While ANDROID v15 is mostly well for a shelves-based homepage, it is lacking two things.

• Verification badge on users (this is missing everywhere in the mobile app, except for comments)
• Moving thumbnails (this has no use in mobile, since you can't hover over the renderers, only tap them)

These missing features can be remedied by using the WEB v2 shelves endpoint, which can be accessed by modifying the protobuf data of a normal WEB v2 homepage continuation.

This gives you a shelves homepage in a rich grid format, which can be seen below rendered in Polymer.

It did that in Hitchhiker and in my opinion looks and feels way faster.

I have noticed that the YouTube Picker at the bottom doesn't work properly. Clicking on any of the options, it says loading for half a second and then disappears. According to Fiddler, this is because of picker_ajax, which doesn't exist. I assume you will implement this when you add more languages?

Back when, WEB v1 worked, I always got the videos I watched but after it stopped working and after the switch to ANDROID, I got irrelevant and old recommendations, such as cooking videos, meditation and things like that. There are some remotely relevant results but they never change and are scattered randomly.

Specifically for people who don't know how to use any of those tools. Ex: I don't know how to use Fiddler or mitmproxy or whatever it's called or setup the server for it in XAMP/WAMP.

So in terms of layouts, performance wise, the hitchhiker layout had much better performance compared to polymer/material. Reverting the layout with extensions got back the performance, though those are no longer available.

Does this project when it restores the layout improve the performance like extensions reverting the layout did? Or is this done in a way where that isn't possible?

Rehike uses requests youtubei/v1/browse with browseId "FEwhat_to_watch" for the home page, as does regular YouTube. In order to get the old homepage, it uses the client name WEB and version 1.0. This is the very client configuration that the real old YouTube layout was believed to use. However, as of the past month (April 2022), many people across related Discord servers have reported irregularities in being able to access it.

It seems that many people, typically those who access the site logged in, have an issue with this API failing to return.

As it stands, implementation of an alternative seems important.

WEB v1 is known to have issues, we need to find a better endpoint. TVHTML5 v6 looks promising.

I found the mitmproxy command to cause issues in the MacOS terminal. Use this to escape the special characters (!) :
mitmproxy -s YOUR_PYTHON_FILE.py --no-http2 --tcp \!\(www.youtube.com\)

Can Rehike support extensions that are affecting the main layout? like YouTube Downloaders, or for example "Enhancer for YouTube"?

Thanks to @YukisCoffee for noting this.

For Linux users: if SPF doesn't work for you, that's because you need the DOM extension. Follow the instructions and the comment below here to install it on ubuntu-based systems.

unsubscribe button does not work

https://i.imgur.com/Xhg2SZW.gif for reference

Occurs both signed in and out.
Response:

{
    "error": "Failed to get property at path onResponseReceivedEndpoints[0].appendContinuationItemsAction"
}

Videos such as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VD3lHKzMPs cause a fatal error, rather than rendering without metadata.

Additional checks must be implemented to ignore missing data, rather than crash on it.

• Live chat doesn't get properly funneled through, and thus does not load.
• Chat replay is hidden by default, and thus shows "Show chat replay" on the hide label, and "Hide chat replay" on the show label.
  
  

When attempting to change the comment sort, this happens.

It happens both signed in and out. I've tested, and this does not happen on new-mvc.

There's this userscript that bypasses age restricted videos and also that stupid ass age verification thing
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/423851-simple-youtube-age-restriction-bypass

Although it doesn't seem to work when I use ReHike so I have to go back to the new polymer layout for it to work. I think adding it as an option would work best.

YouTube stores shorts thumbnails in an actual 9:16 ratio. Hitchhiker has not been made to handle this aspect ratio,

Appearance in Rehike:

Appearance in Kevlar/Polymer:

How it should look in Rehike:

(For this screenshot, I corrected the thumbnail width, and applied width: 196px; display: inline-block; to the parent span.yt-thumb-simple.

Notice: Undefined property: stdClass::$videoId in B:\xampp\htdocs\views\utils\AndroidW2w15Parser.php on line 101

I'm assuming it's because it treats playlist renderers as normal videos and tried to get videoId, which doesn't exist.

Controller V1 is awful, and needs to be ridden of as soon as possible. Here's a list of pages still using Controller V1.

• /
• /results (Currently being updated)
• /feed/trending
• /feed/history
• /feed/guide_builder
• /watch_fragments2_ajax
• /comment_service_ajax Updated in 47e7c91
• /share_ajax
• /browse_ajax
• /related_ajax
• /rehike/version
• Resources under /rehike/static
• /forcefatal Updated in c846804
• Default case/404 page

protip: tjhis is a gif

Ag,

Sometimes, you need to dig deep within the search results to see the video that you're looking for. You will probably need a couple of "Load more" button clicks to find it. It seems that in Rehike, the button is absent. Adding it in the search results would save people a lot of searches.

