My local YouTube proxy for GData apps just got an new update

NOW IT SUPPORTS ANDROID 2.3+

You can view full changelog and download latest release here: https://github.com/Basket5125/YoutubeLocalProxy/releases/

Also i've patched youtube 2.4.4 to work without root: https://nc1.truehosting.net/s/ztZNnM7W4nkHHw8

Version 4.3.9 can crash on some phones when trying to play a video, its GMS (Google Mobile Services) Authorization issue. I disabled play store and restarted phone and problem disappeard).

If you enjoy this project, please leave a star to let me know you like it.

Hi everyone! Thanks for waiting over the past week — the first release of my Android 4.1+ YouTube proxy is finally ready.

It revives old YouTube apps using Innertube. Basic features including video playback, search, channel uploads, playlists, comments, and related videos are working.

Descriptions are broken. Will fix in next release.

If you want most popular to work you need to put YouTube Data v3 API Key in settings (obtainable here: https://console.cloud.google.com ).

It works fully local so you don't need to worry about public servers or yt2009 instances.

This is an early release, so app may crash or work slow, some endpoints and playback formats are still limited.

• Source / instructions: https://github.com/Basket5125/YoutubeLocalProxy
• Release APK: https://github.com/Basket5125/YoutubeLocalProxy/releases

To use it you need either rooted phone and apk patched to localhost:80 or app patched to localhost:8080 if you don't have root (harder to patch).

You can download localhost:80 patched apks here (4.1.23 probably best choice): https://nc1.truehosting.net/s/qatQ7oxTM9kk3k7

Feedback and bug reports are very welcome!

Video playback it’s working, related videos, comments, base channel page. Only playlists, channel videos and categorized videos left to fully revive Gdata apps. It’s working 100% local so you don’t have to worry about yt2009 instance or rate limits. When this will be usable I will release GitHub repo for it.

So I recently returned to android 4.4.2 on my galaxy s4 and I had a problem, cause newpipe is not working on that old android version. I was thinking how can I solve this problem because I want to use original YouTube clients instead of custom ones like notpipe. I started making a really small app that it’s working like every old YouTube patch server or yt2009, but locally on your device. It’s not depending on any external instance, it’s calling directly YouTube so it’s working like you have a normal YouTube app on your phone. Because it’s working locally rate limiting is no longer a problem and also I will be able to add google account login on every version of GData YouTube apps (on 4.x only for you page probably will work cause it’s depending on gms but older versions will work perfectly). For now only working things are: registerdevice (required for app even start), region based most popular feed and proxy so if app is patched to localhost:80 it will just work. App will be android 4.1+
When app will be usable I will release GitHub repo for it.
Let me know what do you think about it :)

So as you may notice apps patched with my gdatav2.truehosting.net or invitube stopped playing videos.

This happened because YouTube started to kill last “normal” video/mp4 360p format (format 18) which was only one that has video and audio in one file. That means now there is no format available directly on google servers that contains video and audio so it can be played normally on legacy devices or via 2009 flash player.

I’m currently working on a modification that will allow YouTube 4.3.9 play HLS streams (thanks to ftde0 for idea) but it’s not that easy also there is chance that it will not work on android below 8.0.

For now if your device supports HLS you can use http://myoutube.truehosting.net which is using modified tuberepair server for video streams. It’s working smooth on galaxy s4 and s3 mini. Currently videos are only streamed in 1080p but soon I will implement option to specify quality in request url.

The HLS is working cause it’s just converting YouTube SABR fragments into HLS so this will work for a while and it’s not cooking servers.

PS: F**k YouTube for completely removing support for old devices

Just been using my s4 and I had random idea to check if gmail is sill working on older browsers and suprise when opened gmail and logged in it opened original legacy gmail web app from around 2014 it fully working just logo it’s replaced by new one

So there was a problem with invidious that made instances around the world just die. Problem was caused the youtube app version that invidious was making requests was cut off and I needed to wait for fix. Now all truehosting instances are up to date and working sorry for problem for anyone

Recently i found my old LG Optimus L7 (LG P700) and it has android 4.1.2 but i have a lot phones with that version so i wanted to downgrade it to stock 4.0.3 but every time I want to flash V10K_00.kdz file using this https://www.mediafire.com/download/fwrcd3pdj0svjtb/LG_Flash_Tool_2014.zip its was just working while then gave me this error

Upgrade error

WParam: 100

LParam: 1002

after clicking ok program crashed

Also tried LG Flash Tool 2014 but it just gave me error Please install CSMG B2C Client TOOL. Select Tool -> B2C Client Setup menu for normal flash flash window opened (all text was question marks) and then stoppen and was saying:

????? ? ??? ??? ? ??? ???? ??, ??? ??? ??? ? ????. (?? ??? ??? 'Emergency Mode'? ???? ??? ????.) ????? ? USB ????? ??? ???? ???? ??? ??? ? ????. ?? ???? ??? ???? ?? ? ? ??? ?? ???? ?? ???? ?????.

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Thanks anybody that will help :)

I’m currently working hard to add as many features as I can to my lightweight rust server that aims at reviving older gdata mobile YouTube apps but my skills in rust are at about 0 and working with AI it’s horrible experience.

So anyone who know a little of rust can help me adding new features or optimizing this project for now things left to fully revive GData v2 YouTube apps are:

- Add function to on server-side live mux YouTube separate audio and video files to play videos in HD
(Tried to do this but time was stuck at 00:00, you can’t seek and sound disappeared after around 1:40)
- Channelpage favorites, activity and playlists tab
- Add playlists support
- Fix XML structure to make channel name instead of id appear in 3.x and below
- add better support for region based responses
- optimize code for better performance
- fix description (I think invidious problem)

Next thing I want to add is protobuf but I totally not understand proto in rust.

Who have time and want to help reviving old YouTube apps can help me by creating pull requests

You can just also support me and show you want this project by leaving star on GitHub

GitHub link: https://github.com/Basket5125/yt-feeds-proxy

Public instance: http://gdatav2.truehosting.net

Thanks to all people that will help :)

Today I worked hard to make my innertube server have as many features as possible so I added more items on homepage, full channel support, and some smaller fixes so it’s now usable

Server url: http://youtubei.truehosting.net also supports https

You can patch innertube (YouTube 5+) apks same way as for yt2009

This server use mainly gdatav2.truehosting.net as information source

All patched apks: http://nc1.truehosting.net/s/PjqtjDCBe5WYgYM

Apks from photos are in this folder those are 5.18.5 and fullscreenogyoutube tested on android 4.4.2 and android 9

I hope you enjoy it :)

PS: It may be sometimes slow but I will optimize it over time my main goal is to implement innertube support to gdatav2.truehosting.net but I have problem with using protobuf in rust

Edit: sorry I forgot to upload 5.18.5 will be in folder today
Edit 2: 5.18.5 is now in folder