Subscribe to channels without making an account

[davidcollini]

Add ability to subscribe to channels without an account, but allow accounts to be made for data syncing

[mmjee]

Subscribing to accounts is difficult to do client-side, and would require two code paths i.e. one via the instance and one via local, and require sorting client-side of subscribed videos.

Perhaps it should generate a RSS URL for the channel. YouTube has a standard API for channel RSS feeds.

[moriel5]

Perhaps you can look at what Piped does for this?
Since this is already a feature there.

[zelosleone]

Can we get this already? The only reason i don't use piped-material is because of this, in normal piped you could even import channels via csv file!

[mmjee]

On 2/21/23 15:51, Denizhan Dakılır wrote: Can we get this already? The only reason i don't use piped-material is because of this, in normal piped you could even import channels via csv file!

This requires significant changes and increases complexity significantly, but I'll think about adding support when I have some time, perhaps this weekend. Additionally, in case you are afraid of managing username-password combinations (they are not particularly required to mean anything in Piped), I recommend using the new EDS with PBKDF branch (https://ngp.piped.১.net/), it'll handle automatically creating username-password combinations for discrete servers. Having accounts on Piped servers is very lightweight by nature. -- Regards,