YouTube client but patched.
Just information for anyone who’s interested, use whatever works for you
Unfortunately proprietary and filled with Google trackers (Revanced is FOSS, but it uses the proprietary YouTube app)