Hey, I manage one of the instances of Invidious.
Due to your comment at https://www.reddit.com/r/oldyoutubelayout/comments/ub0usq/a_theme_for_invidious/i61vfz3/, I'd be curious to see if the ThickElf's prediction is true.

I personally deploy using Docker Compose. Any plan to release a docker-compose file?

The link just redirects to the current url you're on.

Different code formatting from one user to another can result in the diff checker picking up autoformatted code as differences, which we don’t want if we’re checking for diffs. I suggest a formatted being specified in CONTRIBUTORS.md to standardise formatting and prevent large diffs.

Thanks

rehike is so bug free am i right

Putting "live" in the place of the channel tab in the URL in Polymer, gives you a watch page of the user's current live stream.
For instance, if I was streaming, and I wanted easy access to my live stream, the URL would be https://www.youtube.com/c/aubreyREAL/live.

Minor bug, but maybe could be fixed with some innertube requests? Idk, just a small touch 🤷🏻‍♂️

This seems entirely random, and a quick refresh seems to fix it most of the time.

Is it plausible to have the YouTube API replace logging in?

Video

A few days ago I went to check the comments of a video but suddenly it just doesn't show anymore, even the loading spinner doesn't. This could definitely be an innertube issue.

THis error shows when there's a playlist or mix.

Also when a video in the playlist ends, it just loops the video and doesn't navigate to the next.

If a standard PHP exception is output, it has a tendency to push all of the contents of head to body. This has some pretty bad effects as a result.

A custom exception handler should be implemented that overrides this behaviour of PHP, bypassing this bug.

The Player does only show few buttons, not the ones like the options and full screen.

Trying to view the channel page of a channel that doesn't exist will crash Rehike and give these details:

Uncaught TypeError: ChannelUtils::getUcid(): Return value must be of type string, null returned in C:\xampp\htdocs\controllers\utils\channelUtils.php:17
Stack trace:
#0 C:\xampp\htdocs\controllers\channel.php(43): ChannelUtils::getUcid(Object(Rehike\ControllerV2\RequestMetadata))
#1 C:\xampp\htdocs\controllers\core\HitchhikerController.php(109): Rehike\Controller\ChannelController->onGet(Object(stdClass), Object(Rehike\ControllerV2\RequestMetadata))
#2 C:\xampp\htdocs\modules\Rehike\ControllerV2\GetControllerInstance.php(51): Rehike\Controller\core\HitchhikerController->get(Object(stdClass), '', Object(Rehike\ControllerV2\RequestMetadata))
#3 C:\xampp\htdocs\modules\Rehike\ControllerV2\GetControllerInstance.php(73): Rehike\ControllerV2\GetControllerInstance->_cv2WrappedCallControllerMethod('get', Array)
#4 C:\xampp\htdocs\modules\Rehike\ControllerV2\Router.php(204): Rehike\ControllerV2\GetControllerInstance->__call('get', Array)
#5 C:\xampp\htdocs\modules\Rehike\ControllerV2\Router.php(148): Rehike\ControllerV2\Router::pointerHandler('channel', 'get')
#6 C:\xampp\htdocs\modules\Rehike\ControllerV2\Router.php(25): Rehike\ControllerV2\Router::baseRequestMethod(Array, 'get')
#7 C:\xampp\htdocs\router_v2.php(27): Rehike\ControllerV2\Router::get(Array)
#8 C:\xampp\htdocs\index.php(45): require('C:\\xampp\\htdocs...')
#9 {main}
  thrown

Please fix this.

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In the recent new-mvc and exp-signin-rework updates the Load more button on homepage stopped working. When you click on it, it's blank.

Can the full sub count be added to Rehike? Thank you.

It seems that on the current master branch of Rehike, it thinks that I'm signed out. However the exp-signin-rework branch of this does show that I'm signed in because it shows my profile picture in the top right corner and the notifications bell. Video recommendations based on my account also work on that branch.

This could be an easy fix since I think it has something to do with cookies.

The title of this issue is self-explanatory. Let's say I'm using Rehike and I wanted to see my liked videos, but this is what I see:

Because the "Liked videos" tab in the sidebar is a playlist, it has the same rules as other playlists that exist. In this case, it loads the 404 page. This needs to be fixed.
I am using the exp-signin-rework branch.

I went to check the playlists of a channel, but it said there were none in Rehike. In normal YouTube, I am sure that there are playlists. Going to the direct playlist link gives an error message. I am sure there was a commit that showed experimental channel playlists, but it seems that doesn't work anymore.

If you are wondering, I use XAMPP.
Scenario 1:

Scenario 2:

Please fix this.