ajayk-01 / reactube

An alternative interface + downloader for Youtube made with React, Node, Invidious and youtube-dl

ReacTube

An alternative React based interface for YouTube.

This web app let's you search and stream youtube videos as well as download them in various qualities.

Link: https://reactubedl.web.app/

• Interface made with React.Js and ant design components.
• Uses Invidious-api for fetching search and trending results from YouTube.
• Downloads are handled by a Node server.
• The node server uses yt-dlp as a child process to fetch and send back the file to user.
• Logo designed by @GameGodS3

Requirements to host backend on heroku

• Node buildpack
• Python buildpack for youtube-dl child process.
• ffmpeg buildpack (youtube-dl uses ffmpeg to combine audio and video during high res video downloads)

Screenshots

Contributions are always Welcome!!

reactube's Issues

Taking too long to load

My experience is that it takes approximately 48 seconds for the homepage videos to appear. Until then, everything looks like this:

Maybe an issue with async calls?